More On CIA Camps!
No Virginia, these are not fun camps.
The BBC is reporting that any EU member State(country) may have its voting rights suspened if it is found to be in violation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights(well, that's not actually in the article, but it is the part of the law that the CIA detention centers would violate if they didn't adhere to the basic standards)
Here's the BBC link. As always, there is something more than a bit nefarious about the CIA's alleged conduct.
Here's the good stuff:
Oh my.
Can you read that?
We need more time to fabricate the least damaging response. Maybe even convert the Polish and Romanian camps into Best Westerns..Now that 'new Europe' is part of the West. If this wasn't so troubling, it would be comical.
How this gets spun should be deeply alarming.
The BBC is reporting that any EU member State(country) may have its voting rights suspened if it is found to be in violation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights(well, that's not actually in the article, but it is the part of the law that the CIA detention centers would violate if they didn't adhere to the basic standards)
Here's the BBC link. As always, there is something more than a bit nefarious about the CIA's alleged conduct.
Here's the good stuff:
[snip]...He said a suspension of voting rights would be justified if any country is found to have breached the bloc's founding principles of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.(much more at link)
Such a move would be unprecedented.
A diplomatic source said that to suspend a member state's voting rights in the Council of the European Union, the other 25 member states would have to vote unanimously to take such a step, which would be unlikely to happen in practice.
Mr Frattini said the Bush administration had asked for more time to deliver a response to the accusations after a senior commission official formally raised the issue on a visit to Washington last week.
"Right now, there is no [US] response," he said.
The allegations that the CIA held al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons in Eastern Europe were first reported in the Washington Post on 2 November.
According to civil liberties group Human Rights Watch, the jails are based in Romania and Poland.
Mr Frattini said Romania's Interior Minister, Vasil Blaga, told him there were no such prisons in his country.
The justice commissioner said it was "very, very important to get the truth", but he cautioned that it was "impossible to move only on the basis of allegations"...[snip]
Oh my.
Can you read that?
We need more time to fabricate the least damaging response. Maybe even convert the Polish and Romanian camps into Best Westerns..Now that 'new Europe' is part of the West. If this wasn't so troubling, it would be comical.
How this gets spun should be deeply alarming.
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