Monday, January 24, 2005

The Cambone Operation: Covert Ops Redux: "Chris warns that further investigative reporting will reveal...

... covert operations sounding very much like the Phoenix Program of kidnappings (and perhaps also murder) of terrorist suspects in one country, and the transport of them to a third country where the actual torture interrogation is carried out presumably ‘free’ of even the presumed strictures imposed by Gonzales and his memo.

Calling the whole mess The Cambone Operation, Nelson reports that ‘the clandestine activities now coming to light may have been the result of decisions Secretary Rumsfeld made and set in motion, but that once in operation, Rumsfeld is kept clean of the details.’"

The whole post is good, I'm trying really hard not to copy it all..

(Via ArmsControlWonk.com.)