However Bush is trying to justify the Patriot Act, if it stands on the false mission and vague definition to terrorize our own citizens, it has only the way to slip off to the "extraordinary rendition".
We had Ab Ghraib, we had Gitmo, and now we have 'coffin-size dungeon' in Syria.
Yes, it's in Syria, not in Iraq or Israel. The neighbor of "axis of evil," SYRIA.
Another unbelievably un-American repetition was made.
What will our 'Mr. President' excuse this time?
Wait for the voices from Republicans; McCain, Warner, Spector -- and of course from Reid, Murtha, Kennedy, Biden.
Anxious to hear the outrage of K.O., Wolf, Lou Dobbs, Anderson, and other talking heads.
Finally the turning wave has arrived.
Excerpts from the article by Doug Struck, Washinton Post | Sept. 19, 2006
"Panel: Canadian Tortured in Syria Was Falsely Accused" via MSNBC.com
TORONTO, SEPT. 19 -- Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday.
The report, released in Ottawa, was the result of a 2 1/2-year inquiry that represented one of the first public investigations into mistakes made as part of the United States' "extraordinary rendition" program, which has secretly spirited suspects to foreign countries for interrogation by often brutal methods.
The Inquiry, with focused on Canadian intelligence services, found that agents who were under pressure to find terrorists after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, falsely labeled an Ottawa computer consultant, Maher Arar, as a dangerous radical. They asked U.S. authorities to put him and his wife, a university economist, on the al-Qaeda "watchlist," without justification, the report said.
The detained conditions were far-fetched terrorism against humanity, it's un-excusable and unforgivable.
Arar, now 36, was detained by U.S. authorities as he changed planes in New York on Sept. 26, 2002. He was held for questioning for 12 days, then flown by jet to Jordan and driven to Syria. He was beaten, forced to confess to having trained in Afghanistan -- where he never has been -- and then kept in a coffin-size dungeon for 10 months before he was released, the Canadian inquiry commission found.
O'Connor concluded "categorically there is no evidence" that Arar did anything wrong or was a security threat.
It seems that thousands of more false accusations and further renditions must have done.
It's time to call back the normalcy and intelligence in the legal procedures instead of paranoidal histeria.
Since Sept. 11, the CIA, working with other intelligence agencies, has captured an estimated 3,000 people in its effort to dismantle terrorist networks. Many of them have been secretly taken by "extraordinary rendition" to other countries, hidden from U.S. legal requirements and often subject to torture.
Those renditions are often carried out by CIA agents dressed head to toe in black, wearing masks, who blindfold their subjects and dress them in black. The practice is generating increased opposition by other countries; Italy is seeking to prosecute CIA officers who allegedly abducted a Muslim cleric in Milan in February 2003, and German prosecutors are investigating the CIA's activities in their country.
Although details of the renditions and the destinations of those held are secret, President Bush has confirmed the existence of CIA-run prisons throughout the world. Some of the subjects of renditions have been held in those prisons.
NOTE: Please correct any mistakes and errors, since I'm Japanese native.