A good deal has been said already about the investigation by the European Parliament (EP) of the CIA ghost flights (aka "renditions") the "alleged" detention facilities in Europe, and the debate that in the end overwhelmingly approved (with 382 votes in favor, 256 against, and 74 abstentions) the findings of the last version of the report, drawn up by Italian Socialist MEP, Giovanni Claudia Fava. I find it remarkable how Dana Priest's article in the WaPo of November 2, 2005 resulted in such a high-profile parliamentary response, more than two years later. And of course, there's the very well-documented dKosopedia article, too.
But I thought it'd be good to offer a link to the official EP page showing the formal conclusion of that effort, as well as to the actual report itself, too (it's a PDF). There's a recap in hindsight also, prepared by the EP's press office, here.
Not that it makes the "non-binding resolution" (in US vernacular) any more than practically toothless, but it's not a bad precedent, that "allegations" of a mass-scale orchestrated human rights and international conventions breaching operation becomes the subject of parliamentary investigation. Relatively empty as the semi-accusation of European governments is in the face of undoubtedly interested cognitive dissonance, it's at least an example to consider for other matters - like instigating a needless war on false grounds, without a plan for either victory or "peace with honor", which wastes precious time and resources otherwise much better spent, and oh yeah: fuels the flame of extremist hatred to the point of recruiting thousands of potentially disastrously murderous zealots that might one day cross the ocean. To name just an example worthy of Congressional attention.
But that wasn't my point here; I'm simply pointing to the original report. It makes interesting reading material, if only for people curious about trans-Atlantic differences in political culture.
Edited to add: it's surprising to see the tide turning here in the US after several years. That article in the WaPo over two years ago set something in motion, that led the L.A. Times to go where hardly anyone probably would have dreamed of going: hunting down the pilots of those CIA flights. How the worm has turned, since the Administration exercised the "privilege" of selectively revealing the ID of a spook right under the cooperative and practically acquiescent noses of the press...