Today, in the course of investigating another story I came across this
headline in The Independent online edition: Britain named for colluding in US rendition flights
The story is about an investigation by Swiss MP Dick Marty, for the Council of Europe, about European countries involved in aiding the US in rendition flights.
More on the flip
A preliminary report by Mr Marty earlier this year said European governments were almost certainly aware of the CIA's secret prisoner flights via European airspace or airports.
Now, at the end of a seven-month inquiry, the final report says it is now clear that "authorities in several European countries actively participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities".
But back to Poland. Along with Romania it stands accused of hosting black sites where it is alleged prisoners' human rights are not protected.
Both countries have denied involvement but Marty contends
There were "corroborated facts" strengthening the presumption that landing points in Romania and Poland were detainee drop-off points near to secret detention centres, said the report.
Today Mr Marty, unveiling the details in Paris, commented: "Even if proof, in the classical meaning of the term, is not as yet available, a number of coherent and converging elements indicate that such secret detention centres did indeed exist in Europe."
Those elements warranted further investigation, he added.
Mr Marty said he used evidence from national and international air traffic control authorities, as well as sources inside intelligence services, including in the United States, to compile a detailed picture of a global system of secret detentions and unlawful transfers - including new analysis revealing what he called "rendition circuits".
Seven countries were named in the report as "ignor[ing] them knowingly or did not want to know" about the renditions flights.
They are the UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Seven other unnamed countries acted "actively or passively", in the detention or transfer of unknown persons.
At least 100 people are believed to be in these prisons. The US has not denied the existence of renditon but has denied it is to allow the use of torture or to place prisoners beyond the reach of western human rights standards.
[Update] Smintheus wrote about this story yesterday on his/her blog. His/her posting focuses on the Guardian story's angle.