Oh, so you knew about those secret CIA torture prisons all along?

This picture is of a man about to be waterboarded. Waterboarding is a very old torture technique, where you are drowned and revived – it is perfectly ‘legal’ as far as Bush is concerned. The problem with torture of course is that anyone of us, tortured long enough, would happily sign a confession saying you were Osama Bin Laden’s love child and because you are in a secret CIA prison with no rights, Bush’s assurances that the CIA torture staff will revive you don’t seem all that reassuring after all. That so many European countries were aware of what was being done on their soil and lied about it takes all those self righteous claims that European Foreign Policy would be better than American Foreign Policy and drowns them.

Nations 'hid truth' about CIA prisons
PARIS - European countries - including Britain - and senior European Union officials have come in for heavy criticism for concealing the truth and obstructing an investigation into the transport and illegal detention of prisoners by the CIA.

A draft report from the European Parliament deplores the attitude of the British Government, attacks the EU's foreign policy spokesman, Javier Solana, and complains of a lack of co-operation from many European countries.

The document also said that Nicolo Pollari, former head of Italy's Sismi intelligence service, had "concealed the truth" when he told a European Parliament committee in March that Italian agents had played no part in the CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric.

The Italian secret service played an active role in the abduction and it was "very probable" the Italian Government knew of the operation, the report concluded.

While the report, drawn up after 130 hearings over 10 months, reveals little new about the existence of secret CIA prisons, it is comprehensive in its criticism of those it believes have not told the truth.

In a verdict that could prove damaging for the EU's foreign policy chief, the document expresses its "profound concern with regard to the omissions and denials which resulted
from the statements made in front of the temporary committee by the secretary general of the council, Javier Solana".