US Covered Up Wrongful Kidnapping and Torture

This “rendition” resulted in torture of an innocent man, as part of a program whose very existence is denied by Stephen Hadley on the same day this newspaper article comes out. Once again, as with the story of US paid propaganda in Iraqi newspapers, the timing could not be worse for Bush.

The CIA inspector general is investigating a growing number of what it calls “erroneous renditions,” according to several former and current intelligence officials.

One official said about three dozen names fall in that category; others believe it is fewer. The list includes several people whose identities were offered by al Qaeda figures during CIA interrogations, officials said. One turned out to be an innocent college professor who had given the al Qaeda member a bad grade, one official said.

“They picked up the wrong people, who had no information. In many, many cases there was only some vague association” with terrorism, one CIA officer said.