Rendition: Update

Well, the Guardian (UK) has a few new details about the CIA policy of rendition. The investigator, Dick Marty, in his report said, as the Guardian summarizes:

CIA prisoners in Europe were apparently abducted and moved between countries illegally, possibly with the aid of national secret services who did not tell their governments

So the government denials throughout Europe of involvement in "extraordinary rendition" could have been genuine and still be consistent. It also poses a fresh new list of questions for governments as to why they allowed their security services to lie to them about cooperation with the CIA. There is also a warning that countries must investigate these allocations or face being in violation of the U.N. Convention on torture:

The senator acted as British MPs and peers were told by an international lawyer that their government would break the law if it did not investigate allegations that the CIA transferred terrorist suspects via Britain to secret camps where they may have been tortured. "Credible information suggesting that foreign nationals are being transported by officials of another state, via the United Kingdom, to detention facilities for interrogation under torture, would imply a breach of the [UN torture ] convention and must be investigated," James Crawford, professor of international law at Cambridge University, told the all-party parliamentary group on extraordinary rendition.