US officials who discussed plans to ship terror suspects to foreign nations that practice torture could be prosecuted for conspiring to violate US law, an FBI agent warned superiors in a memo three years ago.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080105M.shtml

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Secret Memo—Send to Be Tortured
Newsweek

Aug. 8, 2005 issue - An FBI agent warned superiors in a memo three years ago that U.S. officials who discussed plans to ship terror suspects to foreign nations that practice torture could be prosecuted for conspiring to violate U.S. law, according to a copy of the memo obtained by NEWSWEEK. The strongly worded memo, written by an FBI supervisor then assigned to Guantanamo, is the latest in a series of documents that have recently surfaced reflecting unease among some government lawyers and FBI agents over tactics being used in the war on terror. This memo appears to be the first that directly questions the legal premises of the Bush administration policy of "extraordinary rendition"—a secret program under which terror suspects are transferred to foreign countries that have been widely criticized for practicing torture. [...] Read the rest at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8769416/site/newsweek/

Be sure to keep looking at AfterDowningStreet.org to get the latest news about the effort to get Americans to realize the truth behind the "intelligence" cited to support the Iraq war. There is interesting information on their web site about the problem they had with their email being blocked.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/794#comment-4344


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