The European Union And Extraordinary Renditions

Lost and forgotten amidst the current and hysterical pantie-wringing over unknown 'secret prisons' is a nifty little tidbit.

EU concealed deal with US to allow 'rendition' flights

Uh-oh. Brussels, we have a problem here.

The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by the CIA.

The EU agreed to give America access to facilities - presumably airports - in confidential talks in Athens during which the war on terror was discussed, the original minutes show. But all references to the agreement were deleted from the record before it was published.

So-o-o, info about a 'secret memo' surfaces in 2005. In 2007, an 'investigator' from a professed neutral country - that was in fact complicit with Nazi Germany - pontificates, sans substantiation, that there are/were 'secret prisons' in Poland and Romania.

Just as Switzerland knew nothing about Nazi gold, mein herr?