Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Is nothing sacred?

Extraordinary rendition is a freedom-loving process that involves outsourcing an uncooperative detainee's torture to someplace full of liberty like Saudi Arabia, where they are reputed to have an excellent staff of practitioners of torture to recommend them.

What you may not have heard is that for some reason the CIA made use of a jet of a minority partner of the Boston Red Sox, one Mr. Philip Morse, to transport their human cargo for treatment.

Story here

Confirmation here

I grew up hating the New York Yankees and we have come to refer to that organization as the "evil empire" in recent years, yet as far as I know not even George Steinbrenner is involved in a racket to profit from torture.

We live in a strange world when stories like this appear.

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