Senate to investigate rendition abuses

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Senate to investigate rendition abuses
James Sturcke
Tuesday November 14, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

Abuses carried out under the CIA's secret programme of extraordinary rendition are to be investigated by one of the Senate's most powerful committees, it emerged today.

The new chairman of the Senate armed services committee, the Democratic senator Carl Levin, revealed that he was "not comfortable" with the rendition system and said it was making the US less secure.

The extra-judicial programme has seen untried criminal suspects rounded up by CIA operatives in more than a dozen countries and sent to third states for interrogation. Some captives have allegedly been snatched off the streets and suffered torture in detention.

Asked whether he would investigate the renditions programme, including the secret prisons and missing detainees, Mr Levin replied: "Yes. Yes, yes and yes."

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[yellowcanine]

1. Thank God for Macacca.

[texpatriot2004]

2. I am not comfortable with it either and I agree it makes us less

secure.