EU court rejects appeal over CIA ‘black sites’

The European Court of Human Rights announced on October 9 that it has rejected appeals lodged by Lithuania and Romania over its ruling they were complicit in a controversial programme of secret CIA detention centres on their territories.

My Comment: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT), including waterboarding (which still does not technically fit any rational definition of torture), were legal and approved when performed on a "handful of detainees," and yielded information that "saved many lives." This according to former US President George W. Bush in his memoir, "Decision Points." Donald Rumsfeld, former US Secretary of Defense, stated in his autobiography, "Known and Unknown," that no DoD personnel ever performed EIT or tortured any detainee. It always amazes me how international courts feel they have jurisdiction over US operations. It amazes me further how they consistently IGNORE the alleged crimes of the detainees in favor of their treatment, even in the face of knowing the detainees are unlawful combatants who are entitled to ZERO extra legal privileges, and retain no status with regard to the Geneva Conventions or Law of War.