Officials pressed Germans on kidnapping by C.I.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/world/europe/09wikileaks-elmasri.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=officials%20pressed%20Germans&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:22 AM
Subject: re: Officials pressed Germans on kidnapping by C.I.A.
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To the Editor:

  If you or I were kidnapped and tortured while on holiday, we would expect our government to move heaven and earth to free us. If we were then dumped without identification or money by a rural roadside in a strange country, we would ask our government to get us home and to pursue the perpetrators. The German government kept faith with Khaled el-Masri. Now we learn that the Bush administration interceded to obstruct justice and to intimidate prosecutors from pursuing the kidnappers. These would be grave crimes if committed in the United States. Perhaps, for the U.S. government, they're just part of the game. Or perhaps our C.I.A. is not answerable to any law.

Barry Levine