A Look At Europe’s Reaction to the Bush Administration’s Covert Actions Overseas

In Britain – Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected calls on Wednesday for an inquiry into whether the CIA used British airports to transport detainees to secret prisons or to third countries where they have may have been tortured. Blair said,"I have absolutely no evidence to suggest that anything illegal has been happening here at all." Blair added that he didn’t want to "add fuel" to stories about the practice of "extraordinary rendition". Human rights groups have charged that hundreds of secret CIA flights have passed through Britain and other European nations. The British Association of Chief Police Officers, however, has begun an investigation after receiving information about certain flights that landed in British airports. Today we are going to look at the response in Europe to the recent disclosures that the CIA has been running a series of secret prisons overseas and the controversial U.S. practice of extraordinary rendition.

* Bernard Estrade, a chief editor at Agence France-Presse.

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