Related to the previous post we find this article. In it, the EU official investigating the alleged CIA secret detention facilities has, to date, found no evidence that these centers actually exist. While there has been testimony consisting of unsubstantiated allegations, there has also been testimony refuting those allegations. Here's the killer: investigators can find no evidence that there were hundreds of CIA flights. These flights were supposed to have existed in the hundreds.
So there is a lot of he said/she said testimony. But the one bit of hard evidence that should have been easily proved cannot be confirmed. How exactly one can have hundreds of airplanes flying hither and yon and have no record of them with today's air traffic control system indicates someone is not telling the truth.
Since I find it hardly credible that an EU official would be actively trying to protect the US, given all their other recent stances, something about this whole story begins to stink.
In order for the stories to hold together, there had to be hundreds of flights. If the flights did not occur, the whole story is a house of cards.
UPDATE: Captain Ed is speculating (along with several others) that there is a chance the entire "secret prisons" story may have been an elaborate canary trap. If so, that would explain why the EU can't find evidence and it will make an awful lot of people looking very foolish indeed. Starting with the Pulitzer folks. Boy, that would be very, very funny.
UPDATE: Dean Esmay says the word: "traitor".
Update: Still more. This is VERY hot in the blogosphere right now.
