EU inquiry may call Cheney

[emad]

Nicholas Watt in Brussels
Friday January 27, 2006
The Guardian


Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the most hawkish members of the US administration, may be invited to appear before a European parliamentary committee investigating allegations of "extraordinary rendition" of terrorist suspects by the CIA.

Sarah Ludford, a London Liberal Democrat MEP and vice-president of the committee, said she saw no reason not to invite the US vice-president and the defence secretary. "I'm sure they would be very welcome and they would be heard with great interest - or Condoleezza Rice perhaps?"

Lady Ludford admitted that the parliament had no powers to summon members of the US administration: "Our only power is political embarrassment with governments that are reluctant to cooperate."

The investigation is the second European inquiry into allegations that CIA agents picked up terrorist suspects in Europe and flew them to secret detention centres on the continent and elsewhere. Dick Marty, a Swiss senator leading an inquiry by the Council of Europe, is expected to be one of the first witnesses to be asked to appear before the MEPs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1696016,00.html

[DemInDistress]

1. WILL HE HAVE TO TAKE AN "OATH" TO TELL THE TRUTH

ROTF..CHENEY SWEARS..

sorry for the caps but I'm a mad angry NYC resident today

[emad]

2. Maybe yes, same kind that George Galloway took in front of the

Senate Committee...

[Tight_rope]

3. Those Chicken hawks RummytheDummy and Big Dick will not go!

Those ASSHOLE will find a way to avoid having to go!

[enid602]

4. Cheney

Cheney's up for indictment in France for money-laundering and bribery (link: http://www.alltoohuman.org/blogarchive/000129.html), so it's a safe bet he won't be going anytime soon.

[Moderator]

5. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2066385