<div dir="ltr"><div>I read the story at the website... Given current erosion of constitutional rights both from the war and drugs and post 9/11 legal changes, I'm surprised <em>Melissa Byrne was not subjected to even worse treatment.</em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><em>Consider this story:</em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><em><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/09/innocent-man-rendered-syria-held-and-tortured-one-year-blame-canada/">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/09/innocent-man-rendered-syria-held-and-tortured-one-year-blame-canada/</a></em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><font size="4">Innocent Man Rendered to Syria, Held and Tortured for One Year  (Blame Canada?)</font><br></div><div><p>Closing (well, except for the well-deserved lawsuits I presume) another dark chapter in the war on terror, Canadian citizen Maher Arar has been completely cleared by a Canadian judicial commission. In a 822-page report, the commission, lead by Justice Dennis O’Connor, ripped the Mounties apart for giving U.S. authorities erroneous and inflammatory “evidence” against Arar, which led to his being detained during a stopover in JFK airport, rendered to Syria, where he was held and tortured for one year.</p><p>And let’s be clear what we mean by torture here. This isn’t just sleep deprivation. This is a Canadian computer consultant returning from a family vacation who, with no ability to access the “evidence” against him, gets bundled off to Syria and <a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/41490/"><font color="#000080">beaten with electrical cables.</font></a></p><p>---------------------------------------</p><p>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<em><br></em></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Debi Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Debismith@moscow.com" target="_blank">Debismith@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/trump-towers-protest-secret-service-political-operative-questioned-20170823.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.philly.com/philly/o<wbr>pinion/commentary/trump-towers<wbr>-protest-secret-service-politi<wbr>cal-operative-questioned-<wbr>20170823.html</a><br>
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