Reply #60: They are sawing the branch they are sitting on...

[tocqueville]

90% of the valuable intelligence the US is getting about Al Quaeda is coming from Europe. It's valuable because it's not extracted through torture but through infiltration and classical police investigation. Thus reliable. The Europeans expect the CIA to play by the rules for mutual benefit. The time when the CIA sneezed and Europe got a cold is over. It might be the contrary, they need us more than ever. So cooperating is the option, arrogance leads nowhere. But it's too hard for the cons to understand, they still believe they live in the 70s.

I just saw a TV report that told that the CIA flights went "unmarked" because they were private. The results of Rice's denial will be that the security check of chartered private flights will be increased. If the inspectors find a bound, blindfolded brown guy aboard, they will surely act.

Probably it will lead that the CIA flights are going to take another route : Latinamerica - Africa - Middle East - Asia. The short way over the pole is over.