Patrick Leahy slams Gonzales over rendition, torture [VIDEO]
By Joshua Holland
Posted on January 26, 2007, Printed on February 13, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/47276/patrick_leahy_slams_gonzales_over_rendition%2C_torture_%5Bvideo%5D
This is what oversight looks like, courtesy of Senate Judiciary chair Patrick Leahy.
The clip begins with some background so if you're familiar with the case of Maher Arar -- the Canadian citizen who was stopped at JFK airport, sent to Syria to be tortured and later found to be completely innocent -- skip the first 2:40 in the video, to 4:27 (counting down) ...
Today, Arar got a formal apology from the Canadian government, along with $10.5 million in damages.
Joshua Holland is a staff writer at Alternet and a regular contributor to The Gadflyer.
