Patrick Leahy slams Gonzales over rendition, torture [VIDEO]
By Joshua Holland Posted on January 26, 2007, Printed on November 23, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers//47276/
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.
