US says report on secret prisons is 'rehash'
The United States today dismissed a European Union report on alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe as “a rehash".
“We don’t see any new solid facts in it,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.
McCormack said US officials have not had the opportunity to thoroughly read the report, but said: “I think that we’re certainly disappointed at the tone and the content of it.”
The report by Swiss Sen Dick Marty found evidence that planes carrying terror suspects stopped in Romania and Poland and likely dropped of detainees there.
It offered no direct proof, however, that the CIA set up detention centres in Europe.
McCormack said that renditions, transfers of terror suspects to third countries, are legal and said the report suggested that intelligence activities were inherently bad.
He said international intelligence cooperation saves lives.
