Dick Marty Quotes (10 Quotes)

The strategy in place today respects neither human rights nor the Geneva Conventions. The current administration in Washington is trying to combat terrorism outside legal means, the rule of law.

In the Abu Omar case is a crystal clear case of extraordinary rendition. Italian investigators built a net around him, and the Americans destroyed it all.

But we may well ask why it is only now that allegations concerning secret detention centers in Europe are triggering a proper debate and public shock.

These two facts are significant because they indicate methodology, logistics and personnel for this kind of operation operations which are totally contrary to the spirit and the text of the European convention on human rights.

It takes time to find justice, but I am optimistic.

Acts of torture or severe violation of detainees' dignity through the administration of inhuman or degrading treatment are carried outside national territory and beyond the authority of national intelligence services.

The proof is completely clear and the CIA has never denied it.

If a country resorts to the tactics of gangsters I say no. There are different elements that allow me to say that governments were aware of what was happening.

I find it hard to believe these actions could have taken place without a degree of collaboration or passivity by governments or services operating under them. I am thinking of the secret services.

But it is possible that there were detainees that stayed 10, 15 or 30 days. We do not have the full picture.