Jack Attack

Jack Straw enjoys a 'personal request' from a junior White House advisor

So, our old chum Jack ‘Jet Set’ Straw knows nothing about CIA flights transporting Terror Suspects through the U.K.
His now famously selective memory obviously needs a little jogging, or at least a gentle stroll. The Clinton administration asked (according to ‘Serpent’ Straw) asked three times for such rendition to take place. BTW – I’m with Sandi Toksvig on this, when she asked ‘Isn’t rendition that bobbly stuff you used to put on walls in the 70s?’
Maybe he's trying to put into practise (or indeed re-promote) his moving text given to the Prison Reform Trust 'Making Prisons Work', assuming, of course, that the new edition includes the sub-header 'Well, Secret Ones For Your Politically Expediant Allies, at least'
Meanwhile, the ACLU in the U.S. says "the [CIA] has broken both US and international law." - It is acting for a man allegedly flown to a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan.
Let’s see how that little gem of a case works out.
Meanwhile it would seem that the Blair/Straw/Rest of the Cabinet brown-nosed stance to the Bush administration and their catalogue of ongoing atrocities in their Guantanemo Bay illegal prison in Cuba, torturing at Abu Graib, etc etc etc are now keen to go into major damage limitation on the evidently thorny (for them) topic of extraordinary rendition. Condo-Leaser Rice has been dispatched over to Yoorp to play the bully boy to EU countries and reminding them of their duty to support the ‘war’ on terror.

But Straw is by no means out of the woods yet. Oh no. Diego Garcia is going to be troubling the Janus Straw in the not-too-distant, of this we can be sure.
It would seem that, according to the Guardian:

“Straw is also facing calls to allow MPs and human rights groups access to Diego Garcia, the British island in the Indian Ocean being used as a US military base. It has long been suspected that the island has been used to hold or transfer terror suspects to secret US jails."

And as if this isn’t enough to keep the little poodle busy, one of his Ambassadors has fucked up in the diplomacy stakes, this time it’s on Poland.

Whheeeeeee! Watch him spin his way out of this one. The twat.