What Are We? Turkey?

From The Human Rights Watch website:

"High-Level “Ghost Detainees” in Prolonged Incommunicado Detention

As this report details, the CIA is holding a number of “ghost detainees” in prolonged incommunicado detention. The most sensitive and high-profile terrorism suspects have been detained by the United States in “undisclosed locations,” presumably outside the United States, with no access to the ICRC, no notification to families, no oversight of any sort of their treatment, and in many cases no acknowledgement that they are even being held.

Human Rights Watch has pieced together below information on eleven such detainees who have “disappeared” in U.S. custody, though there may be more. They have been apprehended in places such as Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates. Some were captured by the United States, and some were turned over to the United States by its allies. Almost all are allegedly leading members of al-Qaeda. Many are reported to have been tortured or mistreated in custody. Some are said to have provided valuable intelligence, some to have lied. The United States has acknowledged the detention of many, but not that of others. In each case, however, the United States has not only failed to register the detainees, but has also refused to disclose their fate or their whereabouts and thus removed them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time."

How can we begin to claim superiority over so many other countries? Money does not buy happiness, intelligence or ethics.