Don't kick the baby

Blame Canada, unless of course they can blame us more.

Hot on the heels of this weeks torture discussion the Bushies will have to face more music regarding their nasty habit of outsourcing torture to countries that aren't hampered by such inconvenient notions as the Geneva Conventions (that is, of course, until the administration clarifies Article III so as to avoid all the unnecessary plane fare, middlemen, and general outrage). Read on from the NYT:

A government commission on Monday exonerated a Canadian computer engineer of any ties to terrorism and issued a scathing report that faulted Canada and the United States for his deportation four years ago to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured.

The report on the engineer, Maher Arar, said American officials had apparently acted on inaccurate information from Canadian investigators and then misled Canadian authorities before flying Mr. Arar in an American government plane to Jordan and then transporting him to Syria. [...]

“The American authorities who handled Mr. Arar’s case treated Mr. Arar in a most regrettable fashion,” Justice O’Connor wrote in a three-volume report, not all of which was made public. “They removed him to Syria against his wishes and in the face of his statements that he would be tortured if sent there. Moreover, they dealt with Canadian officials involved with Mr. Arar’s case in a less than forthcoming manner.”

Funny, in a really sad sort of way, how we don't talk to our enemies until we need a little blood spilt.