The CIA and the Case of Mistaken Rendition

Nearly a decade after a German man claimed he was abducted, spirited to Afghanistan and beaten in a secret CIA-run prison, lawyers for Khaled El-Masri appeared in a European court Wednesday hoping to make his case against the local government that allegedly handed him over to the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the first place. El-Masri, a German national of Lebanese descent, is suing the country of Macedonia in the European Court of Human Rights for its alleged role in his four-month...Full Story