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CBS and ABC both covered revelations about the Central Intelligence Agency. ABC had Brian Ross follow up on his original reporting about the CIA's secret torture prisons in Poland and Romania with the investigation by the Council of Europe's human rights monitors into "secrecy, cover-up and dishonesty" by high-level European officials. CIA planes apparently filed "phony flight plans" from Afghanistan to Scotland and then diverted over eastern Europe to land its captives at the airfield prisons. There they were subjected to "techniques tantamount to torture." Ross reported that the prisons were closed 18 months ago and their inmates were transferred to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. He added that the CIA "dismissed" the European report as "biased and distorted" but "did not specifically deny the central allegations."
From London, CBS' Richard Roth covered the start of a trial in Italy of 26 alleged CIA spies for the abduction of the Moslem cleric abu-Omar from a street near his mosque in Milan. The imam claims he was flown to Egypt, imprisoned for four years and tortured. The accused spooks have refused to attend their own trial so "the courtroom is lined with empty cages." Roth added that a second CIA trial is scheduled for Germany where 13 agents stand accused of the kidnapping of Khaled al-Masri. He claims he was "blindfolded, drugged and flown to Afghanistan" before being released with the explanation that his abduction had been "a mistake."
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