RENDITION FACTS SHORTAGE

Dick Marty's "investigation" into CIA rendition and detention is accurately characterized:

Mr MacShane, a British Labour MP and [Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe] member told the BBC World Service's Europe Today programme the report was made up of "fantasies".

He accused Dick Marty of "going round collecting newspaper clippings and producing extraordinary allegations against the Poles and Romanians, which frankly are not worth serious parliamentary discussion".

British Conservative MEP Charles Tannock is also unimpressed, describing Marty's report as:

"a lot of hearsay, a lot of accusations, and very little proof".

"It's been an exercise in bashing America," he said.

America bashing? Nah.