De Rossa: Ireland complicit in CIA torture operations

IRELAND is complicit in CIA torture operations, Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa warned last night.

He attacked the Government’s “arrogant” dismissal of a Council of Europe probe into American extraordinary rendition flights which named the Republic as one of 14 countries helping the US transport individuals to secret prisons.

The report was compiled by Swiss senator Dick Marty who said Ireland had “colluded” in the practice where people the CIA believed may have terror links are transported to a third country where they face torture.