Dining with Bush more critical than torture?

IN his article ‘Dáil must defend human rights and end CIA renditions debacle’ (Irish Examiner, February 13), Proinsias de Rossa MEP dashed the Government’s attempts to baffle the Irish people — and the rest of the world — about its complicity in US rendition flights.

The cynicism and cowardice of this secret support of torture manifested most starkly in the remarks of Tánaiste Michael McDowell in the Dáil, where he rejected calls for Irish condemnation of rendition practices as likely to lose the Irish an invitation to the White House St Patrick’s Day breakfast.

The Tánaiste, frankly, is a disgrace.