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U.S. Pressured Germany Not to Prosecute CIA Officers for Torture and Rendition

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 29, 2010.  The Bush administration pressured Germany not to prosecute CIA officers responsible for the kidnapping, extraordinary rendition and torture of German national Khaled El-Masri, according to a document made public Sunday night by Wikileaks. The document, a 2007 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, describes a meeting during which the then-deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Germany, John M. Koenig, urged German officials to “weigh carefully at every step of…

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