British police find no evidence to support CIA flights claim

British police say they have found no evidence to support claims CIA planes transporting terrorism suspects to face possible torture in secret prisons in Europe landed illegally at British airports.

but here's what interests me:

Liberty questioned the timing of the police announcement, released on the same day a European investigator said he had proof Poland and Romania hosted secret CIA prisons.

"When politicians spin it is disappointing," said Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti.

"When police engage in the same activity it is rather more dangerous."

Swiss senator Dick Marty said on Friday top al Qaeda suspects were interrogated using methods akin to torture in Polish and Romanian prisons, in a report for the Council of Europe human rights watchdog.

He said US intelligence and other sources told him the two countries hosted the jails under a CIA program, created by President George W Bush's administration after 9/11, "to 'kill, capture and detain' terrorist suspects deemed of 'high value."'

In an earlier report last year Marty named Britain as one of a number of countries that provided refueling stopovers for flights involving the unlawful transfer of detainees.

note regarding poland: its president says he wants US interceptor missiles based there.

or should we call him the polish poodle?