So then exactly why haven't I seen this story anywhere but on this list of terrific blogs supporting Jack Idema? Have we accepted the narrative of the Government that Jack Idema is some sort of rogue independent?

This past week, there was a lot of buzz out there about Condi responding to the charges that the Washington Post first alleged that the CIA may have maintained secret prisons in Eastern Europe, culminating in a formal request by the European Union for an explanation.

This charge of the American government conducting something which is called "rendition" is applicable in the Idema case, and I don't see anyone raising any hell over it but me and my blogburst buddies.

Jack Idema was tortured by Afghans who were serving as proxies for the FBI--in a land where there is no law.

Now Afghanistan has laws, nobody abides by them. Karzai has signed agreements in order to receive the tremendous funds he's getting to "rebuild" Afghanistan.

The question still remains--why is our government leaving Jack Idema, Brent Bennett and Ed Caraballo hanging out to dry?

The Jack Idema case is the best one I can think of --of proof of exactly what the State Department is being charged with--"rendition". Only the tragedy of it is--these aren't terrorists without a country or a uniform--these are Americans who were proudly fighting the war on terror and looking to find Bin Laden.

Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern reportedly said after a Washington meeting with Rice that she expected U.S. allies to take it on trust that the U.S. does not allow abuses of prisoners.

We already know that it DOES--and apparently they don't care if they're AMERICAN PRISONERS who were dutifully and patriotically fighting the war on terror.

Now it's all well and good for the European public, secret prisons in themselves — and not simply the question of whether any abuses may have occurred in them — is a red line. But while Secretary Rice may be out to convince her European colleagues that they're better off letting well enough alone on the issue, now that it's being discussed in the public square, turning a blind eye may no longer be possible.

And in the case of Jack Idema, it's not even a "secret" prison--it's a well-known horrible place where thousands have died--Pol-e-charke prison. And let's not forget the even more horrible place-- Saderat--where they were horribly starved, beaten and tortured.

It's time to turn up the heat on all our elected representatives, because this absolutely should not stand. How on earth can someone remain in detention--remain in prison--after they've been declared innocent by the country where they're being held? This whole affair is so convoluted it's beyond description.

Contact your representatives and ask them why Idema is being held at Pulacharke when he's been declared innocent by the Afghans since at least December of last year.

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