The June 9 Seattle Post-Intelligencer contained an Associated Press release from Paris written by Elaine Gailey that stated:

"The CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate key terror suspects, shackling and handcuffing inmates, keeping some naked for weeks and reducing contact with the outer world to masked and silent guards, a European investigator said Friday.

"The CIA called the report `distorted,' but stopped short of denying the existence of prisons in the two countries."

Swiss Senator Dick Marty was asked by a human rights watchdog to investigate the activities of the CIA, when news of secret prisons emerged in 2005.  Senator Marty accused Germany and Italy of obstructing investigations into secret prisons.

For those who believe that any threshold will ever be reached in the realm of abject neoconservatism hypocrisy then cease your erroneous thought pattern.  At the very point when you are convinced that the very bottom has been reached you will be proven wrong.

Here is George W. Bush chasing around the world on another one of his global missions amid protests, with a robust effort occurring this time in Rome amid his continuing calls for globalization, which an informed world populace knows refers to enslavement of the many by and for the privileged few, such as the Bush family and their friends at Halliburton and Bechtel.

It is one thing for Bush to chase, but he does so much more.  The pious platitudes fall from his lips as he seeks to lecture the world on why it is essential to follow the pattern of ideal democracy that he champions.  Before Bush pulled into the G8 summit in Germany he gratuitously lectured President Vladimir Putin of Russia for not carrying out democratic reforms in that country fast enough.

A story yesterday in London's Daily Telegraph from correspondent Henry Samuel in Paris under the headline "CIA's `secret prisons in Europe'" contained the latest chapter in the Cheney-Bush "democratization" process that the neocon American administration hopes to help install throughout the world.