Invisible integrity - The Boston Globe

Invisible integrity - The Boston Globe: "This is despite Bush's demand for transparency from the North Koreas, the Cubas, and the Irans of the world. In 2002, he said; ''People who love freedom understand that we cannot allow nations that aren't transparent, nations with a terrible history, nations that are so dictatorial they're willing to starve their people, we can't allow them to mate up with terrorist organizations.' The current reports of secret prisons come a year and a half after Bush promised tough investigations over Abu Ghraib. ''Here in America, in our system,' Bush said, ''the judicial process will be fully transparent.'

The only thing transparent about the administration are its excuses. This week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice neither confirmed nor denied the existence of secret prisons in Europe for terror suspects. All she said was that intelligence gathered from interrogations has ''saved European lives.' Typical of the administration, she offered no proof how.

You would expect no proof from an administration that deceived the world about weapons of mass destruction, has not punished higher-ups for the prisoner abuse, and had Vice President Dick Cheney leading the fight to have the CIA declared exempt from laws banning torture. For four years of the so-called war on terror, Bush promised transparency. You can see right through"