'Erroneous renditions'

Dana Priest in the Post:

The CIA inspector general is investigating a growing number of what it calls "erroneous renditions," according to several former and current intelligence officials.
One official said about three dozen names fall in that category; others believe it is fewer. The list includes several people whose identities were offered by al Qaeda figures during CIA interrogations, officials said. One turned out to be an innocent college professor who had given the al Qaeda member a bad grade, one official said.

Whole thing. This practice should be curtailed. We can't have the CIA abducting innocent people and bundling them off to be tortured until they rat out some other innocent victim. It's counterproductive, regardless of whether the spies think it's "fun." And one of the victims, Khaled Masri, the German the CIA erroneously bagged in Macedonia and shipped to Afghanistan before learning they had the wrong guy, is about to sue our ass in federal court this week. He's likely to become a rich man pretty soon, because the feds won't want a trial to occur.