BUSH HANDS PEOPLE OVER TO BE TORTURED | Reuters.com

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Bush administration gave the CIA extensive authority to send terrorism suspects to foreign countries for interrogation just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

The newspaper said President Bush signed a still-classified directive that gave the CIA broad power to operate without case-by-case approval from the White House in the transfer of suspects -- a process known as rendition.
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A separate report by CBS's "60 Minutes" quoted a former Swedish diplomat who said suspects were stripped, shackled and drugged by masked men before being flown to Egypt, where they were subjected to "electric torture."
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"Craig Murray, the former British ambassador in Uzbekistan, told CBS that Uzbek citizens, captured in Afghanistan, were flown back to Uzbekistan, where torture techniques include boiling body parts. Tashkent denies it uses systematic torture."
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The Bush administration has publicly said the United States did not hand over people to be tortured.