CIA Accused of Violating International Law

The head of a European investigation of alleged CIA prisons on the continent accused the United States of violating international human rights law in its war on terrorism.

Dick Marty, leading the probe for the Council of Europe, said there was no question that the CIA was undertaking illegal activities in its transportation and detention of terrorist suspects.

"The strategy in place today respects neither human rights nor the Geneva Conventions," Marty said at a news conference in the Swiss town of Burgdorf.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the United States acts within the law.