"A European court issued a landmark ruling Thursday that condemned the CIA's "extraordinary renditions" programs and bolstered those who say they were illegally kidnapped and tortured as part of an overzealous war on terrorism.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a German car salesman was an innocent victim of torture and abuse, in a long-awaited victory for a man who had failed for years to get courts in the U.S. and Europe to acknowledge what happened to him."*
Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen, was illegally kidnapped, tortured, and sodomized for months by the CIA, and they later found they had taken the wrong man, that El-Masri was in no way a terrorist. Now, a court has found in El-Masri's favor. Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (Host, Turner Classic Movies), and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) break it down.
*Read more from Angela Charlton/ AP via Huffington Post:
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