CIA War of Words

abc News Blotter: CIA Blasts European Report on Secret Prisons

"The CIA's counterterror operations have been lawful, effective, closely reviewed and of benefit to many people -- including Europeans -- in disrupting plots and saving lives," the CIA spokesperson said in a statement to the Blotter on ABCNews.com.

This report also comes as:

26 Americans, mostly suspected CIA agents, went on trial in absentia in Italy for kidnapping a Muslim there in 2003 and flying him to Egypt as part of Washington's rendition policy.

I wonder how much is alleged purely to score political points.