According to a recent poll conducted by USA Today, 38% of Americans polled believe that a major investigation into whether some of the Bush Administration's policies in The War On Terror broke the law should be undertaken. 24% of those polled believe that an independent panel should investigate the matter, while 34% responded that no action should be taken. 3% of those polled had no opinion either way.

This comes prior to the release of information attained under freedom of information laws by Amnesty International, the Centre for Constitutional Rights, and the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice that confirms that the Department of Defense was complicit in the CIA's ghost rendition program...

"The groups received about 1000 documents from Defence out of more than 12,000 that have been identified as coming within their request but which are still being withheld by agencies including the CIA and the Department of Justice.

The groups said these documents confirm the existence of secret prisons at Bagram and in Iraq; affirm the Defence Department's co-operation with the CIA's "ghost" detention program; and show one case where Defence sought to delay the release of Guantanamo prisoners who were scheduled to be sent home by a month and a half in order to avoid bad press.

The document from the transport division recommended "hold(ing) off on return flights for 45 days or so until things die down. Otherwise we are likely to have hero's welcomes awaiting the detainees when they arrive."

The email also recommended transfer in a smaller, more discreet plane. Around that time a UN report on Guantanamo had been released.

The groups said the documents also revealed that Defence had a policy not to register prisoners with the Red Cross for 14 days and sometimes for 30 days in the interests of collecting intelligence and that this policy was known to the Joint Chiefs of Staff."