G. Frink's

British-born human rights organization Reprieve has detailed evidence that extraordinary rendition continues and may involve use of prison ships -- a practice that would have infuriated the Founding Fathers.

The Founding Fathers had not forgotten that more Patriots died under horrible conditions in 16 or more British prison ships anchored in New York Harbor than in all of the Revolutionary War battles combined.

Those floating Revolutionary War hell holes were an expedient adopted when land-based prisons overflowed, whereas to would appear that Bush's prison ships, like the system of secret prisons Bush claimed to have shut down in late 2006, is secrecy.

Although the charges come forward amid the din of other news, they will not be readily dismised and forgotten. Reprieve, founded in 1999 by human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, makes the charges by way carefully documented reports, which offer evidence that prison ships have been used and are in use within and outside of the territorial waters of Diego Garcia. That Indian Ocean atoll is a British territory. As a result, the reports have added fire to debate over possible complicity by British officials.

Reprieve’s Director, Clive Stafford Smith, argues that:

The US administration chooses ships to try to keep their misconduct as far as possible from the prying eyes of the media and lawyers.

Bush administration behavior thus far, and Republican failures to press him on his misleading statements, suggests that we aren't likely to learn the full truth until a new, Democratic president is securely installed in the White House.