Sir, – Any objective reader of your extensive coverage of the CIA torture report ("CIA lied about 'brutal' interrogations that amounted to torture, says report", Front Page, December 10th) could only conclude that our various governments down through the years have been little more than bag carriers for our dear duplicitous old Uncle Sam and just as two-faced. Utterly shameful. – Yours, etc,
GEAROID KILGALLEN,
Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin.
Sir, – Mike Scott (December 9th) wonders what would come after the Government signed away sovereignty over cyberspace – “What next, our airspace?” I am sorry to have to inform him that this has long gone. With the permission of the Government but without any agreement from the Irish people (in fact with their strong disagreement), Shannon Airport has been used by the US as a staging post for whatever warfare and renditions it wishes to engage in, including the illegal and vastly counterproductive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And no authorities (apart from some ordinary citizens and one or two TDs) try to check what is in the aircraft. – Yours, etc,
ROB FAIRMICHAEL,
Belfast.