Rice and the administration would like to just let this one slip by and say "oops" but with the lawsuit now being filed in US courts, this is not going away. Khaled al Masri was abducted and tortured because someone in Langley "had a hunch" and his name was the same as a 9/11 terrorist. In the UK, criticism is mounting there as well.
And in London, the former Law Lord and judge Lord Steyn said that "if British authorities knew the nature of these flights they would be guilty of war crimes".