I don't know if you have ever actually lived in America, but they have far too many rights. So many it is too the point of harming the American society. If you can afford a good enough lawyer, and if you can get people on your side, you CAN get away with murder. You can get away with anything. If they have somebody that can give them some good information, that persons rights get in the way. Hypothetically the CIA could have a known terrorist in their hands, one who has information that could save the lives of a good number of people, but because of his rights there is no way to get it out of him. Of course they do things in secret, the average Joe can't stand the thought of violence outside of the context of video games, TV and movies. Violence is sometimes a necessary evil, it always has been, now we are just living in an overly sensitive age.

Quote from Arnie.d:
"It gives a very wrong message when you want to spread democracy and justice and at the same time having secret prisons and denying your prisoners the justice system you want to spread."

It is something very different. It isn't even comparible. It isn't the American justice system they are trying to spread, and even if it is, this doesn't even add up. I promise you a "secret prison" in America and a "secret prison" in Iraq, Iran, Afganistan, and so on, are very different things. The Americans don't just throw somebody into their secret prisons because somebody disagreed with the President. It is not quite as menacing as you seem to think it is, but more menacing than the Americans or Eurpeans can handle.