In Germany Thursday, a parliamentary inquiry heard new evidence the government failed to take action upon hearing Khalid el-Masri had been kidnapped and handed to the CIA. El-Masri is the German citizen who was kidnapped and held in a secret prison in Afghanistan, where he says was repeatedly beaten and drugged. He was eventually released after his captors realized they had the wrong man.

• Wolfgang Neskovic of Germany’s Left Party: “Today’s examination was another piece in the puzzle that the German government’s claim it had only heard of el-Masri’s abduction after he was freed is wrong.”