The Rendition Canard »
Posted By tehranchik 11 months ago in Political NewsFor some reason, many people on the right and a few within the CIA feel the need to minimize the difference between Obama and Bush on the terror war. And so we are greeted with whoops and hollers because the Obama administration will return to the rendition policies of the GWH Bush and Clinton administrations. Note, as Hilzoy does , what this isn't. It is not the practice of " extraordinary rendition" that the Bush-Cheney administration pioneered to supplement its own torture program. It is the practice of capturing terror suspects and rendering them to non-torturing foreign governments for detention, interrogation or prosecution. The moral and legal bright lines have been very well advertized by Obama.
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Well, I'm from and live in the Pacific Northwest. I did live in the middle east during the late 70's and early 80 ...
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berkeley11 months ago
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do you mean you feel uncomfortable with our kidnapping people anywhere on the planet and taking them anywhere we wish?
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what about treating other governments, who openly torture prisoners, as if they are respectable members of the world community? to me, that is far worse, because the list of such governments is quite long. it includes china and israel, for example.
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