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Did Obama allow exception for “temporary” CIA black sites?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... executive order that closed secret CIA detention facilities abroad, known as “black sites”, the world cheered as they saw American intelligence defanged.  After all, without some kind of detention facilities, how would the CIA hold wanted terrorists even for a few days while determining how to process them?  Suspected terrorists would either have to be killed outright — not very Hope-and-Changey — or intelligence agents would have to let them go about their business.  Eli Lake at the Washington Times discovers that Obama’s order leaves a little-noticed loophole to cover such ...

Obama’s Rendition Exception.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — I’m not nearly as sanguine about this as Ed was: EXCLUSIVE: Loophole allows terrorist detentions President Obama’s executive order closing CIA “black sites” contains a little-noticed exception that allows the spy agency to continue to operate temporary detention facilities abroad. [snip] Current and former U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition that they aren’t identified because of the sensitivity of the subject, said such temporary facilities around the world will remain open, giving the ...

A Temporary Gulag Archipelago You Can Believe In
Weekly Standard Blog — Eli Lake reports: President Obama's executive order closing CIA "black sites" contains a little-noticed exception that allows the spy agency to continue to operate temporary detention facilities abroad. The provision illustrates that the president's order to shutter foreign-based prisons, known as black sites, is not airtight and that the Central Intelligence Agency still has options if it wants to hold terrorist suspects for several days at a time. Why does the CIA want to hold terrorist suspects, and why is ...

Obama's Signs and Signals
Gates of Vienna — Remember the Big Deal recently when O’Bama signed his long-awaited executive order, the one about the closing of Guantanamo’s prison for terrorists? Turns out that no one wants the inmates, so he may have trouble emptying out the place. Alcatraz would be perfect, but the Speaker of the House, the Hon’bl Nancy Pelosi, says no way, José. Alcatraz is in her district, which is filled with enough America haters as it is. Besides the fact that The Rock is a tourist site now, the place would probably never meet the code for “humane” treatment. For that matter, they’re going to have trouble finding any place as luxe as Gitmo for our ...

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The Danger of Freeing Guantanamo Detainees
Winds of Change.NET — From Robert Worth of the NYT: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year. The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen. bq. ... bq. ...

Loopholes That Never Were
Matthew Yglesias — Speaking of confirmation hearings, Leon Panetta had one today. Mr Panetta was also asked whether the agency would continue the practice of sending detainees to foreign countries for the purpose of torture. “No, we will not,” Mr Panetta said. “Because under the executive order issued by the President, that kind of extraordinary rendition, where we send someone for the purpose of torture or actions by another country that violate our human values, that has been forbidden.” Mr Panetta said some kinds of renditions of prisoners were “appropriate”, citing as an example the rendition to France of Carlos ...