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A Nine Letter Word for Kidnapping
N/A —
Thus spake Obama. Rendition? Kidnapping continues to be all right if the right people do it. Rendition?
No question it works. No question it violates sovereignity and international law. That’s how the Israelis got Eichmann, an open and potentially embarassing secret For those who approve the practice, how many Americans would be happy if other nations ran the streets here and snatched up whoever they thought necessary? And maybe that is how Bush and Cheney et al could end up in The Hague. ...
Rendition With a Human Face
Neptunus Lex —
... When President Bush authorized “extraordinary renditions” it was a national disgrace. When President Obama decided to expand the procedure it has become nuanced policy: ...
The new renditions policy: Is it what Al Gore would have done?
TigerHawk —
The question is, does Barack Obama's policy on "renditions" go as far as Al Gore's originally did ? You know, the Al Gore who said "That's a no-brainer. Of course it's a violation of international law, that's why it's a covert action. The guy is a terrorist. Go grab his ass." Lefty bloggers believe that it does not , but in this area decisions that turn on specific facts are usually more challenging than statements of principle in the abstract. 0 Comments: Post a Comment This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours? Weblog Commenting and ...
The LA Times On Rendition
Obsidian Wings —
... The LA Times has an article today called "Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool": ...
Obama Keeps Renditions In the Toolbox
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... President Obama may be trying to shut down Guantanamo and CIA black sites, but he’s decided to make renditions a part of his regime. In case you’ve repressed it along with other Bush-era nightmares, extraordinary rendition is what the U.S. calls kidnapping someone and sending him to a nasty place to be tortured. ...
The Rendition Canard
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
For 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 ...
Does Obama Catch Too? Or Just Roll Over?
DownWithTyranny! —
... So I can't even say "I want my money back" and I would never say "I want my vote back," because all he ever was (to me) was a relatively cool symbol and... much better than McCain. Well, maybe not that much better. But somewhat better. I certainly voted for him knowing full well what we were getting. So I can't say I'm disappointed in all the compromising with Republicans over everything; it's really what comes natural to him. If you thought he would pursue charges against Bush or any of the criminal elements around him... well, he didn't mean that much change. ...
LAT
Sister Toldjah —
Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool
MEET THE NEW BOSS, YADA YADA: Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool. “The role of t…
Instapundit —
... MEET THE NEW BOSS, YADA YADA: Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool. “The role of the CIA’s controversial prisoner-transfer program may expand, intelligence experts say. . . . the Obama administration appears to have determined that the rendition program was one component of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism that it could not afford to discard. And “human rights” groups are already covering for Obama, something that has not ...
Human Rights Watch Reverses Position On Rendition
small dead animals —
... "Under limited circumstances, there is a legitimate place" for renditions, said Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. "Limited circumstances include a Democrat in the White House," he did not need to add. ...
Andrew Sullivan tortures himself for Obama
Patterico's Pontifications —
... The L.A. Times report that Pres. Obama has preserved renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the US in the war on terrorists — and may expand them — had bloggers like ...
Obama's Cool Clothes
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] He lectured us about "virtue" in his Inaugural Address, and he was quite right to do it. But ever since, he has thrown virtue under the campaign bus an attorney general who lied under oath, tax cheats at Treasury and HHS, and now (h/t Instapundit), despite all the pious talk about putting an end to torture, he seems to be retaining what is arguably the worst component of our "interrogate the terrorist" programs: rendition. I well remember the first time I heard about this noxious practice. An intelligence-community official told me, with evident satisfaction, "We're sending ...
More Ice storm & More
The Anchoress —
... figures? Here is an illustration. More here, and here
The Peaceful Elections in Iraq are getting some coverage. I blame Bush and our troops. I missed it when Obama praised the UN.
Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore: Yes, to watch it, again. If you have never seen it, make a point of doing so.
A Kinder, Gentler Rendition: President Obama is preserving rendition. Actually he is expanding them. Someone - I forget who - ...
Interrogation Breakdown
Opinionator —
On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported that while Barack Obama has announced significant changes to elements in the Bush terror war — shutting Guatanamo and C.I.A. black sites, ending the use of torture in interrogations — he has “left intact an equally controversial counter-terrorism tool.” “Under executive orders issued by Obama recently,” wrote reporter Greg Miller, “the C.I.A. still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States.” The news story prompted a number ...
Confusing!
Matthew Yglesias —
By Brian Beutler
Read Hilzoy on the Los Angeles Times report that Obama just can’t quit George W. Bush’s habit of torturing people. There’s a temptation, I’m sure, for conservatives to wield stories like this as cudgels against those of us who don’t take a morally serious approach to fighting Al Qaeda. “A Ha! See! Even your beloved president knows it’s unwise to give up the waterboard,” etc. etc.
Let ‘em. We’ll know soon enough how deeply committed Barack Obama is to ending the ...
Dear Moe Lane
Comments from Left Field —
FUCK yo couch!
hugs ‘n’ kisses,
The Online Left, who will be sleeping like babies tonight because most of us didn’t swallow the bullshit sammich served up yesterday by the LA Times.
Not all renditions are the same
The Reaction —
... On Sunday, the L.A. Times, certainly one of the more credible sources in American journalism, reported that Obama has authorized the CIA to continue to "carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States." Essentially, the report went, Obama was going to maintain the "controversial counter-terrorism tool" completely "intact": "[T]he Obama administration appears to have determined that the rendition program was one component of the Bush administration's war on terrorism that it ...
Salt Shaker, Please
Comments from Left Field —
... Maybe my bullshit radar is oversensitive after being fooled by that Los Angeles Times article suggesting that Pres. Obama was planning to keep renditions as a part of the C.I.A.’s intelligence arsenal. That story turned out to be a ...
Not All Renditions Are the Same
The Moderate Voice —
... On Sunday, the L.A. Times, certainly one of the more credible sources in American journalism, reported that Obama has authorized the CIA to continue to “carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States.” Essentially, the report went, Obama was going to maintain the “controversial counter-terrorism tool” completely “intact”: “[T]he Obama administration appears to have determined that the rendition program was one component of the Bush ...
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Political Animal —
... of rendition, what I was arguing, basically, was this: while most people use the term 'rendition' to mean 'the Bush program of sending people abroad to be tortured', it has a broader meaning within the law. Not all rendition is extraordinary rendition, and not all extraordinary rendition is "rendition to torture". This matters when you're interpreting the remarks of a person who might be using 'rendition' in its technical sense: for instance, when someone from Human Rights Watch says that ""Under limited circumstances, there is a legitimate place" for renditions". If you ...
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Obsidian Wings —
... This matters when you're interpreting the remarks of a person who might be using 'rendition' in its technical sense: for instance, when someone from Human Rights Watch says that ""Under limited circumstances, there is a legitimate place" for renditions". If you assume that 'rendition' just means 'sending someone overseas to be tortured', then you'd wonder how on earth anyone who claimed to be a human rights advocate could possibly say what this HRW person is quoted as saying. But if you recognize that extraordinary rendition covers not just ...
Breaking Update: Topless Gay Marriage Opponent Fires Gay Man; Backs Bush on Rendition, Wiretaps, Waterboarding; Hires Wall Street Plutocrats; Demands Expensive French Mustard
iowahawk —
Massive outcry expected soon
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