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Pirate's Cove —
... Remember that rendition issue? Um, well, you see, Obama has expanded it. Hot Air has the story to make lefties heads explode ...
Obama embraces torture.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
I told you.
I damned well told you.
Rendition is back, you pro-torturing, posturing, hypocritical Leftist fools:
Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool
The role of the CIA’s controversial prisoner-transfer program may expand, intelligence experts say.
Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the ...
Obama's Rendition Program, No Torture Included
Newshoggers.com —
... from rightie-tightie bloggers today because the L.A. Times says that Obama's recent executive orders on torture and detentions leave open the door for illegal renditions to nations that torture. Ed Morrissey is especially "told ya so", and ...
Around The Sphere
The Moderate Voice —
... is this: I think that the Obama Administration is likely to be the most pessimistic of my memory. I believe President Obama’s strategy will be minimax—minimizing loss rather than maximizing gain. This will place him in diametric opposition to George W. Bush.
There’s a lot more so read it in its entirety.
What’s The Biggest Spending Bill In History? Was it this?
Barack Obama Is Against Renditions or is he?
Still More On Pajamas Media: PJ Media wants has dumped its blog ...
NEW MOVIE!
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE —
I'm not that into movies, but this new one is bound to be a hit. Ace has the scoop: No word yet on if Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal have signed on for Rendition II: The Most Important Tool In Keeping America Safe!!!!!! You haven't heard of it? Well, I'm sure they are in post production considering that Obama is keeping and expanding rendention: For the last seven years, the Left has screeched hysterically over the CIA practice of rendition, in which agents turn detainees over to authorities in their home country ...
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 ...
Obama's Rendition Decision and the Pro-Torture Left
Wizbang —
Obama expands rendition! From Ed Morrisey : For the last seven years, the Left has screeched hysterically over the CIA practice of rendition, in which agents turn detainees over to authorities in their home country for interrogation. Never mind that the practice started in the Clinton administration, and never mind that the other options were Guantanamo Bay, release, or two caps in the back of the head; they pilloried Bush over renditions as if he'd thought them up himself. Hollywood even made a movie about how awful the process is, apparently matched in awfulness only by the ...
More Ice storm & More
The Anchoress —
... . Actually he is expanding them. Someone - I forget who - in my morning reading explained that when Clinton (who developed the rendition policy) and Obama use rendition, it’s okay, because “they won’t support torture and I believe them!). Rendition under the previous administration was, of course, ...
Interrogation Breakdown
Opinionator —
... : 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. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air : For the last seven years, the Left has screeched hysterically over the CIA practice of rendition, in which agents turn ...
Ask Dr. Rendition!
Political Animal —
... of that Human Rights Watch statement was "all that stuff about the need to end rendition? "Oh, that's just what we call pillow talk, baby, that's all."" A: You were misinformed. Q: Isn't all this just hairsplitting in a frantic attempt to defend The One from criticism? A: No. If you think that the difference between extradition and sending someone off to Uzbekistan to be tortured is just semantics, you probably need to work on your reading comprehension skills. Q: Have you " screeched hysterically over the CIA practice of rendition" "for the last seven years"? A: No. I can't ...
Ask Dr. Rendition!
Obsidian Wings —
... Q: Have you "screeched hysterically over the CIA practice of rendition" "for the last seven years"? ...
Rendition is Still an Option
Stones Cry Out —
Ed Morrissey notes that…
For the last seven years, the Left has screeched hysterically over the CIA practice of rendition, in which agents turn detainees over to authorities in their home country for interrogation. Never mind that the practice started in the Clinton administration, and never mind that the other options were Guantanamo Bay, release, or two caps in the back of the head; they pilloried Bush over renditions as if he’d thought them up himself. Hollywood even made a movie about how awful the process is, ...
Renditions Again
Political Animal —
... and provide the Red Cross with access to them. The intelligence community must follow the executive order. With respect to renditions, the intelligence community must comply with U.S. obligations under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, including Article 3 prohibiting the rendition of a person to a country where it is more likely than not he will be subjected to torture. " I'm sure we will shortly see corrections from Hot Air , ...
Renditions Again
Obsidian Wings —
... I'm sure we will shortly see corrections from Hot Air, Pat Dollard, Moe Llane, Jonah Goldberg, et al.
Weekend Opinionator: Truth Commission or More Rendition?
Opinionator —
... the CIA 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. Current and former U.S. intelligence officials said that the rendition program might be poised to play an expanded role going forward because it was the main remaining mechanism — aside from Predator missile strikes — for taking suspected terrorists off the street. While conservatives greeted the article with glee — here and ...
Why don’t you “hate” Obama?
The Anchoress —
... Well, actually, that was President Clinton’s baby, but yes, Bush continued it. And um…it seems Obama is expanding renditions, and continuing the ...
