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Obama's No-Torture Order and CIA Secret Renditions
TalkLeft —
... have been abducted and transferred to prisons in countries with questionable human rights records such as Egypt, Morocco or Jordan. The measure, disclosed by the Los Angeles Times yesterday, gives some indication of how Mr Obama’s promise of change may be slower to be realised than once hoped, with the new Administration coming under concerted attack across a range of issues. But, there may be a problem with the LA Tiems article? Glenn Greenwald says the LA Times story about this order is way overblown. Hilzoy ...
Ask Dr. Rendition!
Political Animal —
... to issue a requisition for the return of a fugitive criminal." That was just the first case I found when I looked. There are lots more. Q: But extraordinary rendition means sending someone off to be tortured, right? A: No. Extraordinary rendition is rendition outside normal legal frameworks. (Extradition is a form of "ordinary" rendition.) It includes sending people off to countries where we have reason to think that they will be tortured. But it also includes things like catching Osama bin Laden in another country and bringing him to the United States to stand trial. What ...
Ask Dr. Rendition!
Obsidian Wings —
... A: No. Extraordinary rendition is rendition outside normal legal frameworks. (Extradition is a form of "ordinary" rendition.) It includes sending people off to countries where we have reason to think that they will be tortured. But it also includes things like catching Osama bin Laden in another country and bringing him to the United States to stand trial. What makes something a case of extraordinary rendition is the way the person is transferred from one jurisdiction to another, not what happens to that person once s/he arrives. ...
When asked whether extraordinary renditions will continue, Panetta answers without hestitation: ‘No.’
Think Progress —
Last week, the LA Times published a story asserting that President Obama “left intact” the CIA’s authority to carry out extraordinary renditions. (The unfounded claim was thoroughly debunked.) At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, Leon Panetta, Obama’s pick to head the CIA, declared decisively that the CIA would not carry out extraordinary renditions:
SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-CA): Will the CIA continue the practice of extraordinary rendition by which the government will ...
Weekend Opinionator: Truth Commission or More Rendition?
Opinionator —
... : “in addition to announcing that the administration will obey the Convention Against Torture, the administration will also study not whether to send detainees off to be tortured, but how to ensure that our policies are not intended to result in their torture, and will not result in their torture. This seems to me like a very clear renunciation of the policy of sending people to third countries to be tortured.” Greenwald, remarkably, was the more cautious voice on this one : I want to be clear: none of this is to say that Obama won’t continue many of the worst Bush policies. ...
