Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
The Rendition Canard
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... 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, as Hilzoy explains: ...
Andrew Sullivan tortures himself for Obama
Patterico's Pontifications —
... avoids the charge leveled by critics that such renditions are illegal kidnaping, regardless of whether they result in “torture” however described. He also avoids asking why we would be keen to snatch someone in country A and hand him over to country B, as opposed to bringing him to the US, aside from avoiding legal problems here and the probability that the target may cough up info when left to the tender mercies of the authorities in country B.
Sully, relying on Hilzoy, quotes secion 5(e)(ii) of Obama’s executive order, under which a ...
"Rendition" Revisited
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] An author I don't know, writing at The Washington Monthly , which I have long considered one of this city's minor cesspools, argues that "rendition" would not permit CIA to transfer terrorists to foreign countries that practice torture. I hope he's right, and I'll try to follow it, although it's not at all easy. Anyway, thanks to an alert reader who was kind enough to call my attention to the article. ...
Confusing!
Matthew Yglesias —
... Obama is to ending the torture regime, and if the executive orders themselves are any indication, these sorts of opportunistic gotchas will begin to look extremely silly. As for those who are genuinely confused by terms–like “rendition” and “extraordinary rendition”–that sound alike but usually mean different things, you may be at risk of succumbing to The Funniest Joke in the World.
So read Hilzoy, post haste. ...
Obama's No-Torture Order and CIA Secret Renditions
TalkLeft —
... 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 agrees. And Scott Horton says the LA Times got punked. This controversy is ...
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Obsidian Wings —
... The new version of the "patently false assertion" is, in fact, false, as far as I know: to my knowledge, the CIA does not do extraditions. In this it's an advance over the original "patently false assertion", which was true. On the other hand, the claim he attributes to me in the revised version is not one that I actually made in the post Prof. Hutchinson links, nor have I seen it floating around the web. ...
When asked whether extraordinary renditions will continue, Panetta answers without hestitation: ‘No.’
Think Progress —
... 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: ...
Weekend Opinionator: Truth Commission or More Rendition?
Opinionator —
... which involves “the operation of long-term detention facilities either by the CIA or by a cooperating host government together with the CIA, in which prisoners were held outside of the criminal justice system and otherwise unaccountable under law for extended periods of time.” The latter by insisting that Obama’s executive order on the subject is clear : “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 ...
