CIA rendition flights continue under Obama

[OneAngryDemocrat]

Source: TUCSON SENTINEL

New documents in recent days have surfaced several new details about the shadowy practice of snatching terrorism suspects from one country and rendering them into the custody of another. As we noted last week, several documents on rendition emerged as part of an obscure court case in the state of New York. Others were discovered by Human Rights Watch in Libya.

While the Obama administration has tried to distance itself from the some of the harshest counterterrorism techniques, it has also said that at least some forms of renditions will continue.

At least one Obama administration official has maintained that rendition is legal under U.S. law, even if the receiving country might torture the suspect. As the Washington Post's SpyTalk blog noted, CIA assistant general counsel Daniel Pines, writing for a law journal last year, asserted that while U.S. officials could not themselves torture suspects during rendition, "U.S. law does not even preclude the United States from rendering an individual to a foreign location where he or she could be abused or tortured." Pines said he was expressing his own views, and not the official views of the CIA or U.S. government.



Read more: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/090711_obama_rendition/cia-rendition-flights-continue-under-obama/

[Demeter]

1. Add me to your count of Angry Democrats, Please

This is an abomination.

[Vincardog]

6. +1 This is an abomination.

[xchrom]

15. +2

[Kaleko]

17. + 3

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. And we wonder why O won't investigate torture?

It would open the lid on what his own damned administration is doing. :puke:

[Autumn]

3. If rendition flights continue, so does torture.

K/R

[EFerrari]

5. Leon Panetta said as his confirmation hearing that rendition is a good tool

that he would continue to use. I doubt Peaches Petraeus is going to change that.

[Autumn]

8. Right, nothing changes except the faces at the top

;(

[ThomCat]

9. Was there ever any doubt that the the renditions and torture

never stopped? When Obama kept supporting Bush policies, and kept expanding them, and defending them, and refusing to prosecute anything, even the worst war crimes, we knew it was because the crimes were continuing.

As long as the wars were continuing the war crimes were continuing too. There is no such thing as a clean war, especially when our government was/is having the wars run by the CIA and mercenaries. Especially when the wars are all about politics and business interests instead of being about defeating some actual sovereign enemy somewhere for real defense reasons. :(

[Autumn]

13. Yeah but I have seen links all over DU

saying Obama doesn't use torture. If one suggests it some one will straighten them out. Well there were us who knew better. The policies and wars roll on.

[ThomCat]

14. Oh yes. Obama said that the torture ended.

And Obama never lies, so the torture must have ended. I've been told many times here that the I'm a fool for believing that the torture and rendition continued, just because aid agencies say so. Only a food believes aid agencies, and those who claim they were tortured, when Saint Obama has stated that the torture has ended. :eyes:

[Supersedeas]

16. I thought Eric Holder might have a more forthright approach when he took over the DOJ

I am sadly mistaken.

[hifiguy]

4. Which gives complete and utter lie

to Obama's fatuously pious statements that torture is no longer conducted under the auspices (be they tacit or explicit) of the US government.

The game is over and, in Frank Zappa's words, they are taking down the scenery. See: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x320763

[hifiguy]

7. Kickety rec!

:kick:

[gratuitous]

10. But Obama enjoys high approval ratings from liberals!

Quick, someone trot out The List!

[Vidar]

11. Bush the Third.

[leftstreet]

12. USA! USA! USA!

K&R

[Octafish]

18. So. Who IS in control?

Could it be The people who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 had kids?