Obama - The beginning

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

CIA's counter-terrorism rendition program gets nod from Obama
Email Printer friendly version Normal font Large font Greg Miller in Washington
February 2, 2009

UNDER executive orders issued by the US President, Barack Obama, last week, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as "renditions", or the secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that co-operate with the United States.

Current and former US intelligence officials said that the rendition program might be poised to play an expanded role because it was the main remaining mechanism - aside from Predator missile strikes - for taking suspected terrorists off the street.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/cia...423045649.html

Rendition is nothing new. Hopefully, the difference will be to do it legally, within acceptable international standards...like not sending a prisoner to a location where it is expected that he would be tortured or killed by the authorities of that country.

If Obama is going to close Gitmo...there will need to be some form of "rendition" of those prisoners...unless the plan is to hold them in US prisons or release them unconditionally, and neither option is under consideration.

The same Executive Order does specifically prohibit interrogation techniques that are defined as torture under our international treaty obligations.