The "Extraordinary Rendition" smear....

[catnhatnh]

Has been a source of outrage on DU...Here's the truth, sworn to in front of Congress:
Leon Panetta said the Obama administration has banned the practice of secretly sending a captured suspect to a third country for interrogations that could involve torture.

"Extraordinary renditions were, I think, the situation where we took a prisoner and sent him to another country for questioning," Panetta said Thursday during his Senate confirmation hearing. "And often times, that questioning took place under circumstances that did not meet our test for human values."

on the other hand he added later:
Panetta, however, said the US government will continue to use the long-established practice of taking prisoners to the US or sending them to another country for possible prosecution, but not under circumstances where they can be abused. That method is known simply as renditions.

"In the renditions, where we return an individual to the jurisdiction of another country and then they exercise, you know, their right to try that individual and to prosecute him under their laws, I think that is an appropriate use of rendition," Panetta said

Story Link: http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14852313&?vsv=TopHP7

Does that sound like "more of the same"???

[liberalmuse]

1. Thank you. Fuck Christ.

This has been driving me mad. Even my beloved ACLU is spreading this shit.

[catnhatnh]

2. Yep, the ACLU disappointed me....

I honestly believe once reasonable people really do believe we elected a "Magic Negro".

[treestar]

3. The election is over, but the smear machine is not

[mmonk]

4. .

Plaintiff Ahmed Agiza] was picked up off the streets of Stockholm and then he was taken to an airport where a CIA rendition team--this is a bunch of men dressed all in black, with their faces covered--sliced off all of his clothes, put a suppository into him, chained him to the floor of an airplane, flew him to Egypt, where he was exposed to absolutely brutal torture, including shock treatment, all kinds of beatings. He was then given a show trial in an Egyptian military court and sentenced to 15 years for involvement in a banned organization.

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His has been an extremely well-documented case; it's been in books by Seymour Hersh and others. The UN has investigated this; the Swedish government has investigated this case.

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In fact, just a couple of months ago, the Swedish government agreed to pay Ahmed Agiza $450,000 for its secondary role in the CIA's rendition of Agiza to Egypt. So there's no real secret involved here. Nothing would be revealed by allowing Agiza to go forward in a case against the CIA, because Jeppesen's role is public, because Sweden's role is public, and because Egypt's role is public--he's in an Egyptian prison right now.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/09/state_secrets/index.html

[DCKit]

5. Hey Panetta, when it's done *legally*, it's called "extradition".

Jeebus, what a Brainiac.