Rendition of Terror Suspects Will Continue Under Obama – NYTimes.com — Oh, what a shocker! Who would have expected this?
The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will monitor their treatment to insure they are not tortured, administration officials said on Monday.Skip to next paragraphRelatedTimes Topics: Central Intelligence AgencyBlogThe CaucusThe CaucusThe latest on President Obama, the new administration and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. More Politics NewsThe administration officials, who announced the changes on condition that they not be identified, said that unlike the Bush administration, they would give the State Department a larger role in assuring that transferred detainees would not be abused.“The emphasis will be on insuring that individuals will not face torture if they are sent over overseas,” said one administration official, adding that no detainees will be sent to countries that are known to conduct abusive interrogations.
I wish Obama would stand by his campaign pledges and handle Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detainees in the U.S. courts.
Instead he is listening to DoD/NSA/CIA/FBI/DoJ government officials trying to cover their ass, instead of; holding to his campaign pledges, and doing what the public wants. I am not sure what has him afraid, why he isn’t holding to his pledge.
I consider him a coward.
People say he is just being practical, I say, he is a coward.
And just like his Guantanamo Bay campaign pledges, he is talking about folding on heath care.
Supporters of Obama (I am a supporter) should call it as it is, Obama is being a coward!!!!!
Has anyone else noticed, it’s getting more and more difficult to make neocon nutjobs happy these days?
No problem. Renditions being an issue and war crimes can only occur when the president has the letter “R” behind his name. The progressive wing nuts will not give this a second thought.
What I thought was telling during the Cheney / Kissinger administration was the bluster about Syria being a terrorist supporter and enemy of America whilst they were apparently contracting out torture to them.
War on (of) Terror rises above rhetoric (propaganda).
P.S. Obama = same. Yes we can.
#1 Wasn’t this the change you were expecting? Maybe, he’s just showing his inner nazi.
My prediction: the practice of rendition will soon have its name changed to “outsourcing of problematic prisoners”. Then fans of Obama can put a check mark on the campaign pledge.
Just curious if it is the foreign countries who run the overseas prisons or is maybe Blackwater involved in running them.
#1: “Supporters of Obama (I am a supporter) should call it as it is, Obama is being a coward!!!!!”
I completely agree. He is, in fact, being a coward. And has shown the courage of his convictions in other matters in the past seven months of his administration.
#5: I find it interesting you defended Bush’s rendition programs, but now Obama is a Nazi for continuing them. Go you, I suppose. (A hearty “I told you so” isn’t good enough these days?)
That picture shows three of the most brilliant minds the would has ever known. Ever. Ever ever. Brilliant. Most ever.
That picture shows three of the most brilliant minds the world has ever known. Ever. Ever ever. Brilliant. Most ever.
I assume Scotland is off the list of countries they rendition suspects to?
AND we are treating those Terrorists as IF’
we had NO LAWS. WE are treating them WORSE then England did the USA in the colonial war.
What happened to habius corpus and Process of law.
I never noticed before but Oprah has nice tits!
#7 The nazi reference was an inside joke with #1
Even Barry is bound to do the right thing once in a while.
I find this sad. Didn’t Obama himself say that these very acts of rendition constituted torture? Didn’t he say that he wanted to close Guantanamo because the whole “indefinite detention” was a human rights violation?
I guess it’s ok now because we say it’s not a human rights violation anymore.
Obama = Bush Lite.
Oh, and as for the diversion from the real news, Oprah does look good.
Who cares what we do to these terrorists. Its not like they take real good care of us? The terrorists are no where near as civil as Germany or Japan in WW2. Even VietNam was more human. Yet our bleeding hearts feel we should not try and get information out of these people? I say let’s ether put these so called terrorists in our base in Cuba on trial or set them free. They cost us more money then their worth. Stick a parachute on each one and drop over some mountain in Afghanistan.
Well here’s one progressive who’s about to become an ex-Obama supporter.
Health care reform is on track to be a watered-down compromise that makes Medicare Part D look like socialism.
Our allies are implementing sanctions against Honduras following a coup, with repression and arrests on the rise, while Clinton operatives work with the new government and Obama smugly remarks that he thought progressives wanted America to stay out of Central America. Most Americans don’t even know there was a coup in Honduras.
Goldman Sachs and their cronies are still running their Ponzi schemes, and now are being set up to run the carbon credit charade. Not only are no reforms being proposed, no one is even being investigated.
Rendition and secret prisons continue, as does the Iraq occupation continues, and no one can really explain why exactly we are escalating the conflict in Afghanistan.
Sadly, it’s been a very educational year.
The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Bush doesn’t have any JayZ songs on his ipod.
Dvorak’s attempt to equate Obama with Bush on how suspected terrorists get interrogated is lame.
A swing and a miss, John. This would only work with the Bill O’Really crowd.