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.
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!
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.
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.
Yes, tecban. You are not alone. A whole lot of people feel the same way!
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that’s all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Yeah right, if you don’t have the stomach to do it yourself, farm it out to somebody that plays much rougher and you can wash your hands of it.
The only real difference on this point between Bush/Chaney and Obama and Zero is the level of hypocrisy.
Got a question. How many of you are sure Obama is actually in charge at the White House? If he is he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth. If he isn’t…Who needs him?
O wants us to pass the Health Control bill based upon blind trust in him. He’s giving us less reason for doing so.
#19 – Corn, I passed on the JayZ songs on the iPod too! Although I have been known to listen to a knee grow spiritual every now and then.
the picture looks like a street corner in oakland on a Friday night. 2 ho’s and a pimp.
#23 Like Cheney was the puppetmaster with Bush, you mean? 🙂
Ok, wingnuts… this is a teaching moment here, to demonstrate the difference between Bush supporters and Obama supporters. Whenever Bush did something boneheaded, his supporters never swayed in their devotion to him. When Obama does something boneheaded, his supporters criticize him. Like I’m doing, now. I’m disappointed in him… I voted for him, but not to continue sending prisoners to god knows what fate in some third world country. That sucks. We can do our own interrogation.
Obama has become the articulate version of George Bush Jr.
Can you tell do some research on the Apollo Alliance that is taking credit for writing the stimulus bill and their ties to the white house? apolloalliance.org
#30 harold, wait until he starts a war on false pretenses, sending thousands of American soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians to their deaths, costing trillions of dollars. Then we can begin comparing them.
The difference between Bush and Obama is that Bush was better for the safety of the US and that he cared about the US.
Of course this is what happens when even the most leftist president is actually confronted by an accurate and within the bounds of reality world threat report, unlike the leftist media (I know redundant) claptrap sludge that passes for “smart” today among the elites and academia.
The entire “war is not the answer”, “no blood for oil”, “Bush lied people died”, meme is/was the biggest con job leftist operation (in conjunction with the conspiracy theory nut cases) in modern times, and at least Obama has some non-ideological part of his brain that can see this, even though he profited greatly from it.