Obama Adopts Bush's Extraordinary Renditions?

[SA210]

"The U.S. counterterrorism practice known as extraordinary rendition, in which suspects were quietly moved to secret prisons abroad and often tortured, involved the participation of more than 50 nations, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Open Society Foundations."*

Extraordinary renditions, or secretive kidnappings and imprisonments conducted on terror suspects were conducted under George W. Bush's presidency. Did Obama stop the practices? Not so much. Cenk Uygur breaks it down.


*Read more from Joshua Hersh/ Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/04/extraordinary-rendition-torture-report_n_2617809.html)



TYT: Obama Adopts Bush's Extraordinary Renditions?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUY-U6GCW5U

[Jacob1983]

In other news, water is wet.

[ChumpDumper]

They were Clinton's before they were Bush's. Idiots like memeboy210 don't know shit.

[Blake]

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (1 members and 0 guests) Blake

Aw cmon. I know there has to be somebody out there besides me that wants to sit through another youtube

[Wild Cobra]

SA...

You are a day late to the party:

SpurTalk link: CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support' (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209093&p=6341841#post6341841)

[Winehole23]

They were Clinton's before they were Bush's. Idiots like memeboy210 don't know shit.simple precedence over principle? makes it ok in your book?

[ChumpDumper]

simple precedence over principle? makes it ok in your book?I didn't express an opinion on it either way, thank you very much.

If you want something else to feel self-righteous about, you might want to get my actual take first.

[Winehole23]

I'm all ears. What is your actual take?

[ChumpDumper]

It just seems to be a way to torture by proxy. Might as well torture them ourselves.

[Winehole23]

how interesting. what's your take on torture?

[ChumpDumper]

Agin' it.

[ElNono]

I was gonna say... adopt? Wasn't aware the program was ever stopped...

[boutons_deux]

America’s Global Torture Network

The title, “Globalizing Torture,” says it all. This meticulous accounting of the network of torture chambers that the United States has authorized in more than 54 nations is a damning indictment that should make all of us in this country cringe with shame.

The report is a product of the Open Society Foundations, funded by international financier and philanthropist George Soros, who, as a young Jew, suffered through the Nazi occupation of Hungary and emerged from that experience an uncompromising fighter for human rights. That his lifelong goal to “foster accountability for international crimes,” reflected in his organization’s mission statement, now includes our government is a condemnation as awful as it is deserved.

When it comes to torture in the post 9/11 era, the record of the United States is so appalling that one must question our claimed abhorrence of the barbarism of other nations. In fact, the essence of our rendition program has been to outsource torture to those countries most sadistic in their use of “enhanced interrogation techniques.” That is flattery of a most twisted sort.

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/15938-americas-global-torture-network

[boutons_deux]

Federal Judge Who Authored Torture Memo Rejects Prisoner’s Lawsuit Alleging Torture

The author of the 2002 Bush torture memo that condoned waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and other extreme treatment has now authored a federal appeals court opinion rejecting a torture lawsuit by a California prisoner.

Jay Bybee, who was appointed by Bush to become a federal appeals court judge before the memo became known, voted to overturn a trial court’s ruling that a prisoner alleging cruel and unusual punishment could take his case to trial. Plaintiff Rex Chappell filed suit to challenge his treatment while held in isolation on“contraband watch” for almost seven days with continuous bright lighting, shackled to a concrete bed with no mattress and forced to eat like a dog. Bybee described the conditions this way:

Contraband watch, also known as a “body cavity search,” is a temporary confinement during which a prisoner is closely monitored and his bowel movements searched to determine whether he has ingested or secreted contraband in his digestive tract. Under prison procedures, the prisoner is first searched and then dressed so as to prevent him from excreting any contraband and removing it from his clothing. … The prisoner is then placed in waist chain restraints, which are handcuffs that are separated and chained to the side of the prisoner’s waist. […]

When the prisoner needs to defecate he must notify the prison staff who will bring him a plastic, moveable toilet chair. Once he uses the chair, the staff will search the waste to determine if it contains contraband.

In addition to these procedures, Chappell claims that he was also placed in ankle shackles, and chained to the bed. He complains that the waist restraints were not loosened for meals, forcing him to “eat [his] food like a dog; the temperature in the cell was very high; the cell was unventilated; and the lights were “very bright.” Chappell alleged that the conditions “did in fact torture [him] mentally” and he felt like he “deteriorat[ed] mentally” during contraband watch.

After having three bowel movements that did not reveal contraband, Chappell was released from contraband watch on May 6, 2002.

Bybee held that federal officials were immune from lawsuit because the type of treatment Chappell alleged had never before been deemed unconstitutional. He rejected the district court judge’s conclusion that the conditions were ones that “any reasonable officer would know comprised unconstitutional conditions of confinement.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/07/1558641/federal-judge-who-authored-torture-memo-rejects-prisoners-lawsuit-alleging-torture/ (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/07/1558641/federal-judge-who-authored-torture-memo-rejects-prisoners-lawsuit-alleging-torture/)

"legal reasoning" makes as much sense as "a veteran prostitute's virginity"

fucking lawyers, and their fucking self-congratulating, preening, weasel-ly "reasoning"

[boutons_deux]

and dubya/dickhead's John Yoo ain't doing too shabbily, either

http://ucpay.globl.org/index.php?campus=BERKELEY&name=YOO+_+JOHN+CHOON