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Monday, February 02, 2009

Obama lets CIA keep controversial renditions tool

WASHINGTON — "The CIA's secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to being a wind-swept naval base on the southeastern corner of Cuba.

"But even while dismantling these discredited programs, President Barack Obama left an equally controversial counterterrorism tool intact.

"Under executive orders issued by 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 cooperate with the U.S.

"Current and former U.S. intelligence officials said the rendition program is poised to play an expanded role because it is the main remaining mechanism—aside from Predator missile strikes—for taking suspected terrorists off the street ..."
Chicago Tribune


Telegraph.co.uk
Obama to allow anti-terror rendition to continue
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours ago
The highly controversial anti-terror practice of rendition will continue under Barack Obama, it has emerged. By Alex Spillius in Washington Despite ordering ...
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Times Online, UK - 9 minutes ago
Claude Moraes, the Labour MEP who was part of the European committee investigating CIA renditions, said it was hard to criticise Mr Obama because he had ...

Truthdig
Obama Keeps Renditions In the Toolbox
Truthdig, United States - 11 minutes ago
President Obama may be trying to shut down Guantanamo and CIA black sites, but he’s decided to make renditions a part of his regime. ...

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