Obama preserves rendition two days after taking office

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Updated: 2.03.09 added video

Jeremy Gantz
The Raw Story
February 1, 2009

Update at bottom: Did LA Times get ‘punked’? Liberals push back against LA Times story

Two days after taking the helm of a country ready for change after eight years of George W. Bush, President Obama has allowed one controversial “War on Terror” tactic to remain in place: rendition.

Despite frequent condemnation of the practice around the world, rendition — the secret capture, transportation and detention of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons in countries that cooperate with the U.S. — remains in the CIA’s playbook, thanks to a Jan. 22 executive order issued by President Obama.

Other executive orders shuttered the CIA’s secret prisons and banned the harsh interrogation techniques that have been termed torture. And in his most widely noticed break with his predecessor, Obama signed an order to close Guantanamo Bay’s prison within one year.

But rendition will remain. Obama and his administration appear to believe that the rendition program was one piece of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism that it could not afford to discard, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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via The Raw Story | Obama preserves rendition two days after taking office

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Rachel Maddow Show – Scott Horton discusses Obama and rendition

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Obama’s Torture Loopholes, by Prof. James Hill

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