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Related: About this forumRenditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/renditions-continue-under-obama-despite-due-process-concerns/2013/01/01/4e593aa0-5102-11e2-984e-f1de82a7c98a_story.htmlRenditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns
By Craig Whitlock, Published: January 1
The three European men with Somali roots were arrested on a murky pretext in August as they passed through the small African country of Djibouti. But the reason soon became clear when they were visited in their jail cells by a succession of American interrogators.
U.S. agents accused the men two of them Swedes, the other a longtime resident of Britain of supporting al-Shabab, an Islamist militia in Somalia that Washington considers a terrorist group. Two months after their arrest, the prisoners were secretly indicted by a federal grand jury in New York, then clandestinely taken into custody by the FBI and flown to the United States to face trial.
The secret arrests and detentions came to light Dec. 21 when the suspects made a brief appearance in a Brooklyn courtroom.
The men are the latest example of how the Obama administration has embraced rendition the practice of holding and interrogating terrorism suspects in other countries without due process despite widespread condemnation of the tactic in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Jan 2013
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. du rec. nt
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)2. We should show more deference to Mohammed Atta's buddies
/sarcasm
newfie11
(8,159 posts)3. I guess this what this country has become
And looking ahead is pretty scary.
dballance
(5,756 posts)4. "Due Process" Concerns? We have no Concerns
The US is certainly not concerned with due process any longer. Not that if I really examined history very closely I wouldn't find we never were. I bet we denied "due process" to a number of Native Americans in our pursuit of our Manifest Destiny to get them out of the way. And I'd bet that since our "leaders" saw that worked so well they just expanded it beyond the US continent.