“Thousands” Illegally Rendered By Bush Administration for Interrogation, Torture

[kpete]

“Thousands” Illegally Rendered By Bush Administration for Interrogation, Torture


by Massachusetts School of Law

Global Research, November 29, 2007
Massachusetts School of Law Report

In violation of international and U.S. law, “thousands” of alleged terrorists have been victims of “extraordinary rendition” by the Bush Administration since 9/11, two legal scholars say. “Instead of working to bring those committing crimes against the United States to justice in U.S. courts, the Bush Administration seems intent on doing exactly the opposite---keeping such individuals away from U.S. courts, hidden in a web of secret prisons, underground interrogation cells, and in the hands of cooperative governments,” write Margaret Satterthwaite and Angela Fisher. Satterthwaite is an assistant professor of clinical law at NYU School of Law and Fisher served as assistant research scholar with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.

“Extraordinary renditions, whether originating in territories under U.S. control (actual or effective) or merely carried out by U.S. agents, are unlawful and in violation of international treaties to which the United States is a party,” the authors write. “Despite this clear prohibition, the Bush Administration continues to engage in this practice, using it to transfer detainees out of the reach of U.S. courts and into the realm of secret detentions and brutal interrogations.”

“Having altered the procedure from a transfer sanctioned by U.S. courts to a transfer that is extralegal, this Administration completed the transformation of extraordinary rendition from transfer to justice to transfer out of the justice system,” the authorities contend in an article titled “Tortured Logic: Renditions to Justice, Extraordinary Rendition, and Human Rights Law” published in “The Long Term View,” a journal of informed opinion published by the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover(Volume 6, No. 4).

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Since 9/11, the scholars wrote, renditions have been used not to obtain jurisdiction over the suspects in order to prosecute “but instead to get an individual to talk.” Previous renditions that required approval by an inter-agency group that included the Departments of Justice and State, were now placed in the hands of the CIA, which could render suspects “without consultation.”

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7480

[robbedvoter]

1. I remember Joementum arguing for the secret courts (because I wrote him and

I still get spamed by him as a result). Turns out, * doesn't even need secret courts after all.

[mark414]

2. boy it's gonna be great if even 1 or 2 of these guys seeks revenge

that is, if they ever get out

[ThomCat]

4. I'm sure they have families and friends.

:(

I hope some of these people get out and manage to win some lawsuites. Though, I bet they'll have to do it through foreign courts. Our judges will rubber stamp "state secret" claims and shut down any lawsuit. So much for the rule of law in our country.
x(

[bdamomma]

9. exactly or when those governments come clean and say

their countries were used for rendition by the * regime.

[tekisui]

3. Thousands. Disgusting.

And we know some were innocent, who knows how many.

These programs are useless in fighting *terrorism*. Torture doesn't produce results, only fear and then hatred.

Al Gore has said at least 100 have died under US sanctioned torture.

Most important. They want us all to know that these anti-Constitutional, criminal programs are being used. And they are not going away anytime soon.

Our Democratic Candidates should issue a joint statement that when elected all black site prisons will close, Gitmo will close, torture will cease, illegal spying will cease and participants of any illegal programs will be prosecuted.

[L. Coyote]

5. STALIN would be proud of Comrades BUSH and CHENEY.

And trilled by this new level of global authoritarianism.
Stalin wishes he could have run rampant about the whole globe, like these criminals.

[bdamomma]

10. well if not us to do something to bring these thugs under, it will

hopefully come from another government who does believe in the rule of law, I wonder if France is still after Rummy's a$$.

[Usrename]

12. They dropped it last week.

http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/318605.html

France has has joined the Dark Side.

[RainDog]

6. k - r

[NNN0LHI]

7. Anyone who thinks John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla were the only 2 Americans tortured is a fool

Bush and his thugs love doing this stuff to people.

Take that to the bank.

Don

[L. Coyote]

11. Or, that it didn't happened long before 9/11!!

[gratuitous]

8. This report would be unbelievable

Except for the Bush administration's track record for conducting extra-legal operations and bringing into dispute even well-settled (at least until they got into power) points of law. I tuned in the Today Show to see if any of this absolutely appalling report was getting scrutiny; nope, Drew Peterson and the disappearance of his wife are all they talk about anymore.

(Please note that I'm not saying whatever happened to Stacy Peterson isn't of some concern; but is it truly a national story that I should be informed of every little twist and detail, sitting at home thousands of miles away?)