Obama preserves rendition two days after taking office

[Javaman]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_preserves_rendition_in__0201.html

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 recent 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.

[bluestateguy]

1. Good

Bernard Madoff should be the first to go.

[BlooInBloo]

2. (facepalm)

[Warren Stupidity]

3. some torture is good torture

or perhaps 'gitmo' is just the wrong place for torture, but torture is fine.

[Javaman]

4. I hope you just forgot to put your sarcasm icon thingy. nt

[Warren Stupidity]

8. I'm interpreting the Obama doctrine on torture.

My opinion is that it is a war crime as per the geneva conventions, but I'm a nobody on the internet.

[bluestateguy]

5. If you are talking about white collar corporate supercriminals, then I say yes

nt

[lunatica]

6. That's really disappointing on the face of it

And I wonder what his reason is. Is rendition strictly about torture or is it about taking captives to the countries where they committed the crimes whether those countries torture or not? It's not simple I know, but I can't condone torture anywhere.

[Zen Democrat]

7. Feinstein said today that it's not rendition because they won't be sent to foreign countries.

She said according to the new order that the CIA can continue to abduct and question people, but not send to foreign detention centers or black sites. Diane should know, because I think she probably prefers the old rendition policies anyway.

[FrenchieCat]

9. So after "Two Days after take the helm of a country".....as the article reads, President Obama

has not YET reversed Bush's Rendition executive order.

Is there something that I'm missing?
Or is this a story of how Obama hasn't YET REVERSED Bush's rendition order?

Are we all really that impatient to this extent? :shrug: