Extraordinary Rendition

10 Reasons the U.S. Is No Longer the Land of the Free

Jonathan Turley | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Drones Assassinations, War Crimes, 9/11 Civil Liberties, Constitution Patriot Act, Secret Courts, Warrantless Wiretapping, Obama Constitution, Indefinite Detentions, Civil Liverties, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Jonathan Turley

Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own -- the land of free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence.

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Romania's CIA Prison Illuminates Failure of European Accountability

Crofton Black | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Guantanamo, War on Terror, Cia, Romania, Extraordinary Rendition, World News
Crofton Black

Sadly, stubborn denial of 'War on Terror' complicity, even in the face of damning evidence, is standard practice for Europe's governments.

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Return Of The Renditioned

Foreign Policy | Katherine Hawkins | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: US Extraordinary Rendition, US Rendition, Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, World News

For years, human rights groups have accused the CIA of "outsourcing torture" to unsavory U.S. allies. They cite the allegations of dozens of terrorist...

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Supreme Court Won't Revive Torture Lawsuit

AP | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Supreme Court Torture, Scotus Guantanamo Bay, Scotus Torture, Guantanamo Bay Detainees, State Secrets Privilege, Scotus, 9/11, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Bay Torture, Supreme Court Guantanamo Bay, Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Gitmo, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to revive a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism s...

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Since When Are Moral and Constitutional Violations Judged by Whether or Not They Work?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, Foreign Prisons, Illegal Wiretaps, Constitutional Violations, Extraordinary Rendition, Guantanamo, Torture, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

It is bizarrely fascinating to me that the conservatives have found vindication for torture, Guantanamo, extraordinary rendition, foreign prison sites...

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For the U.S. in Egypt, Blowback Is a Bitch

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Omar Suleiman, Egypt, Mohamed Bouazizi, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Cia, Tunisia, Ibn Sheik Al-Libi, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Politics, Mohamed ElBaradei, Cairo, Hosni Mubarak, Khaled Said, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Extraordinary Rendition, World News
Michael Winship

Ironically, blowback from the propaganda offense claiming the existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction now enhances the credibility among Egyptian protesters of a man that same campaign tried to discredit.

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Torture and Abuse in Egypt: The North Carolina Connection

Amnesty International | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Omar Suleiman, #jan25, Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, World News
Amnesty International

By Geoffrey Mock, the Egypt country specialist and chair of the Middle East County Specialists for Amnesty International USA. N227SV plane used in r...

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Obama Talks Human Rights to Chinese President as US is Accused of Proxy Detention

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulet Mohamed, Council on Islamic Relations, Kuwait, Obama, Justice Department, No Fly List, Proxy Detention, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Hu Jintao, George W. Bush, Yemen, Anwar Al-Awlaki, China, Barack Obama, Human Rights, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

Has the United States adopted a new policy of "proxy detention" of U.S. citizens by countries that engage in torture?

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Aggressive FBI Interrogation of US Teen in Kuwait Raises Concerns

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Extraordinary Rendition Lite, Mark Mazzetti, Gulet-Mohamed, Terrorism, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Somalia, George W. Bush, Mother Jones, Yemen, Human Rights, Nick Baumann, Counterterrorism, Glenn Greenwald, No-Fly List, Sharif Mobley, Proxy Detention, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

Increasingly, it seems that Americans who've traveled to Yemen at some point have been detained abroad, where they're subjected not only to aggressive questioning by U.S. officials but also to brutality by the U.S. allies detaining them.

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Is Proxy Detention the Obama Administration's Extraordinary Rendition-Lite?

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anwar Al-Awlaki, Doj, George W. Bush, Yemen, Obama, Reprieve, Diplomatic Assurances, Gulet Mohamed, Muslim, Cair, Glenn Greenwald, Sharif Mobley, Proxy Detention, No Fly List, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, Sana'A, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

While the U.S. may legitimately ask questions of passengers flying to or from Yemen, is it outsourcing those interrogations to countries known to engage in torture?

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Slouching Towards Tyranny

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Revolution, Law, Civil Liberties, Philosophy, Cia, Homeland Security Committee, Material Assistance, President Obama, Fbi, Founding Fathers, War Crimes, Kidnapping, National Security, President Bush, Imperialism, Constitution, Predator Drones, Peter King, US Constitution, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Pakistan, State Secrets, United States, Empire, Military Commissions, Patriot Act, Bagram, Counterterrorism, Edward Gibbon, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Hessians, Politics News
Bruce Fein

The state of civil liberties and national security in the United States is alarming. In the American Empire, the former are routinely crippled or lacerated in the false name of the latter.

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WikiLeaks Releases Cables on Guantánamo, Bagram, and Rendition: What Might Have Been

Nancy Talanian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, Cablegate, Bagram Detainees, Wikileaks, Extraordinary Rendition, World News
Nancy Talanian

At least 50 U.S. State Department cables released by WikiLeaks report on the U.S. government's contacts and negotiations with foreign governments over U.S. detainee policies, requests to resettle detainees, and follow-up on resettlements.

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Wikileaks Cables Reveal Deep Repercussions of Bush Torture Policy

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Germany, El-Masri, George W. Bush, Cablegate, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Wikileaks, Accountability, State Department, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, Julian Assange, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

An exchange between U.S. and German officials reveals a sad reality about the tangled web woven by the Bush administration -- and highlights how President Obama has kept the U.S. ensnared by that legacy.

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Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Europe and Extraordinary Rendition

Amrit Singh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Torture, Macedonia, European Court of Human Rights, Khaled El-Masri, National Security, Extraordinary Rendition, World News
Amrit Singh

An Amnesty International Report released this week calls for a break in the conspiracy of silence surrounding Europe's complicity in CIA-driven torture and extraordinary renditions.

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Obama Administration Implicated in Illegal Detention of Kenyan Human Rights Worker

Clara Gutteridge | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Detention Policy, War on Terror, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, World News
Clara Gutteridge

Al-Amin Kimathi's disgraceful arrest is symptomatic of the Obama administration's continued support for abusive counter-terror practices which were pioneered by the Bush administration

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By One Vote, U.S. Court OKs Torture and "Extraordinary Rendition"

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeppesen Dataplan, Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, World, War on Terror, Torture Accountability, Terrorism, Bisher Al-Rawi, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Binyam Mohamed, Judge Raymond C. Fisher, World News, Politics News, Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Abou Elkassim Britel, Cia, State Secrets Privilege, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, Scott Horton, Accountability, Ahmed Agiza, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Egypt, Morocco, President Obama, Eric Holder, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The ruling delivered last Wednesday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of five men subjected to "extraordinary rendition" and torture, is so troubling it takes a while to digest.

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Court Sides With CIA On 'Extraordinary Rendition,' Grants President Broad 'State Secrets' Privilege

AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeppesen Dataplan, CIA Rendition, Obama Extraordinary Rendition, Rendition Victims, Mohamed Et Al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., Rendition, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News

SAN FRANCISCO — A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program t...

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War Propaganda: Soldiers Become Pawns For The Powerful

Jake Diliberto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, US Soldiers, Reinhold Niebuhr, Time Magazine, Liberals, President Barack Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Media, Pentagon Budget, Larry King LIve, Pentagon Propaganda, Imperial Presidency, Barry McCaffrey, Afghanistan War, Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War, Laura Bush, American Soldiers, Iraq WMD, David Kilcullen, US Marines, Gen. David H. Petraeus, Katie Couric, Neoconservatives, Obama West Point Speech, Extraordinary Rendition, Coin, Counterinsurgency, Politics News
Jake Diliberto

As a Patriotic American and a former Marine, I urge all of us to get realistic about this war. At the rate of 8 billion dollars a month, do Americans want to be in Afghanistan for the next 15 years?

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Prisoners Deserve a Hearing Before Being Sent to Countries That Torture

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Court of Human Rights, Maher Arar, Human Rights, Counterterrorism, Human Rights First, State Department, Terrorism, Guantanamo Bay, Algeria, Indefinite Detention, Hillary Clinton, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Naji, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

Under international law, the United States isn't supposed to transfer anyone to a country where they're likely to face torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. But in the case of Abdul Aziz Naji that's what may happen.

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In Refusing to Hear My Case, The Supreme Court Has Put the World's Peace and Order in Danger

Maher Arar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court Maher Arar, Supreme Court, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, War on Terror, Rcmp, Pakistan Drone Attacks, 9/11, Guantanamo, Maher Arar, Syria, September 11th, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Maher Arar

Last week the Supreme Court refused to hear my case. This eliminates any remaining hope for me of obtaining justice through the U.S. judicial system against US officials who sent me to Syria to be tortured.

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US Refusal to Investigate Torture Lets Other Countries Do it for Us

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Cia, Khaled El-Masri, Counterterrorism, Abu Omar, Scotus, Terrorism, Maher Arar, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

In only looking forward on torture, not back, the Obama administration is reneging on its obligations under the Convention Against Torture, which demands both that torturers be held accountable and that victims receive remedies.

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Court Ruling Highlights Need for New State Secrets Law

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Warrantless Wiretapping, Jeppesen Dataplan, Judge Vaughn Walker, State Secrets, Obama Doj, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Al-Haramain-Islamic-Foundation, Cia, State Secrets Privilege, National Security, Law and Security, National Security Agency, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that the NSA's warrantless wiretapping of an Islamic charity and its lawyers during the Bush administration had violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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Fear, With Good Reason

Barry Eisler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Black Sites, Military Tribunals, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Politics News
Barry Eisler

The real tragedy is that war and secret prisons and torture and the rest have created and continue to create a new generation of Muslim extremists intent on revenge. We know this.

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Judge's Failure to Convict Intelligence Agents Is a Blow to Italy's Justice System

John H. Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italy, Justice, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, Cia, Silvio Berlusconi, Abu Omar, Oscar Magi, Sismi, World News
John H. Tucker

There is little doubt that that members of Italy's intelligence agency played a role in the CIA's kidnapping of Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr.

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Keeping Our Promise to Human Rights

Jamil Dakwar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Americans With Disabilities Act, Human Rights, Detention, President Obama, Human Rights Day, Guantanamo, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Jamil Dakwar

Seven months ago, the US issued a list of human rights commitments and pledges in support of U.S. candidacy for membership in the U.N. Human Rights Council. The decision to join the was the right thing to do.

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