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In reply to the discussion: NYT Op-ed: Pardon Bush and Those Who Tortured [View all]uppityperson
(115,685 posts)a crime to another country where torture is legal. It is NOT sending a foreign fanatic home. It DOES involve torture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
Extraordinary rendition or irregular rendition is the government sponsored abducting and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another. In the United States President Clinton authorized extraordinary rendition to nations known to practice torture, called torture by proxy.
Under the subsequent administration of President George W. Bush, the term became associated with transferring so-called "illegal combatants" (often never charged with any crime) both to other countries for torture by proxy, and to US controlled sites for a torture program called enhanced interrogation.[3][4][5][6] Extraordinary rendition continued with reduced frequency in the Obama administration: those abducted have been interrogated and subsequently taken to the US for trial.[7][