(Bush* admin authorizes) Delivering people into the hands of torturers

Patriot_Spear

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Sun Nov-16-03 12:11 PM
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(Bush* admin authorizes) Delivering people into the hands of torturers

We are becoming the monsters we claim to oppose...

Under a practice known as "extraordinary rendition," the CIA is delivering terror suspects into the hands of foreign intelligence services without extradition proceedings. According to the (Washinton) Post, the authority to do this comes from a secret "finding" by the president.

Suspects have been sent to Syria, Morocco, Egypt and Jordan, countries whose abusive practices have been documented and condemned by the State Department's annual human rights report. "We don't kick the s-- out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the s-- out of them," an unnamed official who had participated in the rendering of prisoners told the Post. Along with the prisoner, the CIA provides the foreign intelligence services a list of questions it wants answered.

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/16/Columns/Delivering_people_int.shtml

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VolcanoJen

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Sun Nov-16-03 12:14 PM
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1. Moving from LBN to Editorials Forum

This is an illuminating article, but it's primarily an opinion piece from the St. Pete Times.

Please continue discussion in this thread's new location, the Editorials & Other Articles Forum.

Thanks!
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Rose Siding

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Sun Nov-16-03 12:20 PM
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2. Here's the referenced WP article

from the 5th:

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Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the Arar case fits the profile of a covert CIA "extraordinary rendition" -- the practice of turning over low-level, suspected terrorists to foreign intelligence services, some of which are known to torture prisoners.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A522-2003Nov4.html

Al Gore can put this on his list of indictments and we can all mourn the loss of liberty as we decide how much anger our candidates should demonstrate.

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Sun Nov-16-03 12:23 PM
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3. What goes around, comes.......

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