As the outlines of the rendition system have been revealed, criticism of the practice has grown. Human rights groups are working on legal challenges to renditions, said Morton Sklar, executive director of the World Organization for Human Rights USA, because one of their purposes is to transfer captives to countries that use harsh interrogation methods outlawed in the United States. That, he said, is prohibited by the U.N. Convention on Torture.
The C.I.A. has the authority to carry out renditions under a presidential directive dating to the Clinton administration, which the Bush administration has reviewed and renewed. The C.I.A. declined to comment for this article.
~Doesn't this news put you in awe of both Clinton and Bush? To have the ability and to know the rightness, the triviality, in secretly sending human beings half-way around the world beyond the protection of all laws, for interrogations, for torture. What power. What majesty. Weaker men might not share that vision that insouciance.
Posted by Cieciel at December 29, 2004 03:05 AM