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http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/rendition.pdf
~Mr Michael Schuer's remarks begin a page 12.
No mention of how many 'targets' have gone through the CIA's rendition program since President Clinton initiated it and President Bush "made the already successful Rendition Program even more effective."
This statement: "from its start until today, the program was focused on senior al-Qaeda leaders and not aimed at the rank-and-file members. With only limited manpower to conduct the Rendition Program, CIA wanted to inflict as much damage on al-Qaeda as possible and therefore focused on senior leaders, financiers, terrorist operators, field commanders, strategists and logisticians."-- if true, has me wondering what the CIA does with their prisoners when they've no more use for them. Images of people wasting away in medieval dungeons, or shallow graves on the edge of farmers' fields come to mind.
Isn't it strange to talk about moving prisoners thousands of miles around the world and not wonder what's being done to their bodies? I'm not talking about torture here. I don't understand why no one's curious about their daily care and feeding. No one asks: "what's a typical day like for one of these CIA prisoners? what are their dreams and aspirations like now? what do their familes think? how do the prisoners adapt? etc.
The premise is: these are bad people, therefore don't ask?
Or the premise is: this is a matter of policy, the individual is irrelevant?