Where Does Michael Land On This Issue
Monday, February 2nd, 2009Apparently Obama has approved of using rendition.
Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States.
Current and former U.S. intelligence officials said that the rendition program might be poised to play an expanded role going forward because it was the main remaining mechanism — aside from Predator missile strikes — for taking suspected terrorists off the street.
While it’s not okay to detain individuals indefinitely at Gitmo, where some judicial oversight was mandated, its okay to have them secretly transported to other countries who may in fact detain them indefinitely without any kind of judicial overview. There seems to be some kind of contradiction between these two policies. How does Michael feel about this?
