WTF: Obama !!!

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please read my most recent post, which states that this story is bogus, a lie, and definetly untrue, and when LA Times when chose to report this story they got punk'd.

Obama preserves rendition two days after taking office

I guess this is what he means when he says that he is going to be president to both Red and Blue America. The tortures are just blushing with admiration for this guy right about now.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_preserves_rendition_in__0201.html

Excerpts from wiki article follows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

While legal rendition has been used by the United States increasingly since the 1980s as a method for dealing with foreign defendants[citation needed], extraordinary rendition is a wholly extra-legal process that differs in its nature and usage as a tool in the US-led "war on terror". Modern methods of rendition include a form where suspects are taken into US custody but delivered to a third-party state, often without ever being on American soil, and without involving the rendering country's judiciary; they have been termed "extraordinary rendition".[citation needed] The CIA was granted permission to use rendition in a presidential directive signed by President Bill Clinton in 1995, and the practice has grown sharply since the September 11 terrorist attacks.[citation needed]

Critics have accused the CIA of rendering suspects to other countries in order to avoid US laws proscribing due process and prohibiting torture, even though many of those countries have, like the US, signed or ratified the United Nations Convention Against Torture. Critics have also called this practice "torture flights". Defenders of the practice argue that culturally-informed and native-language interrogations are more successful in gaining information from suspects.

In a number of cases, suspects to whom the procedure is believed to have been applied later were found to be innocent. In the cases of Khalid El-Masri and Maher Arar the practice of extraordinary rendition appears to have been applied to innocent civilians, and the CIA has reportedly launched an investigation into such cases (which it refers to as "erroneous rendition").

The first well-known rendition case involved the Achille Lauro hijackers in 1985: while in international air space they were forced by United States Navy fighter planes to land at the Naval Air Station Sigonella, an Italian military base in Sicily used by the U.S. Navy and NATO, in an attempt to place them within judicial reach of United States Government representatives for transport to and trial in the United States.