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Monday, February 02, 2009

Obama Preserves Renditions as Counter-terrorism Tool

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.

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He closes gitmo and doesn't want torture so he just ships suspects off to unknown countries where he can imprison and torture all he wants! Now Thats Change you can believe in!

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  1. You might be interested in reading another similar take on the unlikelihood of Obama actually changing anything. The article, entitled Connecting the Dots:Israel's Blood Fest Meets the Voice of the People as the Obama Show Begins, can be found here.

    Thanks for your post!

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Thanks for your comment it is much appreciated.