re: #325 Killgore Trout

I wouldn’t bet on that. We’ve been runing black sites and secret prisons for a very long time and I don’t think the practice has suddenly vanished under Obama. The NSA and other agencies have a lot of leeway and I don’t think Obama could personally stop the practice even if he wanted to.

Bullseye.

From Wiki:

According to Clinton administration official Richard Clarke:
“’extraordinary renditions’, were operations to apprehend terrorists abroad, usually without the knowledge of and almost always without public acknowledgment of the host government…. The first time I proposed a snatch, in 1993, the White House Counsel, Lloyd Cutler, demanded a meeting with the President to explain how it violated international law. Clinton had seemed to be siding with Cutler until Al Gore belatedly joined the meeting, having just flown overnight from South Africa. Clinton recapped the arguments on both sides for Gore: “Lloyd says this. Dick says that. Gore laughed and said, ‘That’s a no-brainer. Of course it’s a violation of international law, that’s why it’s a covert action. The guy is a terrorist. Go grab his ass.’”