re: #468 drcordell

I am making perfect sense. What is the point of rendering suspects and turning them over to a foreign government for interrogation if they are going to treat them exactly how we would have? It makes no sense.

There are two plausible explanations for this in my mind. One, is that Obama felt political pressure to keep the renditions program because he didn’t want to open himself up to GOP “weak on terror” political attacks. So he says we are ending torture, but not ending the renditions program. He gets to cover himself from both the right and the left.

The other explanation is that yes, we still are authorizing the torture of prisoners we captured at the hands of foreign governments. And that Obama simply is lying about it.

What the truth is, I don’t know. And unfortunately I doubt that we’ll find out any time soon.

You have any problem with a rendition program that forgoes torture?