re: #446 Walter L. Newton

And what is Obama doing about these renditions?

One of Obama’s first acts was to pass an executive order titled “Ensuring Lawful Interrogations”:
whitehouse.gov

It addressed a number of aspects of detainee detention and treatment including outlawing extraordinary rendition (rendition for the purpose of torture-by-proxy) and established a Special Task Force where one part of its mission was as follows:

(ii) to study and evaluate the practices of transferring individuals to other nations in order to ensure that such practices comply with the domestic laws, international obligations, and policies of the United States and do not result in the transfer of individuals to other nations to face torture or otherwise for the purpose, or with the effect, of undermining or circumventing the commitments or obligations of the United States to ensure the humane treatment of individuals in its custody or control.

It also ordered CIA secret black sites closed:

(a) CIA Detention. The CIA shall close as expeditiously as possible any detention facilities that it currently operates and shall not operate any such detention facility in the future.