The international left labeled the practice as “outsourcing torture,” and the media spent oceans of ink denouncing it. And now the hopey changey Obama administration is expanding rendition programs. WASHINGTON - The CIA’s secret prisons are being closed. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to ...
Khaled el-Masri, the poster boy for the international left’s campaign against the CIA practice of “rendition,” has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of arson. Notice that Spiegel Online states as a fact that el-Masri was “tortured,” but doesn’t mention until the fifth paragraph that the only evidence of “torture” is ...
By the way, in case you missed it, the New York Times is also trying to damage the CIA’s formerly secret “rendition” program. Here’s a gushingly sympathetic portrait of an Algerian detained in Afghanistan after being expelled from Tanzania: Algerian Tells of Dark Term in U.S. Hands. The case of one ...