Feb 03 2009
Groundhog day
Didn’t I just post a whole bunch of ridiculousness yesterday? What day is this? Is this February 2, 2009? Can’t be. Anyway I love that movie—Groundhog Day with Bill Murray.
Phil: Do you know what today is?
Rita: No, what?
Phil: Today is tomorrow. It happened.
Wait! What?
Do you take requests? Can you do a rendition of rendition? Of course you can!
Ok, already an UPDATE: Hypocrites! Come Out and Plaaaaay!
If you care, for the record:
Rendition—fine for Bill Clinton, not fine for George W Bush, FINE for PBO—President Barack Obama…
Hypocrisy!—again, this is more of a criticism of the critiques than the people in charge—when it comes down to it, they make the hard decisions—sometimes…
From the lovely AnchoressOnline: A Kinder, Gentler Rendition: President Obama is preserving rendition. Actually he is expanding them. Someone – I forget who – in my morning reading explained that when Clinton (who developed the rendition policy) and Obama use rendition, it’s okay, because “they won’t support torture and I believe them!). Rendition under the previous administration was, of course, an unambiguous war crime. Yes, I’m rolling my eyes.
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Surprise! Obama expands renditions by Ed Morrissey at Hotair
For the last seven years, the Left has screeched hysterically over the CIA practice of rendition, in which agents turn detainees over to authorities in their home country for interrogation. Never mind that the practice started in the Clinton administration, and never mind that the other options were Guantanamo Bay, release, or two caps in the back of the head; they pilloried Bush over renditions as if he’d thought them up himself. Hollywood even made a movie about how awful the process is, apparently matched in awfulness only by the film’s box office.
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LA Times: Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool By Greg Miller
February 1, 2009The role of the CIA’s controversial prisoner-transfer program may expand, intelligence experts say.
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.
Reporting from Washington — The CIA’s secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to being a wind-swept naval base on the southeastern corner of Cuba.
But even while dismantling these programs, President Obama left intact an equally controversial counter-terrorism tool.
