On AlterNet: rendition

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "rendition"

Claim: CIA Sent Prisoners Abroad to Be Boiled Alive and 'Raped with Broken Bottles'

Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. November 6, 2009.

Former British ambassador alleges CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan.

Obama Brings Gitmo And Rendition To Bagram (And Not The Geneva Conventions)

Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. September 16, 2009.

The Obama administration has announced it will introduce a review system for the 600 prisoners at Bagram airbase. But a close look at the plan reveals cause for alarm.

Taibbi: No More Compromise -- Obama Must Wholly Reject Bush's Dictator Policies

Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. June 1, 2009.

The recent haggling over Guantanamo is such classic Democratic Party politics, it's almost laughable. Almost, except that it's, you know, revolting.

'These People Fear Prosecution': Why Bush's CIA Team Should Worry About Its Dark Embrace of Torture

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 11, 2009.

The New Yorker's Jane Mayer discusses the fallout from the Red Cross' shocking report on CIA torture and its serious legal implications.

Why Are Obama Lawyers Sticking to the Same Positions as Bush's DOJ?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 6, 2009.

In cases involving torture, rendition and Bush's 'lost' emails, Obama lawyers are making the same arguments as Bush's.

I Was Illegally Detained by the U.S. Government and Held in CIA-Run "Black Sites"

Mohamed Farag Bashmilah, Huffington Post. February 20, 2009.

The American public needs to face what has happened to those of us who were disappeared and mistreated in the name of their national security.

Rendition is a Horrible, Violent Crime in Any Form -- It Should Not Be U.S. Policy

Marjorie Cohn, Jurist Legal News and Research. February 16, 2009.

The U.S. government should disclose the names, fate, and whereabouts of all persons rendered by the CIA since 2001.

Liberal Bloggers Keep Torture Supporter Brennan Out of the CIA

ZP Heller, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. November 26, 2008.

Jane Hamsher and Rachel Maddow talk about yesterday's big news.

The Dark Side: Laura Flanders Talks Torture on GRITtv

Laura Flanders, Firedoglake AlterNet: Video. July 22, 2008.

Who will hold the architects of the war on terror accountable?

New Documents Declare Torture "Widespread and Systemic"

Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. May 14, 2008.

New documents obtained by the ACLU state that torture of prisoners in US custody abroad was "widespread and systemic."

CIA Admits to Existence of 7,000 Documents on Secret Detention, Rendition, and Torture

AlterNetApril 25, 2008.

The CIA has stonewalled Congressional oversight committees, claiming the documents are too sensitive to release.

Death Squads, Disappearances, and Torture -- from Latin America to Iraq

Greg Grandin, TomDispatch.com. December 13, 2007.

The 'War on Terror' continues the legacy of America's 'Dirty Wars.'

The Bush Era's Dark Legacy of Torture

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. October 27, 2007.

It is impossible to tell the difference between the dark stories emerging from Bush's "extraordinary renditions" policy and the Hollywood fiction about horrible torture.

Disappeared: Five Years in Guantanamo

Lou Dubose, The Washington Spectator. July 7, 2007.

In 2001, 19-year-old Murat Kurnaz was an innocent man caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Accused of being a terrorist, he spent five years in Guantanamo before being released -- now he's telling his story.

Torture Sours U.S.-Canadian Right-Wing Lovefest

Sarah Anderson, AlterNet. January 29, 2007.

Stephen Harper, Canada's conservative prime minister, campaigned on strengthening ties with the Bush administration. But the love affair has ended over the American "rendition" of a Canadian citizen to Syria.

Pentagon now set to conduct witch trials

Susan Wallace, AlterNet: PEEK. January 19, 2007.

Joshua Holland: I'm not sure what else you might call it …

"The Government has been both hypocritical and morally bankrupt"

Susan Wallace, AlterNet: PEEK. January 10, 2007.

Joshua Holland: Renditions, Gitmo's 5th anniversary and CIA agents on trial …