Im totally freaked out about rendition.?

Question

I have just finished watching video footage of foreign nationals living in America who have been abducted and flown to various countries including Afganistan, Yemmen, Syria, Jordan, and Morroco to face months of torture, humiliation, desperation and inhumane incarceration in order to elicit information they honestly don't have. I don't understand how the CIA or the American Government can justify this (actually they don't - Bush claims they are not tortured and when asked to comment the CIA claim National security, meaning that they have no comment). Im top of the list for fighting terrorism - but how does this make us any better than them? I'm really scared by the way the world is spinning.

Answer 1

It is very true. Right at this moment, 14 American CIA operatives are wanted by the Italian courts for kidnapping (Extra-Ordinary Rendition) of an Egyptian national in Italy. Of course, the operatives sneaked back to the US just before the warrant for their arrests were served by the Italian courts. They are now being tried in absentia in Italy. The arrest warrants were eventually submitted to the American Embassy together with a request for the extradition of those accused. But I doubt if the American government will take any action on this matter at all.

There is another similar case pending in Germany (though I am not so familiar on this particular one). But a few months back, Angela Merkel (German Chancellor) issued a statement declaring "Extra-Ordinary Rendition" as illegal. Any CIA operative (foreign or local) who carry-out such activities in German soil will be arrested and will be tried criminally in German courts.

Answer 2

Gee! I once watched a movie about martians invading the planet earth. It was fiction too. Extraordinary rendition has never been used to spirit foreign nationals from U.S. soil to another nation. We may have used it to move foreign nationals between foreign countries, but most of that is pure conjecture as well, the efforts of certain European politicians to prove it notwithstanding.
If this video footage you watched really dealt with the release of detainees from Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to other countries that's another matter. But, we seem to be damned if we keep people at Gitmo and damned if we let them go.