Sam, I'll worry about Clinton when he is back in power. Meanwhile, the
guy who is.... well, I am sure his officials do say that. It's a prime
example of the type of reporting discussed above. I am very willing to
believe that they say that. But are they right? Are they lying? Who
knows?

Dana


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:36:08 -0800, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> U.S. officials have privately described the threat of rendition as a
> powerful tool in prying loose information from suspects who fear
> torture by foreign countries.
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15130-2005Mar7.html
> 
> And Rush has reported on this:
> 
> RUSH(January 6, 2005): Michael Ledeen, National Review Online,
> contributing editor today, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise
> Institute, has a piece today on these hearings and what they all mean,
> but there's an interesting paragraph that I want to share with
> you.(http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200501060830.asp) He
> says, "I doubt anyone in this administration is gonna point out that
> the most controversial and ethically mention of all torture was
> developed during the Clinton administration, in direct response to
> orders that came directly from the White House." Rendition is what it
> was called. I don't know what it is. I don't know what the
> questionable ethically questionable method of torture was, but it was
> called "rendition." It was a Clinton creation. "It was approved by
> Clinton's lawyers with no apparent cries of pain either from the
> justice department or from anybody else in the congressional oversight
> community. Gonzales might quietly make that point if anybody yells at
> him. It won't register with the Democrats but it might help the public
> understand the real world a little bit better."
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:55:42 -0600, Dana  wrote:
> > Seriously Sam, can you defend this stuff?
> >
> > Dana
> >
> > http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/11076647.htm
> >
> > Posted on Tue, Mar. 08, 2005
> >
> > Gonzales defends transfers in terror cases
> >
> > By Mark Sherman
> 
> 

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