Posted by Jonathan Adler:
Panetta on Obama Rendition Policy:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_02_01-2009_02_07.shtml#1233969270
The AP [1]reports:
The United States will continue to hand foreign detainees over to
other countries for questioning, but only with assurances they will
not be tortured, Leon Panetta told a Senate committee considering
his confirmation as CIA director.
That has long been U.S. policy, but some former prisoners subjected
to the process � known as extraordinary rendition_ during the Bush
administration's anti-terror war say they were tortured.
"I will seek the same kind of assurances that they will not be
treated inhumanely," Panetta said Friday in his second day before
the Senate Intelligence Committee. "I intend to use the State
Department to be sure those assurances are implemented and stood
by, by those countries." . . .
Panetta said the Obama administration will no longer move detainees
to secret CIA prisons for interrogation, because the so-called
"black sites" have been ordered closed. But it will move prisoners
to other countries for prosecution, he said.
References
1.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iNqjrsQ96LSw38bHitcinz_SQAWgD966663O1
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