Obama Is Giving Up Some Executive Power, and He’ll Still Get No Credit

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69. We now "legally" outsource all our torture needs (renditions),

and the Obama Administration was able to make what was once "Illegal Spying" under Bush...NOW Perfectly "legal",
and at the same time, managed to excuse all the "illegal" spying of the Bush Adm.

The Obama Administration hasn't stepped back from these new Unitary Powers of the Presidency that were such an abridgement under Bush-the-Lesser.
It has codified them,
co-signed them,
reinforced them,
enhanced them,
expanded them,
and given them the Official Democratic Party Endorsement.
They are NOW "perfectly legal",
or at least that is what the note from his lawyer says.

So, YES, they ARE "token",
or if you prefer, "Window Dressing",
or if you prefer, Empty Gestures
with no real change behind the BS.

Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns

The men are the latest example of how the Obama administration has embraced rendition — the practice of holding and interrogating terrorism suspects in other countries without due process — despite widespread condemnation of the tactic in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-01/world/36323571_1_obama-administration-interrogation-drone-strikes

Somalia's Prisons: the War on Terror's Latest Front, Daily Beast, June 2012

The U.S. acknowledged it has a military presence in Somalia just last month. The warden at an overcrowded Somali prison says the Americans have sent him sixteen prisoners since 2009. A Pentagon spokesman says only that the U.S. has handed prisoners "back over to where they came from."

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-best-reporting-on-detention-and-rendition-under-obama

So, yeah, President Obama can stand at the podium and claim that the US does not torture,
but as long as we are sending our Terrorism Suspects to countries that DO torture for their "interrogations",
well, the claim that we "do not torture" is pretty empty,
isn't it.



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