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

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117. In your frenzied meltdown, you didn't read the links I provided...

...from The Washington Post and Public Citizen with corroboration from multiple independent sources.
I will repeat them in the hope that maybe the blindness has subsided.


Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns
Washington Post, 2013

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

Here is another one:

Somalia’s Prisons: The War on Terror’s Latest Front

So now it’s official: United States soldiers have been hunting down al Qaeda affiliates in Somalia. When the White House confirmed earlier this month what has long been an open secret, most of the ensuing chatter focused on the need for greater transparency about the expanding war on terror.

Less discussed was what happens to all those alleged terrorists when they’re captured alive.

Pentagon spokesman James Gregory wouldn’t confirm the number of prisoners the U.S. has sent to Bosaso, only that it has handed over prisoners, “back over to where they came from.” He said the U.S. is “returning them to their government, and their government takes them.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/27/somalia-s-prisons-the-war-on-terror-s-latest-front.html

So, depending on what the definition of the word "is" is,
in the most twisted sense, the US does NOT torture anymore.
What we DO is hand them over to [font size=3]KNOWN TORTURERS[/font] for their "interrogations" WITH US personnel in attendance.

Now if YOU want to slither under THAT bar to claim that there are no more "Renditions, and the US No Longer Tortures,
[font size=3]Please Proceed.[/font]



You will know them by their [font size=3]WORKS,[/font]
not by their speeches, promises, or excuses.