THE RENDITION TRADITION:

Obama Will Continue “Shipping Away Prisoners” (Matthew Rothschild, August 25, 2009, The Progressive)

It’s the story, I’m sorry to say, of another Obama betrayal.

When he was campaigning for President, he said we needed to end the practice of “shipping away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far-off countries.”

But now Obama has decided to continue the Bush policy—and I’m not going to use the euphemism of rendition, because it’s a policy of kidnapping.