Wednesday, February 18, 2009
No Brave New World - V
Preventive Detention
Labels: CIA Director, detainee, National Security Council, Obama, pentagon, Preventive Detention, prison
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Preventive Detention
''When the C.I.A. is given a task, it's usually because national policy makers don't want 'U.S. government' written all over it,'' said a retired C.I.A. Some of the C.I.A. planes have been used for carrying out renditions, the legal term for the agency's practice of seizing terrorism suspects in one foreign country and delivering them to be detained in another, including countries that routinely engage in torture.
Labels: CIA Director, detainee, National Security Council, Obama, pentagon, Preventive Detention, prison
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