There is ... a contradiction in the president's stated objective to use torture-free rendition as an effective counterterrorist weapon, to wit: Some of the countries to which prisoners have been rendered do use torture. Morally, operationally, and politically, then, the United States has got itself into a muddle through its embrace of rendition -- that is, the transfer of American-held terrorists and terrorist suspects into the hands of foreign security and intelligence services...(for publication 05/16/05)

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from The Weekly Standard, by Reuel Marc Gerecht


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp