Bob Grenier Interview

This is a link to a rare interview with Robert Grenier, after his “firing” as head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. On the NPR site, you can listen to the entire interview with Mary Louise Kelly.
All Things Considered, June 28, 2006
Bob Grenier was was removed in February from his job leading the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. [...]

EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION IN U.S. Counterterrorism Policy: The Impact on Transatlantic Relations

This is the full transcript of a Joint Hearing conducted by the Committee on Foreign Affairs to discuss the impact of Extraordinary Rendition on US Foreign Relations. Held April 17, 2007.
Read the full transcript here

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) on CIA Detainees

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Speaks before the Foriegn Affairs Subcommittee on Human Rights. Originally broadcast on C-SPAN2

‘Renditions save lives’: Condoleezza Rice’s statement

Originally posted on December 5, 2005
by Times Online
…For decades, the United States and other countries have used “renditions” to transport terrorist suspects from the country where they were captured to their home country or to other countries where they can be questioned, held, or brought to justice.
In some situations a terrorist suspect can be extradited [...]

Airport Security Gets More Creative

Originally posted on Sep 10th 2007, by Jeff Hoard
on AOL News
These are RECENT stories about airport security crackdowns.
This is an account of a journalist detained at LAX for not having a journalists’ VISA:
Click here to view.
A seven-year-old Muslim boy was detained in Florida for sharing his name with a Pakistani man who had been previously [...]

July 26, 2007 US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Testimony

Originally posted
by Human Rights Watch.
Extraordinary Rendition, Extraterritorial Detention, and Treatment of Detainees: Restoring Our Moral Credibility and Strengthening Our Diplomatic Standing
Testimony by Tom Malinowski, Human Rights Watch Washington advocacy director
US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
July 26, 2007
Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing and for inviting me to testify.
When I joined the [...]

A ‘Re-defining’ Moment…

Here’s an interview with Jonathan Turley from Washington University on MSNBC. “A ‘re-defining’ moment in our history…”

President Bush and Matt Lauer Talk International Law

This was last year, five years after 9/11. Matt Lauer is questioning Bush about tactics used to gain information about terrorist threats, and whether or not these tactics fall inside of International Law.

Another Look

This is a very interesting and short article by David Ignatius from the Washington Post that highlights the distinction between rendition and torture. While these terms are sometimes used synonymously , it might serve the issue better to aproach them separately. As Mr. Ignatius says, “…the debate has tended to lump rendition and torture together.”
Note [...]

A Little History…

Originally posted on Feb.8th, 2005
by Common Dreams
In 1998, Congress passed legislation declaring that it is “the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to [...]