Sunday, February 13, 2005
There he goes again.
Jody's post below about the case for extraordinary rendition has a lot of information about Aher I didn't know. Which is illuminating, certainly, but it doesn't change my basic point, which is that the United States is sending people to other countries to be tortured. I do think that's the primary purpose of extraordinary rendition, not deportation. In many cases, (Mamdouh Habib, for example), the United States
And Yoo and Gonzalez and Bybee and others at Justice and the White House have jumped through all kinds of loops to provide legal justifications to the executive branch for this kind of bad behavior, which by any application of the Plain Meaning Rule, violates international law, United States law, treaties we're signatory to, and U.N. resolutions. If you doubt that, read the Bybee memo. It's bad logic, bad policy, and bad law, all in one messy package.
What happened to the last leader who defied U.N. resolutions?
From Brazil:
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- has the suspect in custody
- sends them to Egypt, Syria, or Morocco where they are tortured and interrogated
- takes them back to Gitmo.
And Yoo and Gonzalez and Bybee and others at Justice and the White House have jumped through all kinds of loops to provide legal justifications to the executive branch for this kind of bad behavior, which by any application of the Plain Meaning Rule, violates international law, United States law, treaties we're signatory to, and U.N. resolutions. If you doubt that, read the Bybee memo. It's bad logic, bad policy, and bad law, all in one messy package.
What happened to the last leader who defied U.N. resolutions?
From Brazil:
JILL
Don't you know the sort of thing that
Information Retrieval does?
SAM
What do you mean? Would you rather
have terrorists?
JILL
We've got both.
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