Obama executive orders continue “extraordinary renditions,” secret CIA prisons

Obama executive orders continue “extraordinary renditions,” secret CIA prisons: "Analysis of the executive orders US President Barack Obama signed on January 22 shows that the Untied States will continue to be heavily involved in illegal practices including kidnapping, secret detention and torture. The orders ostensibly ended torture and a network of secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prison camps.

The Los Angeles Times published a report on the executive orders, however, showing that they allow the continued use of 'extraordinary rendition' by the CIA, whereby the US secretly abducts individuals it claims are terrorists, sending them to nations that practice torture. (See 'Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool.')

Obama is not only contemplating preserving rendition; he foresees using it more than the Bush administration. The Los Angeles Times cites unnamed US intelligence officials who say, 'The rendition program might be poised to play an expanded role going forward because it was the main remaining mechanism—aside from Predator missile strikes—for taking suspected terrorists off the street.'"