Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.
Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.
Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.
Renditions before and since 9/11 share some basic features. They have been conducted lawfully, responsibly and with a clear and single purpose: Get terrorists off the street and gain intelligence on those still at large. Our detention and interrogation programs flow from the same inescapable logic.