Hypocrisy, Obama

A day after it unveiled new recommendations on handling terrorism suspects, the Obama administration struggled to explain how it would be able to send detainees to countries with poor human rights records and prevent them from being tortured.

Government, Obama, Bigbrother

Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States.

Democrat, Hypocrisy, Obama, Terrorism, Justice

Obama also renewed the Bush policy of turning suspected terrorists over to U.S. allies, some of which were known to use torture. Obama pledged to monitor the rendition program to guard against the use of torture, but continued its use.

Hypocrisy, Obama

Two days after taking the helm of a country ready for change after eight years of George W. Bush, President Obama has allowed one controversial "War on Terror" tactic to remain in place: rendition. Despite frequent condemnation of the practice around the world, rendition -- the secret capture, transportation and detention of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons in countries that cooperate with the U.S. -- remains in the CIA's playbook, thanks to a Jan. 22 executive order issued by President Obama.

Hypocrisy, Obama

In his first few days in office, Mr Obama was lauded for rejecting policies of the George W Bush era, but it has emerged the CIA still has the authority to carry out renditions in which suspects are picked up and often sent to a third country for questioning. The practice caused outrage at the EU, after it was revealed the CIA had used secret prisons in Romania and Poland and airports such as Prestwick in Scotland to conduct up to 1,200 rendition flights. The European Parliament called renditions "an illegal instrument used by the United States".