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And, yes, I DO take it personally: Some valuable background on "extraordinary rendition..."
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Monday, October 17, 2005

Some valuable background on "extraordinary rendition..."

If there are two men in the world who know about “extraordinary renditions” then they are Michael Scheuer, the CIA chief who invented the programme, and Craig Murray, the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan who saw first-hand the devastating consequences for British intelligence of using renditions.

In exclusive interviews with the Sunday Herald they blew apart any justification for the rendition system, saying the US government deliberately refused to opt for a legal alternative to renditions which was presented to the President by the CIA and that the programme undermined Western democracy, damaged the prosecution of the war on terror and “contaminated British and US intelligence”.

the herald presents us with very informative background both historically and contextually... "rendition" has only been in the public eye for a relatively short time and it's enlightening to have an insider's perspective... once again, we shouldn't have to be getting it from non-u.s. news sources...

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