Rendition to continue

When a friend told me about this, I said, "That can't be true." I am so disappointed in Obama! If you don't want them tortured then why are you sending them to another country? I feel sick.

NY Times
August 25, 2009
U.S. Says Rendition to Continue, but With More Oversight
by David Johnston

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terrorism suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but pledges to closely monitor their treatment to ensure that they are not tortured, administration officials said Monday.

. . . as a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama had strongly suggested he might end the practice. In an article in Foreign Affairs in the summer of 2007, Mr. Obama wrote, “To build a better, freer world, we must first behave in ways that reflect the decency and aspirations of the American people. This means ending the practices of shipping away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far-off countries, of detaining thousands without charge or trial, of maintaining a network of secret prisons to jail people beyond the reach of the law.”