Rendition!

What do you get when you close Gitmo and you close the CIA "black sites"? You get this (HT HA)

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.

Current and former U.S. intelligence officials said that 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.

The rendition program became a source of embarrassment for the CIA, and a target of international scorn, as details emerged in recent years of botched captures, mistaken identities and allegations that prisoners were turned over to countries where they were tortured.

The European Parliament condemned renditions as "an illegal instrument used by the United States." Prisoners swept up in the program have sued the CIA as well as a Boeing Co. subsidiary accused of working with the agency on dozens of rendition flights.

But the Obama administration appears to have determined that the rendition program was one component of the Bush administration's war on terrorism that it could not afford to discard.

Now don't get me wrong. I happen to think that President Obama, like President Bush before him, is absolutely correct in this. However, many of President Obama's supporters - as well as CANDIDATE Obama disagree with this President's decision.

I wonder if Reese Witherspoon will be making a movie about President Obama's rendition program anytime soon?