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22 Dec 2006, 9:38 am
We ’re seeing similar abuses of the national security claim in our challenges to warrantless NSA wiretapping, “extraordinary rendition, ” and the FBI's retaliatory firing of a whistleblower. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 9:34 am by charonqc
” Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative MP for Chichester and chairman of the all-party group on extraordinary rendition, said: “Any information that would have been available in the court cases and criminal investigations must be available to the [Gibson] inquiry. [read post]
22 Feb 2008, 5:15 am
  In other words, the Court did not go to the original source for the quote but relied on a secondary rendition. [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 8:45 pm
Lecturer Shaheed Fatima, a barrister with Blackstone Chambers in London, gave a recent talk examining human rights law in the U.K. and abroad since September 11, looking specifically at the human rights ramifications of the war in Iraq, pre-charge detention, the use of “control orders” restraining suspected terrorists, extraordinary rendition, and the admissibility (in U.K. legal proceedings) of evidence obtained from torture. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by John Jenkins
Highlights include: – The story behind the Dave & Marty puppet show – Marty’s game saving “play at the plate” for the Corp Fin softball team – Making a newcomer feel welcome – Spending time with Marty & his family – What it was like to be one of “Marty’s people” – Marty’s extraordinary ability as a teacher and mentor – Marty’s rendition of “Midnight Train to Georgia” The… [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 7:29 am by Lovechilde
As Davidson says, while we may not have committed torture ourselves of the prisoners we transferred to Syria via extraordinary rendition and we may not torture children, "we have used torture, and as we have learned in the Republican debates and on the floor of Congress, there is in no way a consensus that this is even a source of mild embarrassment. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 8:08 am by Lovechilde
Now, there is clearly a cause and effect between Bush's Iraq invasion and thousands of military and civilian deaths, a revitalized Taliban in Afghanistan, the spreading of Al Qaeda throughout the region, the strengthening of Iran, the tanking of the U.S. economy, and our disgraceful embrace of torture, extraordinary rendition, and other human rights violations. [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 11:50 am by Robert Chesney
  That is interesting insofar as it might be an illustration of rendition (not “extraordinary rendition,” as they say, but rather “rendition-to-justice”), and perhaps it will turn out that we had them in custody abroad–or had access to them while in someone else’s custody abroad–for some short-term period. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 12:03 am
Torture, warrantless wiretapping, extraordinary rendition are the most vividly visible examples. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 12:13 pm by Kim Zetter
” The highly charged reference is to the “extraordinary renditions” that the Central Intelligence Agency performed to illegally nab suspected terrorists and send them to countries overseas where they could be tortured in secret prisons. [read post]
22 May 2017, 6:31 am by Will Baude
You don’t need to look to Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition, or the CIA torture report to see government lawlessness gone unchecked. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 4:00 am by Alex Neve
Ahmad Abou-Elmaati, Abdullah Almalki and Muayyed Nureddin all suffered from a Canadian version of extraordinary rendition. [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 6:29 am
To that end, the NYTimes writes today: The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated a civil lawsuit brought against a government contractor by five victims of the extraordinary rendition program, under which foreigners were kidnapped and flown to other countries for interrogation and torture. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 10:55 pm by Wessen Jazrawi
Access to information in the US In more access to information news, the appeal by the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition (APPGER) – against the refusal to release information on extraordinary rendition – has been rejected. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 10:00 am by Ben Wizner
But to join the intelligence community during the Bush administration – the same gang that had brought us warrantless wiretapping, extraordinary rendition, and abusive watchlists –  was really climbing into the belly of the beast. [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 2:08 pm by Richard Primus
  (Unless one counts the rendition clauses of Article IV, they’re the only clauses in the Constitution that do that.) [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 9:25 am by Sara Robinson
Extraordinary Rendition The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the... [read post]
27 Oct 2015, 7:10 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
At least one writer has suggested that the Salem witchcraft trials have "disquieting the resonances in a post-9/11 world of extraordinary rendition and practices such as waterboarding. [read post]
19 May 2017, 12:56 pm by Guest Blogger
You don’t need to look to Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition, or the CIA torture report to see government lawlessness gone unchecked. [read post]