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   Holder Says He Approved Clinton-era Renditions                    : Information Clearing House - ICH

Holder Says He Approved Clinton-era Renditions

By Stephen C. Webster

May 08, 2009 “Raw Story” — Under fire from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that he had approved of rendition — essentially, legalized kidnapping — apparently more than once during his tenure as President Bill Clinton’s deputy attorney general.

Cautioning Holder that any potential investigation into the Bush administration’s torture program could result in Democrats being roped in, “Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Richard Shelby of Alabama pressed Holder on the CIA’s ‘rendition’ program that moved terrorism suspects from one country to another,” reported Domenico Montanaro with MSNBC.

“Didn’t that happen during the Clinton administration?

“Yes, Holder said.

“‘How many did you approve?’ they asked.

“Holder said he’d check the record.”

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.

Under President George W. Bush, renditions became “extraordinary renditions,” in which suspects were handed over to nations where torture was not illegal. Rendition under Presidents Clinton and Obama has not been linked to torture.

Holder has been, at least in public, an opponent of the torture program.

Holder Says He Approved Clinton-era Renditions                    : Information Clearing House - ICH.

May 8th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: authoritarianism, imperialism, kidnapping, militarism, military/industrial complex, torture, totalitarianism/corporatism/fascism, vampire elite, war crimes | Leave a comment |

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