{"id":4756,"date":"2009-05-11T06:05:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T11:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2009-05-11T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T11:34:00","slug":"legal-humanitarianism-for-thee-but-not-for-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4756","title":{"rendered":"Legal Humanitarianism For Thee, But Not For We"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember for the past eight years?\u00a0 When &#8220;Rendition&#8221; &#8211; grabbing a terror suspect and sending them quasi-legally to a country with more casual laws about coercion and suspects rights, was the subject of boundless ire?\u00a0 And even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epinions.com\/content_407049178756\">Meryl Streep JDAM of a movie<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>No?<\/p>\n<p>Either does <a href=\"http:\/\/informationclearinghouse.info\/article22569.htm\">The One&#8217;s Attorney General:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cautioning Holder that any potential investigation into the Bush administration\u2019s torture program could result in Democrats being roped in, \u201cLamar Alexander of Tennessee and Richard Shelby of Alabama pressed Holder on the CIA\u2019s \u2018rendition\u2019 program that moved terrorism suspects from one country to another,\u201d reported Domenico Montanaro with MSNBC.\u201cDidn\u2019t that happen during the Clinton administration?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Holder said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018How many did you approve?\u2019 they asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHolder said he\u2019d check the record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite frequent condemnation of the practice around the world, rendition \u2014 the secret capture, transportation and detention of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons in countries that cooperate with the U.S. \u2014 remains in the CIA\u2019s playbook, thanks to a Jan. 22 executive order issued by President Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given The One&#8217;s reversals on Guantanamo, coercive interrogation and tribunals, expect to see&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A media\/administration campaign showing that terrorists are bad people who don&#8217;t deserve due process, and<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood movies that show terrorists killing Americans, possibly (although this is unlikely) without the aid of secret vatican orders or groups of rural fundamentalist Christians.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Count on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember for the past eight years?\u00a0 When &#8220;Rendition&#8221; &#8211; grabbing a terror suspect and sending them quasi-legally to a country with more casual laws about coercion and suspects rights, was the subject of boundless ire?\u00a0 And even a Meryl Streep JDAM of a movie? No? Either does The One&#8217;s Attorney General: Cautioning Holder that any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}