“What has made renditions so unpalatable is that after 9/11, when ‘the gloves came off,’ as some officials put it, so did the moral and legal standards that made rendition acceptable. In short, rendition has become a dirty word because it is now a shorthand for what some have called ‘the outsourcing of torture.’ That was not the case before the Twin Towers were destroyed.”

Daniel Benjamin argues that the United States’ use of rendition since 9/11 has endangered the future use of a useful intelligence technique. Pre-9/11, the US required guarantees that anyone who was “rendered” would be treated in accordance with international law. The fascinating article on Slate is here.

Posted Monday, February 5th, 2007 @ 9:18 am
Filed in human rights, politics

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