The beauty of rendition is in the eye of the Holder.
Rendition was a matter of intense debate just a few months ago. But what’s a few months of changing political fortune worth? Apparently the ability to completely reverse your position.
Liberals condemned rendition during the Bush administration because it lacked judicial oversight, did not afford individuals access to counsel, and because it often subjected persons to torture and longterm detention. Because Obama has ordered governmental interrogators not to engage in torture and has ordered the CIA to close its longterm detention centers, liberals now say that rendition does not raise any problems. Apparently, snatching someone without a court order, not giving them a lawyer, and then placing them in a remote country were never too much of a problem after all.
Um, if your position then was so moral and nuanced, how so now? The pride of the progressive is now not only a superior command of cognitive dissonance, but also of its efficient production.
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