When the issue flared shortly after his inauguration, senior administration officials were quick to say that abuses including torture would end, but that "ordinary" renditions - the spiriting away of suspects from other countries without going through the formal process of extradition -- would be continued in a cleaned-up form.
But the judge said there appeared to be a "potentially well-founded claim that the UK authorities were directly implicated in the extra-ordinary rendition of the claimants".
Now he is one of six men suing the UK Government for colluding in their unlawful extra-ordinary rendition to Guantanamo and to torture during the course of their detention.
Taking its title from a 1986 album by the British band the Smiths, it consists of Turkish youths performing touching, enthusiastic but otherwise ordinary karaoke renditions of the album's tuneful odes to youthful malaise and rebellion.
In a way, the whole film is a startling twist on the black art of rendition: ordinary citizens, often unaware of their own guilt, are spirited off to a secure environment in Eastern Europe, there to be forced into a humiliating and often painful confession of sins past.
In its raw rendition of ordinary tragedy, the sketch compares with the most strident portraits that Goya would draw 250 years later.
Pharrell Williams, John Legend, U2 and Idina Menzel also performed at the Dolby Theater tonight, the Irish band giving a rendition of "Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom and Menzel singing "Let It Go" from Disney's Frozen.
It didn't matter that heavy-hitting opener John Legend had just crooned his heart out in a moving rendition of "Ordinary People".
Along with several drawings and much of "The Music Room" work, he supplied ephemera from "The Store," a 1961 project for which he rented a Lower East Side storefront and used it to sell plaster renditions of ordinary household goods.
Her essays examine love within a family, not just the dependable ordinary variety but the extreme renditions in which affection hardens into idolatry, with one human mistaken for a god and another cast as a supplicant.
In his fictionalized renditions, a seemingly ordinary man and a woman (a massage-parlor receptionist played by Mr. Jia's wife and his regular star, Zhao Tao) respond to the pressures of their otherwise unremarkable lives with violence that is at once emotionally, horrifyingly realistic and visually baroque.
