International legal obligations, he says, "are of sufficient force to cover rendition, which amounts to a conspiracy of torture, or at least an act of aiding and abetting it".The UK, now it has been made aware of the illegal use of Diego Garcia, has a duty not to renew the lease.
This is the first court to comprehensively and specifically find that the CIA's rendition techniques amounted to torture.
I recognize much has been done to damage Al Qaeda's networks but, make no mistake, no amount of "rendition" of bin Laden lieutenants can mask our failure to bring to justice the man who ordered 9/11.
Allowing him to go to Pakistan rather than charging him in Britain, and then getting the Pakistani services to ask him a list of questions using their well-known persuasive methods, amounts to "passive rendition", he said.In this section The devil's punchbowl Extraction My Uncle Albion Hedge-fun managers Missed opportunity Ready for the chop?
They were allegedly beaten, subjected to mock execution, and then flown to the UK against their will in circumstances that their lawyers say amounted to a "rendition" operation.
Yet in the Nighthawks' rendition, there's a surprising amount of power under the music's sunny exterior; it's as if you opened the hood of one of those cute new Volkswagens and found a V-8 engine.
Although publicly condemning abusive interrogation methods, has the U.S. created a new proxy detention system that amounts to extraordinary rendition-lite?
And, yet, Sissy may as well be clothed for all that is revealed about her character, despite her physical nudity, her painfully slow rendition of "New York, New York," and what definitely amounts to a genuine and wrenching performance.
All that matters is what his performance amounted to – a virtuosic rendition of three pieces often relegated to the tiny "classical" pile in the CD shop.
The groups say the agency's rendition and treatment of terror suspects amounted to "a vast criminal conspiracy, under color of law, to commit torture and other serious crimes".
