On the campaign trail, President Barack Obama promised to end the use of torture, close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, and stop al-Qaida prison recruitment. He also pledged to end the use of ...
It is not a familiar word to most Americans, but it's been US policy since President Ronald Reagan approved it in 1986. "Rendition" is the practice of sending suspected terrorists to other countries ...
We may be finally learning more about the CIA's involvement in the 2003 abduction and rendition to torture of a Muslim cleric, Hassan Mustafa Nasr (aka Abu Omar). This week, Sabrina De Sousa confirmed ...
The use of "extreme rendition" is one of the most controversial legacies of President George W. Bush. It was so contentious that during the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to ...
The war against terrorism has been dramatized faster than any other military campaign in U.S. history. The latest film to capitalize on the intensity and controversy of American national security ...
With hearings in Congress, legal cases bouncing up to the Supreme Court and complaints from Canada and our European allies, the issue of rendition is everywhere. There's even a new, eponymously titled ...
On Monday, the Obama administration announced that it would continue the Bush administration practice of kidnapping individuals suspected of terrorism to other countries to be detained or interrogated ...
An Egyptian-born chemical engineer (Omar Metwally) is abruptly sent to a secret CIA prison, forcing his American wife (Reese Witherspoon) to solicit information ...