Rendition! Sung to the tune of "Tradition!" from Fiddler on the Roof: Consider a new Report from the U.N. Special Rapporteur (.pdf), submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The Report documents the key events that led to the degradation of human rights conventions around the world over the last ...

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2006. (Photo: Ron Edmonds / AP) read more...

According to an article in tomorrow’s New York Times, documents that the United States and British governments under the Bush, Blair, Obama and Brown administrations have gone to court to prevent from being released support the allegations of Binyam Mohamed, who has been held for seven years i...

Title comes from an interesting piece in the New York Times, where it seems the Barack Oama administration is upholding some of the arguments first implemented by the Bush administration regarding state secrets, which has the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorney a little peeved. “This is...

You’ve heard by now, if you’re paying attention, that the presidential administration of Barack Obama has pulled out the national security card to declare that a legal case brought on behalf of five victims of torture cannot proceed. In case you haven’t been paying attention, let m...

some interesting background... Afshin Rattansi talks to former CIA official Ray McGovern about the consequences for the new head of the CIA and for the United States after Leon Panetta condemns torture, extraordinary rendition and those that were involved in it all. Also, will Cheney go to jail and ...

I told you. I damned well told you. Rendition is back, you pro-torturing, posturing, hypocritical Leftist fools: Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool The role of the CIA’s controversial prisoner-transfer program may expand, intelligence experts say. Under executive orders issue...

. IS OBAMA USING GATES TO TAKE THE BLAME? OR IS OBAMA BEING PLAYED BY THE HAWKS? Either Way, The Permanent Government Wins Again, Not Us, The Idiots Who Voted For Obama Less than a year ago, a few of us got interested in this young black guy from Chicago that said he was against war and torture and ...

Extraordinary Rendition There are some creepy parallels behind the thinking that led our country to whisk away detainees in the middle of the night, transport them in total secrecy to unnamed countries, where they could then be tortured, all outside the purview of civilian courts, military tribunals...

A first-class novel about the most pressing moral and political concerns of our time, not least the scandal of extraordinary rendition. John le Carré is at his shrewd and cynical best in a novel tackling the key moral issues of the day, writes Charles Cumming. Telegraph...