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Truth-Out
March 31, 2018
She played a pretty direct role in the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, and she's alleged to have overseen, specifically, the violent interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and [Abd al-Rahim] al-Nashiri. So it seems ... Under Obama, there was presumably an understanding that torture had been outlawed.
FAIR
March 22, 2018
MH: She played a pretty direct role in the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, and she's alleged to have overseen, specifically, the violent interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and [Abd al-Rahim] al-Nashiri. So it seems ... Under Obama, there was presumably an understanding that torture had been outlawed.
Asian Tribune
March 16, 2018
This is a stark contrast to the ultra-liberal policies of the previous Obama-Clinton administration whose foreign policy planks had become recurring headaches to ... Ms. Haspel played a direct role in the agency's “extraordinary rendition program” under which captured extremists were remanded to foreignÃâà...
The Intercept
March 14, 2018
She was also deeply involved with the CIA global kidnapping program — it's officially referred to as “extraordinary rendition” but it was a kidnapping program. ... And when Barack Obama tried to make John Brennan CIA director in his first term, there was a lot of pushback from the left and from liberals on theÃâà...
Business Insider
March 13, 2018
... oversaw the torture of a terror suspect— authorized by the Bush administration and later outlawed by President Barack Obama and Congress — at a secret CIA prison in Thailand in late 2002. She also helped facilitate the "extraordinary rendition program," in which the US government handed detaineesÃâà...
New York Times
March 13, 2018
... so directly involved in that frenzy of abuse, which began under President George W. Bush and was ended by President Barack Obama, as Gina Haspel. ... As an undercover C.I.A. officer, Ms. Haspel played a direct role in the agency's “extraordinary rendition program,” under which suspected militantsÃâà...
Quartz
March 13, 2018
That torture took place within the CIA's “extraordinary rendition” program, in which suspected terrorists are sent to US allies, and interrogated in “black sites” on their soil. One of the men, known as Abu Zubayda, was waterboarded 83 times in one month and was slammed into walls by the head. He wasÃâà...
PolitiFact
January 5, 2011
We conclude that Obama has partially met the promise by officially ending the practice of extraordinary rendition. No evidence has emerged that the administration has continued the policy of its predecessors surreptitiously. Still, too little is known about current activities to rate this a Promise Kept. Not evenÃâà...
gulfnews.com
December 31, 1999
The ghosts from Guantanamo Bay, Black Sites, Abu Ghraib and Extraordinary Rendition continue to haunt America with their prodigal presence. ... To this day, the US has yet to meet the challenge of regaining the moral high ground, that former president Obama had attempted to restore during his tenure asÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
December 31, 1999
Hillary Clinton, had she defeated Trump, would have been just as ferocious an ally of the security state as Obama. ... orchestrated in the name of national security, we have seen the growth of imperial apparatuses of torture, extraordinary rendition, secret prisons, “black sites,” drones, and statelessness.
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