what do you think about Obama's rendition program?

Don't worry ... the media will 'nuance' Obama's decision to essentially do the same thing as Bush in many other things regarding 'national security' as well. Under Bush it was tyranny, but with Obama it is necessary for the security of the nation.

Read the whole article?

The decision to preserve the program did not draw major protests, even among human rights groups. Leaders of such organizations attribute that to a sense that nations need certain tools to combat terrorism.

"Under limited circumstances, there is a legitimate place" for renditions, said Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. "What I heard loud and clear from the president's order was that they want to design a system that doesn't result in people being sent to foreign dungeons to be tortured -- but that designing that system is going to take some time."

Malinowski said he had urged the Obama administration to stipulate that prisoners could be transferred only to countries where they would be guaranteed a public hearing in an official court. "Producing a prisoner before a real court is a key safeguard against torture, abuse and disappearance," Malinowski said.

I actually read the article, I still don't like rendition but Obama's version is for limited short term detention, not lock you up and throw away the key like the previous policy; also it is kept in place in this form only while it is being reviewed.

I will give it a little time, see what develops. But according to the article even major human rights groups, which are always after us, did not object to this particular provision. And yes, these groups go after the US no matter who is president.

Of the many things I had beef with when it came to the Bush administration, the rendition program was not one of them. Kill our people and our troops and prepare for electric shocks to the testicles. The only mistake Bush made was to publicly announce where the prisoners would be. Have masked men put them in tinted out black vans never to be seen or heard from again. However, Bush wasn't smart enough to keep the program secret.

I think he should send Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfawitz, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Really, the FOX morning crew, and Brit Hume all through it--just so they can all come back and tell us for sure that they were right, we weren't involved in torture. Lets keep cameras on them, do Pay Per View events nightly, and pay down some of this debt the Republicans ran sky high during their first 6 years of the Bush admin, when they controlled every single executive branch of gov't. That sounds reasonable to me.