Extraordinary Hearing On Extraordinary Rendition

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EXTRAORDINARY HEARING ON EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION

Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-06-22 16:34. Congress
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing last April on the
policy of "extraordinary rendition," referring to the seizure of
suspected terrorists and their transfer to a foreign country for
detention and interrogation.

The record of the hearing, which has just been published, features the
volatile Michael Scheuer, a former CIA official involved in the
rendition program. It is exceptionally nasty and occasionally funny.

Mr. Scheuer, veering from outrageous to absurd and back again, attacked
John McCain, the Washington Post's Dana Priest and quite a few others in
remarkably offensive terms.

See "Extraordinary Rendition in U.S. Counterterrorism Policy: The
Impact on Transatlantic Relations," House Foreign Affairs Committee,
April 17, 2007:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/rendition.pdf

"Oftentimes," Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) delicately observed, "people aspire
to a higher percentage of their thoughts going unspoken than this
hearing has demonstrated."