Barack Obama to continue to allow anti-terror rendition

If we are not allowed to go beyond the Army Field Manual, Name, Rank, and Serial Number, what do we do with these people? The Police are allowed to question suspects for hours, yell at them and use some of the harsh interrogation techniques that are banned to the CIA and trained Military integrators. The US has bent over backwards to protect prisoners and other detainees. We have provide medical treatment beyond what is required and provide a diet that is culturally correct, not the same or similar to our troops, as required by the Geneva Convention. You probably missed the article several years ago where US Service men were barred by the US Government from suing to get paid for work done in the Japanese War Industry during WWII, again as required by the Geneva Convention. The US government gives more protection and rights to the foreign prisoners than its own citizens. Have we demanded war crimes be filed against North Viet Nam for the treatment of our service men who were POW's, no , yet we file criminal charges against US Service men and women who have offended prisoners. Tell me what are we to do with these people - give them milk and cookies and say "Please tell us where you have hidden the Nuclear bomb that will kill millions of innocent civilians"?

They should be treated like human being, not like children as you have insinuated. Human beings should be entitled to freedom against arbitrary arrest and a fair trail. Torture is not a tactic that works, when being tortured, those who are terrorists typically don't say anything because they are so devoted to their cause, and those who aren't terrorists lie and damn their own fate by telling interrogators what they want to hear to make the torture stop. That is not a system of justice. That is a system of barbary.

Have you read any of the accounts of the men who were taken under rendition? I suggest you do so before trying to claim that no prisoners of the US were actually physically tortured, as you are saying. I would also really like to know your opinion on Abu Ghraib and how after that the military still did not take steps to stop outsourcing their interrogators who did not adhere to the military code of conduct.

President Bush had the same thing dealing with Executive Orders of President Clinton to deal with. IF you remember it was the New York Times (NYT) that exposed the policy because the Public Had a Right to Know. Don't we have the same right to know now or have our rights CHANGED now that President Obama is President?

yes...we do or at least we should. I am not saying that this is right at all. I'm just saying that maybe we should just give him time to hopefully come up with a plan to make the changes in a way that is safe for all. our country is in such a mess right now....the changes we want and that should take place are not going to happen overnight. I am not saying you are wrong in your thoughts...just in all fairness that we should give him a chance before we jump his case. Obama was not my original voting choice either. I just happened to favor him over McCain. If McCain had won, I'd be the same.