"Erroneous Rendition"

We've been reading about the CIA's "Renditions" for a couple years now. Here's a quick primer: Rendition = Kidnapping. Whether you agree or not, that's the deal. A 'terror suspect' is picked up off the street by black-clad CIA operatives working extra-judicially...which means with no judicial supervision other than themselves. Here's what happen according to the Washington Post:
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Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs. They outfit detainees in a diaper and jumpsuit for what can be a day-long trip. Their destinations: either a detention facility operated by cooperative countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, or one of the CIA's own covert prisons -- referred to in classified documents as "black sites," which at various times have been operated in eight countries, including several in Eastern Europe.
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An enema? Don't ask me.

The point of all of this is to protect us from future terror attacks. The full name for the process is 'Extraordinary Rendition'...now we have a new term: 'Erroneous Rendition'. What's that you say?


The gentlemen pictured above is Khaled Masri. He was the subject of an 'Extraordinary Rendition'. Turns out he did nothing wrong. Now he is classified as an 'Erroneous Rendition'. Whoops...sorry about that. These things happen. What did he have to say about his 'erroneous rendition':

"I have very bad feelings" about the United States, he said. "I think it's just like in the Arab countries: arresting people, treating them inhumanly and less than that, and with no rights and no laws."

Do you really feel safer? It's the Zoos opinion that we, the United States, have unleashed a tsunami of resentment and anger in our 'War on Terror' that we, and our children, and their children are going to be paying for in blood for decades to come...

Stay Naked.