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Dec. 8th, 2005 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrPlease explain how this is not acting like the very terrorists we are supposed to be fighting? Not merely the man grabbed by mistake, but the entire idea of "renditions". I fail to see any significant difference between it and a typical terrorist kidnapping.
Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake
Innocent German beaten by US jailers
Frankly. I don't see any way that this whole "rendition" process can be legal. Regardless of any laws we may pass, it has to violate treaties and international law. We're choosing expediency over legality (to say nothing of ethics and "morals").
Then add this:
Tens of thousands mistakenly matched to terrorist watch lists
Not quite as serious, but the problems are a lot worse than the article says. And "Secure Flight" is merely a renaming of a program that Congress ordered the TSA to drop because it was so intrusive (collecting huge amounts of private data and not having anything resembling a method to correct errors).
The TSA is still violating the rules Congress laid out for any such program. And they can't seem to grasp the idea that they have to work within them and that they have to make sure they have a legal right to the data they want to collect, nor that they have to build in a mechanism for verifying the accuracy of data and for correcting errors, not bolt them on as an afterthought
Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake
Innocent German beaten by US jailers
Frankly. I don't see any way that this whole "rendition" process can be legal. Regardless of any laws we may pass, it has to violate treaties and international law. We're choosing expediency over legality (to say nothing of ethics and "morals").
Then add this:
Tens of thousands mistakenly matched to terrorist watch lists
Not quite as serious, but the problems are a lot worse than the article says. And "Secure Flight" is merely a renaming of a program that Congress ordered the TSA to drop because it was so intrusive (collecting huge amounts of private data and not having anything resembling a method to correct errors).
The TSA is still violating the rules Congress laid out for any such program. And they can't seem to grasp the idea that they have to work within them and that they have to make sure they have a legal right to the data they want to collect, nor that they have to build in a mechanism for verifying the accuracy of data and for correcting errors, not bolt them on as an afterthought
