Despicable

This is the kind of stuff that  makes your stomach turn. Of course, I'm not surprised. This kind of stuff is very well-documented in Charlie Savage's book, Takeover. It's just another cog in the alarmingly brazen attempt by the Bush Administration to expand Presidential Powers beyond anything imaginable. 

What does bother me is that Obama will not completely denounce and end the practice of extraordinary rendition. Even if we don't send suspects to countries that torture, it's a tainted practice and perception is reality. Other nations won't believe us just because we say so. We lost that credibility.