A Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly report on US rendition practices is putting the Bush administration on the defensive. The council's report, released June 7, examines US efforts to counter ...

Past American statesmen ranging from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Robert F. Kennedy have pointed out the temptation to combat deplorable practices by adopting them. It’s a warning we’ve been slow to heed, ...

The use of "extreme rendition" is one of the most controversial legacies of President George W. Bush. It was so contentious that during the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to ...

Meanwhile President Bush publicly defended the practice of extraordinary rendition for the first time on Wednesday. Extraordinary rendition is the name of a little-discussed practice by which ...