CIA renditions began under Clinton

"The US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) controversial "rendition" program was launched under US president Bill Clinton, a former US counter-terrorism agent has told a German newspaper."

"Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA who resigned from the agency in 2004, has told Die Zeit that the US administration had been looking in the mid-1990s for a way to combat the terrorist threat and circumvent the cumbersome US legal system."

While there have been efforts by the current administration to plant fake news stories, insist it's current policies were either already in existence, or their legal precedence were previously established, deny, deny, deny......., I have no reason to believe this story's false.

Throughout the Clinton administration there were numerous attempts, some successful, to circumvent the law, as well as create new laws aimed at chipping away at the very liberties that were lost under Bush. The only thing that prevented a number of the Patriot Acts' items from being implimented back then, was the fact that we still had two parties operating in Washington. That's why it didn't take long for the Patriot Act to be drafted and pushed into law; most of it was already on the governments' wish list, long before most of us ever knew there was a Bush junior. Now, with a one-party system, there's very little to stop the administrations' grab for authority it doesn't have, or is explicitly prohibited from attaining. If you remember, there were almost as many warnings against the erosion of civil liberties and foreign intreventions then, as now.

It's the current one-party system that's at the heart of why Clinton was under impeachment for such an insignificant reason such as lying about being an adulterer, while Bush, with all the evidence that lies, and crimes against the Constitution and the American people have been committed, some resulting in the continuing deaths of thousands of Americans in a war that was clearly unnecessary, haven't yet resulted in much of anything.

Checks and balances all but disappear during a one-party system, and you can believe that extreme corruption would also take place if we had a Democratic Presidency and Democratic domination of the Legislature. It's important to understand that a balance in government is needed, where both parties have enough power to check the other. Do not wish for Democratic dominance to put a stop to this type of corruption, you'll simply be trading this mess, for another.

It's been almost ten days since I posted both Congressman John Conyers' Iraq Report, as well as his House Resolutions calling for censure of the President and Vice President, yet, even though the Legislature is on holiday, there's been practically no media attention to it. Very strange, don't you think? The evidence they contain is very extensive, yet the silence is deafening. I hope after the holiday is over, action can be taken on those charges, beyond lip-service.