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Originally Posted by Cal-Gal
I think the point - as Cowperson pointed out - is that the article makes reference to mistakes the "Bush administration" made in 1998. Jr. Bush didn't become President until 2000....well January 2001 if we're splitting hairs, and Bush Sr.'s administration ended in '92.
Are they comparing a Britsh policy from 1998 to an early 90s US policy or to the current US policy?? I'm not sure. Or maybe I'm reading the article totally wrong...
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IMO, you're reading it wrong, though it's somewhat understandable as the article's poorly written.
As I pointed out above, the article is about rendition policies -- "the practice of flying detainees to places where they may be tortured."
MI6's refusal to hand over Bin Laden (in fact or in effect) to the CIA without assurances about his treatment is used to show that they followed general international norms.
The criticism in the report (and thus article) concerning "the Bush administration's approval of practices which would be illegal if carried out by British agents" refers not the CIA's policies in 1998, but to the current admistration's well known policy of sending prisoners off to Syria (IIRC) knowing full well they'd be tortured, complelely in the face if international rendition laws.