Julianne Smith, Director of the Europe Program at CSIS and Member of the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Initiative, warns the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs that America’s liberal use of extraordinary rendition is eroding trust across the Atlantic. Allowing unfavorable European public opinion to dictate American policy would be a mistake, but the US must view its intelligence and
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Daniel Benjamin writes in Slate that among the many disputed actions taken by the United States government following September 11, those predicated on faulty intelligence and the irresponsible treatment of prisoners have incited particular condemnation by the international community. Specifically, US reliance on renditions as a method of counterrorism
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