When the Bush administration wants to detain and interrogate foreign nationals, but doing so in the United States would violate rights they are guarenteed here, the administration transports these individuals to countries without such protections, such as Morocco, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt, where they may be held without trial and tortured. This pratice is known as Extraordinary Rendition.
In the words of former CIA agent Robert Baer: "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear-- never to see them again--you send them to Egypt."
The ACLU estimates that over 150 foreign nationals have been victims of Extraordinary Rendition since 9/11.
-From Article I of House Resolution 1106: Article of Impeachment against George Walker Bush, President of the United States, introduced by Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) on Dec. 8, 2006
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