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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
if the jurisdiction does not reach beyond our borders, then explain extraordinary rendition. If there is a legal precedent to operate 'black sites' then there must be documentation. The executive branch is not an autonomous organization and MUST have oversight from congress. I'm simply not understanding why, if these are legal, that those in the government refuse to confirm or deny their existence. The only reasonable deduction would be that they are illegal, or at least a gray area, and would only serve to outrage the american people in to a backlash against the government.
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Extraordinary rendition is returning a person to their own home country or to a country that will take them because we don't want them anymore. It's not like we're going to take them home and keep them staked out in the back yard and water them twice a day. There doesn't need to be a legal precedent for the CIA to operate a facility, only an order from the executive branch. Of course there's going to be documentation. I'm willing to bet it all has a great big TOP SECRET stamped on it. That would mean we probably won't see even the blacked out versions for another ten years or so. The only REASONABLE deduction is that the existence and location of those facilities is that the information is CLASSIFIED and, therefore, not subject to public release. No grey to it. Its release would only serve to act against the security of the United States and our lawful operations.