According to a BBC News story, the American Civil Liberties Union "is taking the CIA to court to stop the transportation of terror suspects to countries outside US legal authority." Because the United States is bound by international law against torture, the US authorities just outsource the job.
Top officials say that they get the word of the receiving country that they will not use torture, but that’s it. The US never knows if torture really goes on. And in places like Egypt, one location of the rendition, they use torture as one of the primary ways to extract information. This has been in the news lately because European countries are looking into if there airports were a stop of the airplanes that were illegally transporting the prisoners to be rendered.
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