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No, the OP suggesting there is a moral equivalence between both when there isn’t.

• bawolff 5y ago
  Why not? Kidnapping people to face punishment without fair trial seems wrong no matter who does it.
  • gknoy 5y ago
    While all (most? many?) extraordinary renditions are kidnappings, not all kidnappings are renditions. The difference is that when doing extraordinary renditions, we are delegating the incarcaration/torture/interrogation of the victim to _some other actor_ specifically so that we can technically not be performing horrible acts. That's what makes it a special kind of kidnapping. Kidnapping is only one of the ways we ingest people to treat in this manner, if I recall right. Presumably one could be arrested and then renditioned elsewhere -- the rendition is the part where we send someone elsewhere to be harmed in ways that our laws don't permit us to do ourselves.
    • bawolff 5y ago
      "Extraordinary" is the part of the phrase that means kidnapping.