Wha? It's been official presidential policy since the first Bush administration and re-asserted under Clinton. http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm http:/

Wha? It's been official presidential policy since the first Bush administration and re-asserted under Clinton. http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm is an example of a presidential directive regarding extraordinary rendition to the US. (Never mind the extraordinary rendition to countries such as Libya, Egypt, Syria, etc., used to circumvent legal issues regarding torture.) There's plenty of historical precedent as well. Israel has many well-known cases of tracking Nazis down on foreign soil and rendering them for trial with US support and assistance. Eichmann, Entebbe, Munich/Operation Wrath of God, etc. Once you get into 'universal jurisdiction', you'll discover violations of international law committed without the assistance of the country harboring enemies of our United States. Sometimes the US has worked around official channels, such as in the case of the Achille Lauro.