[Mb-civic] Pricey Rendition

[William Swiggard]

Pricey Rendition
By Jim Hoagland

Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page B07

America's spy agencies need more money, a sleeker bureaucratic 
structure, fluent Arabic speakers and a host of other reforms and 
gimmicks to protect the United States and its allies from harm. Add one 
more urgent need: a sense of proportion.

In substance and style, the exposure of the "extraordinary rendition" -- 
Bush-era legalese for kidnapping -- of a radical Egyptian cleric off a 
Milan street in 2003 reveals a crushing inability by higher-ups here to 
ask and answer sensibly this question: Is this covert act really worth 
the likely consequences?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070101817.html?nav=hcmodule
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