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Victims of extraordinary rendition??the practice of kidnapping and transporting people to countries where they were tortured in secret without even being charged with a crime—have initiated lawsuits challenging well-documented and horrific abuses. But Obama’s Justice Department is arguing the same "state secrets" privilege the Bush Administration employed to have entire cases thrown out. As a result, not a single innocent victim of the torture program has had his day in court. Much of the conduct at issue—like the participation of the Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen DataPlan...
...lest they come out and speak of their torture ordeals, claims an attorney at the ACLU. Guantánamo is only one small part of a series of serious human rights violations around the world. The CIA has been actively involved in an “extraordinary rendition?? program under which possible suspects are arrested and flown to territories outside U.S. jurisdiction and interrogated by U.S. and foreign officials. The ACLU claims that one German citizen, El-Masri, was kidnapped by the CIA, taken to a “black site” in Afghanistan, tortured...
...Rendition?? aspires to be a polarizing film that audiences will discuss long after they leave the theater. Unfortunately, in trying to deliver both an intense thriller and a meaningful political drama, Oscar-winning director Gavin Hood fails to create either, and instead supplies a film far from thoughtful or controversial...
...Rendition?? develops three interconnected storylines. Isabella (Reese Witherspoon) desperately searches for her husband Anwar (Omar Metwally), a Egyptian-born chemical engineer who has been kidnapped by the CIA under questionable pretenses; inexperienced CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggles to torture a man he believes is innocent; and, in a seemingly unrelated thread, the daughter of an Egyptian, CIA-sanctioned torturer rebels against her traditionalist father by falling in love with a radical student whose personal life remains a mystery...
Perhaps if Hood had chosen to extend that intrigue to the rest of the film, “Rendition?? would not play like such a missed opportunity...