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A comment on How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015).

Re:How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015) by tomcooks on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:11AM (#21933933)
> The CIA’s faulty cell phone tradecraft used in the 2005 extraordinary rendition of Hassan Mustafa Osama in Italy

With "extraordinary" I hope the author means illegal (the 23 CIA operatives cowardly fled Italy to avoid being incarcerated)

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Re:How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015) by jt0 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:26AM (#21933989)
Yes, this is what is meant. Specifically: "Extraordinary rendition, also called irregular rendition or forced rendition, is the government-sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another with the purpose of circumventing the former country's laws on interrogation, detention and torture. Such renditions have been carried out (for example) by the United States government."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

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Re:How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015) by FDSGSG on Thursday January 02, 2020 @07:51AM (#21934936)
It would be much more honest to just use "unlawful rendition" as opposed to the terminology coined by the US government in order to make their illegal actions seem more palatable.
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Re:How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015) by buckminster on Thursday January 02, 2020 @10:46AM (#21936311)
"Kidnap" is even simpler.
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Re:How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015) by StavrosK on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:26AM (#21935136)
Kind of like saying "extraordinary procurement" instead of "theft".
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Re:How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015) by matheusmoreira on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:36PM (#21940695)
They call that civil forfeiture.
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Re:How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015) by closeparen on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:30PM (#21942514)
The British Empire prefers the more neutral "acquisition."
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Re:How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015) by Chirael on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:29AM (#21935561)
It was the least untruthful thing he could say.
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Re:How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015) by StavrosK on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:33AM (#21935586)
Plus it sounds like someone played Hamlet extremely well.

"You should have seen that rendition... It was... extraordinary."

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Re:How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015) by IntricateJake on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:17AM (#21933954)
> CIA > illegal

So just another day of work then?

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