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Re:Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, P... by bawolff on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:56AM (#27830722)
Why not?

Kidnapping people to face punishment without fair trial seems wrong no matter who does it.

Re:Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, P... by gknoy on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:44PM (#27835884)
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.

Re:Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, P... by bawolff on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:05PM (#27836193)
"Extraordinary" is the part of the phrase that means kidnapping.