Pentagon leak leads to limits on who gets access to military’s top secrets

Re:Pentagon leak leads to limits on who gets access to milit... by iso1631 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:30PM (#35559949)

That particular rendition relied on the UK refueling the planes. Seems a very tenuous link to me - the idea that the US would illegally kidnap someone from the streets in Sweden but not do the same thing in the UK

Hell nowadays the UK would not just allow, but probably pay the US to take asylum seekers somewhere else

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/iraq-war-tor...

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Re:Pentagon leak leads to limits on who gets access to milit... by monocasa on Thursday April 13, 2023 @03:54PM (#35561247)

> That particular rendition relied on the UK refueling the planes.

That particular rendition didn't rely on UK refueling the planes; the CIA's planes don't need to be refueled from somewhere as close as Sweden. And it was a minor scandal when it came out that the UK even allowed rendition flight refueling on one of it's territories in the Indian ocean. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/22/ciarendition.f...

> Seems a very tenuous link to me - the idea that the US would illegally kidnap someone from the streets in Sweden but not do the same thing in the UK

Then you should be able to produce an example of this happening. The big difference is that for western Europe, the US gov generally requires that the host country cooperates with renditions. Sweden cooperates with renditions, the UK requires the normal extradition process.

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