A trial involving this affair in Germany, outside of the control of the White House, might become highly damaging to the United States. The CIA, still denies being involved

"Extraordinary Rendition", has been a verbal device, whereby the USA can deny torturing anybody, but can transport that person to a country to be tortured and then shipped to Guantanamo Bay and held indefinitely.

This practice of using torture as a tool in intelligence work history has shown, always fails miserably. Aside from the moral disgrace suffered by a country that stoops so low, it just simply doesn't work.

However, in spite of that, former Secretary of Defense Rumsfield argued strongly to Bush that torture was a necessary tool in the war against terrorism. So, the policy of "Extraordinary Rendition" emerged as a kind of compromise.

The fact that the White House believes that by duplicitously creating an obscure label we hide torture from the rest of the world, glaringly illustrates the enormity of the problem facing the American people today.