Leon Panetta's Confirmation Hearings

Panetta testified at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. Brendan Smialowski / Bloomberg News

Panetta: Obama Won't OK 'Extraordinary Rendition'
-- Yahoo News/AP

WASHINGTON – CIA Director nominee Leon Panetta assured senators Thursday that the Obama administration will not send prisoners to countries for torture or other treatment that violates U.S. values as he contended had occurred during the Bush presidency.

Panetta, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, later acknowledged that he does not know specifically what happened in the secret program allowing so-called "extraordinary rendition." CIA Director Michael Hayden has said that the Bush administration moved secret prisoners between countries for interrogation and incarceration, separate from the judicial system, fewer than 100 times.

Panetta said that President Barack Obama forbids what Panetta called "that kind of extraordinary rendition — when we send someone for the purpose of torture or actions by another country that violate our human values."

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My Comment: Our foreign security apparatus is now in the hands of this man. How come I do not feel safe.