7 December 2005 - rendering and rendition

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2005 : 7 December 2005

Extraordinary Rendition

Rendering used to be the way to extract oil from whales; today it is how we use computers to draw pictures. Rendition used to mean giving up; today it is a form of taking, putting the heat on suspects to help us draw a picture. Isn’t that extraordinary?

clue:

“Extraordinary rendition” is the CIA term for sending captured suspects to other countries without worrying about any of that “due process” stuff, whatever that is. I think they like to talk about rendition when torture allegations come up because rendition is more nearly defensible than other CIA practices.

take oh take this clue away