Change Watch: U.S. Says Rendition to Continue, but With More Oversight -- Times Headline

As I wrote during the late campaign, in foreign and military affairs, the Democrats' promise is not really to do things differently, just to do them better.

The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terrorism suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but pledges to closely monitor their treatment to ensure that they are not tortured, administration officials said Monday.

Human rights advocates condemned the decision, saying that continuing the practice, known as rendition, would still allow the transfer of prisoners to countries with a history of torture. They said that promises from other countries of humane treatment, called “diplomatic assurances,” were no protection against abuse.

The rest of the story: U.S. Says Rendition to Continue, but With More Oversight by David Johnston (New York Times 2009-08-24)