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The term '''extraordinary rendition''' is used to refer to a variety of practices involving the transfer of individuals from one country into another, without any form of judicial or administrative process such as extradition. According to the [[American Civil Liberties Union]], the current policy in the U.S. traces its roots to the administration of former [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]]. <ref>[http://www.aclu.org/safefree/extraordinaryrendition/22203res20051206.html ACLU Fact Sheet: Extraordinary Rendition] (12/6/2005). </ref>  Beginning in the early 1990s the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], together with other U.S. government agencies, has utilized an intelligence-gathering program involving the transfer of detainees into the custody of other states, taking custody of individuals from foreign authorities and abducting suspects on foreign soil, in contravention to the 1992 UN Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The process began with Clinton's approval of and Presidential Decision Directive 39 (PDD 39) <ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm Clinton Presidential Decision Directive - 39] Counterterrorism Policy, 21 June 1995.</ref> on 21 June 1995.  Michael Scheuer, the CIA officer who launched the program in 1995 under the Clinton administration, responded to European critics of the program,

The term '''extraordinary rendition''' is used to refer to a variety of practices involving the transfer of individuals from one country into another, without any form of judicial or administrative process such as extradition. According to the [[American Civil Liberties Union]], the current policy in the U.S. traces its roots to the administration of former [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]]. <ref>[http://www.aclu.org/safefree/extraordinaryrendition/22203res20051206.html ACLU Fact Sheet: Extraordinary Rendition] (12/6/2005). </ref>  Beginning in the early 1990s the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], together with other U.S. government agencies, has utilized an intelligence-gathering program involving the transfer of detainees into the custody of other states, taking custody of individuals from foreign authorities and abducting suspects on foreign soil, in contravention to the 1992 UN Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The process began with Clinton's approval of and Presidential Decision Directive 39 (PDD 39) <ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm Clinton Presidential Decision Directive - 39] Counterterrorism Policy, 21 June 1995.</ref> on 21 June 1995.  Michael Scheuer, the CIA officer who launched the program in 1995 under the Clinton administration, responded to European critics of the program,

:"The European Unions’s policy of easily attainable [[political asylum]] and its prohibition against deporting wanted or convicted [[terrorist]]s to countries with the [[death penalty]] have made Europe a major, consistent, and invulnerable source of terrorist threat to the United States”.  

:"The [[European Union]]'s policy of easily attainable [[political asylum]] and its prohibition against deporting wanted or convicted [[terrorist]]s to countries with the [[death penalty]] have made Europe a major, consistent, and invulnerable source of terrorist threat to the United States”.  

Scheuer has criticized ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter Dana Priest for revealing declassified ”information that damaged U.S. national security and, as result, won a journalism prize for abetting America’s enemies.” <ref>Accuracy in Media Special report, [http://www.aim.org/special_report/4557_0_8_0_C/ Post Reporter Dana Priest's Troubling Connections], Jennifer Verner, May 9, 2006. </ref>  

Scheuer has criticized ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter Dana Priest for revealing declassified ”information that damaged U.S. national security and, as result, won a journalism prize for abetting America’s enemies.” <ref>Accuracy in Media Special report, [http://www.aim.org/special_report/4557_0_8_0_C/ Post Reporter Dana Priest's Troubling Connections], Jennifer Verner, May 9, 2006. </ref>