Editing Extraordinary rendition (section)

== "Erroneous rendition" ==
An article published on 5 December 2005, ''The Washington Post'' reported that the [[CIA]]'s [[Inspector General]] was investigating what it calls '''erroneous renditions'''.<ref name="WaPo051205">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/03/AR2005120301476_pf.html Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake: German Citizen Released After Months in 'Rendition'], [[Dana Priest]], ''The Washington Post'', 4 December 2005</ref> The term appears to refer to cases in which innocent people were subjected to extraordinary rendition.

[[Khalid El-Masri]] is the most well-known person who is believed to have been subjected to the process of "extraordinary rendition", as a result of mistaken identity. [[Laid Saidi]], an Algerian detained and tortured along with El-Masri, was apprehended apparently because of a taped telephone conversation in which the word ''tirat'', meaning "tires" in Arabic, was mistaken for the word ''tairat'', meaning "airplanes".<ref name="NyTimes060707" />

The Post's anonymous sources say that the Inspector General is looking into a number of similar cases—possibly as many as thirty innocent men who were captured and transported through what has been called "erroneous renditions".

A 27 December 2005 story quotes anonymous CIA insiders claiming there have been 10 or fewer such erroneous renditions.<ref name="ApNews">[https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-12-27-cia-renditions_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA CIA watchdog probes 'renditions' of suspects], [[Associated Press]], 27 December 2005</ref>
It names the CIA's [[inspector general]], [[John Helgerson]], as the official responsible for the inquiry.

The AP story quotes [[Tom Malinowski]], Washington office director of Human Rights Watch who said:

<blockquote>I am glad the CIA is investigating the cases that they are aware of, but by definition you are not going to be aware of all such cases, when you have a process designed to avoid judicial safeguards.<ref name="ApNews" /></blockquote>