This is an excerpt from OUTLAWED, a documentary produced through the efforts of WINTESS and fourteen human rights groups. Warning: if you care about the United States or, more importantly, humanity as a whole, this will disturb and probably enrage you.

From Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing:

Speaking on my own behalf here: What happens with Guantánamo and the legal process surrounding the men still held there should matter to each and every person who reads this blog post. The safety of our nation does not require us to abandon universally-recognized principles of human rights. Torture and disappearances do not make America more secure.

Paraphrasing what one person from WITNESS told us in email -- if more Americans realized they live in a nation where, on a street corner in the town where you live, any one of us could be picked up, pushed into an unmarked van, then moved around detention centers all over the world, tortured, without a charge or a word to your family, surely there would be more outcry.

Guantanamo Bay is a travesty, but imagine what we are completely unaware of as far as extraordinary rendition—or "torture by proxy"—is concerned.

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks the United States, in particular the CIA, has rendered hundreds of people suspected by the government of being terrorists — or of aiding and abetting terrorist organizations — to third-party states such as Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Morocco, and Uzbekistan. Such "ghost detainees" are kept outside of judicial oversight, often without ever entering US territory, and may or may not ultimately be devolved to the custody of the United States.

According to a December 4, 2005 article in the Washington Post by Dana Priest:
"Members of the Rendition Group follow a simple but standard procedure: Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs. They outfit detainees in a diaper and jumpsuit for what can be a day-long trip. Their destinations: either a detention facility operated by cooperative countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, or one of the CIA's own covert prisons – referred to in classified documents as "black sites," which at various times have been operated in eight countries, including several in Eastern Europe."

OUTLAWED is just 27 minutes, and can be viewed entirely for free right here.