Byline: James Oliphant
Oct. 10--WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to allow a lawsuit to go forward that questions the government's use of rendition, the controversial practice of capturing suspected terrorists and sending them to other countries for a more intense form of interrogation than permitted under U.S. law.
In doing so, the court implicitly endorsed the administration's use of a sweeping legal defense that prevents claims of abuse and torture at the hands of U.S. interrogators from ever being heard in court.
The high court said it will not take up the case of a German citizen who alleges he was held in a so-called black site in ...