(ABOVE) On MSNBC, Scott Horton discussed the whisper campaign to mischaracterize President Obama’s decision to stand down the Bush 43 extraordinary renditions program, while leaving open the possibility of renditions as practiced in the Bush 41 and Clinton presidencies.

The righties love to confuse the issues and are using the Obama Administrations use of a revised rendition program to claim Obama is back tracking on campaign promises. This could not be farther from the truth.

Check out a great peice on appropriate use of rendition by Richard Clarke in the Boston Globe:

The confusion over renditions

By Richard Clarke

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S order to close the Guantanamo prison provoked comments from the right about the risks of bringing terrorist prisoners to the United States. His order banning torture, but not outlawing “extraordinary renditions,” caused some on the left to complain. Both groups of critics, though, either overlook relevant parts of recent history or simply get that history wrong.

Before George W. Bush, there was no real question about what the United States should do with people who broke American anti-terror laws. It did not matter whether they were arrested in the United States or overseas. In the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, for example, one suspect, Muhammad Salameh, was caught in New Jersey. Another, Ramzi Yousef, was caught in Pakistan. Upon arrest, both were given their Miranda rights, arraigned before a US magistrate, given a free lawyer appointed by the court, tried and convicted before a jury, and sentenced to the “Supermax” prison in Florence, Colo. (READ MORE CLICK HERE)

Richard Clarke, a counterterrorism adviser to former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, is author of “Against All Enemies” and “Your Government Failed You.”