if you want them tortured...

President Bush was asked why people were transferred out of U.S. custody to countries where torture is common... [He] was then asked specifically about returns to Uzbekistan, a country with a notorious record on torture: “As commander in chief, what is it that Uzbekistan can do in interrogating an individual that the United States can’t?” His response was: “We seek assurances that nobody will be tortured.”
Others spelled things out more clearly. One U.S. diplomat was quoted as saying: “It allows us to get information from terrorists in a way we can’t do on U.S. soil.”
A former CIA agent, Robert Baer, explained, “The ultimate destinations of these flights are places that, you know, are involved in torture.” In Baer’s words, “If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear - never to see them again - you send them to Egypt.”