John King's statements on LA Times rendition story ignored key facts

SUMMARY: On CNN's State of the Union, John King cited a Los Angeles Times article that, according to King, stated that President Obama "has signed executive orders to continue the controversial CIA practice of rendition -- essentially scooping up suspected terrorists around the world, sometimes taking them to secret prisons." But King left out key facts from the Times article, including that the "secret prisons" to which he referred could be used "only to hold people on a short-term, transitory basis," and that in his executive order, Obama created a task force to ensure that renditions "do not result in the transfer of individuals to other nations to face torture."

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