Secrets of CIA 'ghost flights' to be revealed

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Source: The Guardian

Guantánamo detainee's lawyers hail UK air firm's U-turn that allows rendition case to go to court

Confidential documents showing the flight plans of a CIA "ghost plane" allegedly used to transfer a British resident to secret interrogation sites around the world are to be made public. The move comes after a Sussex-based company accused of involvement in extraordinary rendition dropped its opposition to a case against it being heard in court.

Lawyers bringing the case against Jeppesen UK on behalf of the former Guantánamo Bay detainee, Binyam Mohamed, claimed last night the climbdown had wide-ranging legal implications that could help expose which countries and governments knew the CIA was using their air bases to spirit terrorist suspects around the world.

Jeppesen UK, a division of the Jeppesen Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boeing, is alleged to have provided a range of services that allowed planes owned by shell companies operating on behalf of the CIA to fly suspected terrorists to "black sites" .

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Reprieve's renditions investigator, Clara Gutteridge, said the CIA could not have acted alone and the case would raise questions over which governments were complicit in extraordinary rendition.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/26/cia-rendition-guantanamo

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[UpInArms]

2. quit with the secrets and the lies

become honest -

I guess I should just look at the US gov as an alcoholic that needs to go through a 30-step program of detoxification of the BFEE

[readmoreoften]

3. Secrets or disinformation. One or the other. Or, most likely, both.

Since disinformation is allow, the whole damn pool of info is tainted. Believing the worst is the only possible compensation. :shrug:

[cosmicone]

4. This is huge

but I bet the CIA and MI6 will fight it tooth and nail when it comes to discovery.

I suspect this case will settle out of court and none of this will ever come out.

[bluesmail]

5. Psychiatrists Mitchell and Jessen, who witnessed the torture

last I heard had packed up, locked their office, and disappeared from Spokane, Wa.

[dipsydoodle]

6. K & R

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[hootinholler]

7. Considering they tried 25 alledged CIA operatives in absentia

I doubt one of them is Italy.

-Hoot