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Comment by Larry Ross,  June 23, 2007

 

Nat Hentoff shows how American taxpayers without their knowledge, pay for their Government to kidnap anyone they suspect of being what they label as "a terrorist", and secretly transport them to imprisonment and torture in one of it's client states. The Government then invokes "national security reasons" to prevent the truth from becoming known. There are no charges and no trials. The head of the CIA, Michael Hayden, can then claim the 'rendition' programme "is lawful and in keeping with western traditions" etc. US liars whether politicians or CIA agents, are second to none when it comes to sanctimoniously stating lies as 'truth' with convincing sincerity. People are eternally gullible. They want to believe their leaders and state employees. And most people do believe them, particularly if the lies are endlessly repeated, as they are, by a corrupted media. As Hitler taught "the bigger the lie the more people will believe it"

So it is lie, piled on lie, with each lie always faithfully repeated by US media. Unfortunately too many Americans don't bother to check or question the media. They believe that if it's printed in their newspaper, repeatedly, it must be right. Thus they may believe they are living in a Democracy with a free press, whereas in fact they live in a de-facto fascist state, where the state develops and conducts policies that are enormously expensive, deceitful and dangerous. They are entirely contrary to the US Constitution and result in multiple grounds for impeachment of the Bush Administration.

Very gradually, much too gradually, the American public are becoming more aware of the crimes committed in their name, using their money.

People wishing to help correct this situation before it results in irretrievable catastrophe, can apply their abilities to an American DIY impeachment of the Bush regime.

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The CIA's No-Questions-Asked Travel Agent   

A private corporation joins Bush administration's conspiracy to obstruct justice

by Nat Hentoff,  June 19, 2007

 

CIA director Michael Hayden, defending the practice of sending terrorism suspects to countries that interrogate by torture via secret "renditions," told USA Today last month that this program is "lawful, in keeping with Western values.

"I've never managed a more sensitive, law-abiding workforce [than the CIA] in my life," added the former head of the National Security Agency, which has long engaged in lawless spying on American phone calls and e-mails.

In its story, USA Today failed to note that a 1998 U.S. law, the Foreign Affairs and Restructuring Act, explicitly states: "It shall be the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture."

The ACLU, in its lawsuit against Boeing's subsidiary, Jeppesen DataPlan (which, among other things, operates an elite travel agency), is representing three victims of the CIA's renditions—an Ethiopian, Italian, and Egyptian. In court papers, the ACLU reveals how this branch of the world's largest aerospace company collaborates with Hayden's "men in black" to ignore both our laws and international treaties:

"In providing its services to the CIA, Jeppesen knew or reasonably should have known that plaintiffs would be subjected to forced disappearances, detention, and torture in countries where such practices are routine. Indeed, according to published reports, Jeppesen had actual knowledge of its activities [violating the Alien Tort Statute of 1789]."

The ACLU then goes to the smoking gun in this case, as first reported by The New Yorker 's Jane Mayer in "The CIA's Travel Agent" (October 30, 2006):

"A former Jeppesen employee, who asked not to be identified, said recently that he had been startled to learn, during an internal corporate meeting, about the company's involvement with the rendition flights. At the meeting, he recalled, Bob Overby, the managing director of Jeppesen International Trip Planning, said, 'We do all of the extraordinary rendition flights—you know, the torture flights. Let's face it, some of these flights end up that way."

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