Map of CIA Rendition Flights
President Obama's Department of Justice will uphold the states secret defense used by Bush to prevent a lawsuit by five individuals who claim to have been tortured abroad under the controversial “extraordinary rendition” program.
The states secret privilege, developed by the Supreme Court in 1953, entitles the US government to block all evidence from ever reaching a court. No one has the jurisdiction to look at the evidence. The federal lawsuit against the Bush Administration was launched by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2007.
The suit charges that the Boeing subsidiary, Jeppesen DataPlan Inc., provided the logistic support and flight planning to aircraft and crew used by the CIA to forcibly remove these individuals. According to the ACLU, one of the senior staff members of the Boeing subsidiary referred to the program as its “torture flight.”
