Below the Radar: Secret flights to Torture & 'Disappearance'-Amnesty Intl.

[kpete]

Below the Radar: Secret flights to Torture and 'Disappearance',
reveals how the CIA exploited aviation practices to hide behind the identity of private plane operators and circumvent authorities. Countries that allow CIA planes to cross their airspace and use their airports often cite the Convention on International Civil Aviation, also known as the Chicago Convention. These states claim that they do not have the authority to question the reasons for the flight because there is a clause in the Convention that allows private, non-commercial flights to fly over a country, or make technical stops there, without prior authorization or notification.

According to the Chicago Convention, states do not have the authority to question the reasons for the private, non-commercial flights flying over a country, or making technical stops there.

Amnesty claims that the United States may have transferred hundreds of individuals for the purposes of interrogation by nations with "dubious human rights records." They further claim that "rendition is part of an elaborate clandestine detention regime that includes the use of 'black sites' and 'disappearances,' as well as torture and inhuman treatment."

They report fingers companies suspected of or able to have taken part in the program.

The full report (which is a very large file) has been made available here.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Amnesty_Internation_Report_Under_Radar_0404.html
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Amnesty_report_claims_CIA_used_private_0404.html

[acmavm]

1. Now isn't this something to be proud of. We are now a nation

of thugs who have no problem torturing people because we are too damn stupid to realize that a person will say anything that their torturer wants to hear, just to make them stop. Hell, maybe we can bring back the rack. Or the Iron Maiden. Because even though this may be the 21st century we are obviously reliving Dark Ages/Inquisition.

Evolution my ass. Some of us are devolving.

[madokie]

2. some are but not us, as soon as they put the leg irons on these sorry

excuses for a maladministration they will sing like a canary

[acmavm]

4. In using the word 'we' I don't me us here. But some dems

are every bit as guilty as the bush** admin. Particularly the dem quislings that will not stand up for human rights in the House and Senate. Gutless wonders.

[Peace Patriot]

3. 'black sites,' 'disappearances," torture, inhuman treatment--does anyone

doubt that this junta has used these methods to get rid of potential whistleblowers, witnesses, and dissenters--people who know something about Bush junta crimes, or are in a position to obstruct their illegal/unethical activities? Why else keep the identity of prisoners a secret from any objective party, such as a court or a lawyer or a prisoner's advocate?

Does anyone trust this junta's judgement about what is a national security threat and what is not?

Since it is well known in the intelligence community that torture doesn't work, what is the purpose of these illegal methods?