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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

They Call This Justice. Supreme Court Gives CIA Torturers, Boeing a Free Pass - BlackListedNews.com

They Call This Justice. Supreme Court Gives CIA Torturers, Boeing a Free Pass - BlackListedNews.com: "On May 16, in another shameless capitulation to the Executive Branch, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lawsuit brought by victims of CIA torture, handing Jeppesen DataPlan, a subsidiary of defense giant Boeing, a free pass for services 'rendered' as the Agency's booking agent.

In 2007, the American Civil Liberties filed a landmark lawsuit, Mohamed et. al. vs. Jeppesen DataPlan, Inc., on behalf of five victims of the Bush administration's so-called 'extraordinary rendition' kidnap and torture program.

The five men, Binyam Mohamed, Ahmed Agiza, Abou Elkassim Britel, Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah and Bisher al-Rawi, claimed with copious evidence to back their assertions, that their 'rendition' and torture was facilitated by the Boeing subsidiary"

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