First Class Section, Coach is Worse!
San Francisco Bay Guardian | News — Can someone read this and tell me exactly where you can draw the conclusion that the CIA operates “torture Taxis?” I can see where you can jump to this conclusion if you believe El-Masri. But how credible is he? He wanted to sue for $75,000 for all this torure he supposedly endured. $75,000?? He must be a terrorist if he’s that much of a low-baller.
I smell fish.
At this point, there’s little doubt the plane served as Langley’s torture taxi. The Washington Post, 60 Minutes, and numerous German media outlets have all tied Boeing number N313P to the agency, and all traces of its putative owner, Premier, have vanished. The company’s boss appears to be a completely fictional character.
It was the Boeing’s alleged role in the kidnapping of a German citizen, a 42-year-old man of Lebanese descent named Khaled El-Masri, that put Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the defensive during her recent visit to Germany.
“We know the CIA is using a fleet of some 26 planes,” said Steven Watt, a human rights expert with the American Civil Liberties Union who is working on El-Masri’s behalf. The agency’s network of front companies, Watt argued, is “complicit in unlawful acts of torture and detainment.”
El-Masri’s tale, laid out in a lawsuit filed in federal court Dec. 6 by the ACLU, reads like a post-9/11 spy novel. A really fucking scary spy novel.
I love the use of the comment: “there is little doubt” when absolutely NO evidence has been presented.
In many European countries this is actually a large indemnization as pitiful as it may seem when held to American standards.