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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/17/cia-rendition-flights-north-carolina-citizens-commissionA Gulfstream jet from a quiet airport south-east of Raleigh flew captives to be tortured around the world. The government failed to act but local people have refused to let the issue die
Larry Siems in Raleigh, North Carolina
Wed 17 Jan 2018 06.00 EST
A year after he was released from captivity in Guantánamo, Binyam Mohamed received a letter from Christina Cowger, an agricultural researcher from North Carolina. Enclosed was a petition of apology signed by nearly 800 visitors to the North Carolina State Fair.
It was a small gesture, Cowger acknowledged, but her 2010 letter came with a commitment. North Carolina Stop Torture Now, an organization she co-founded, had been conducting protests, petition drives and legislative campaigns seeking an official investigation into an obscure firm operating flights out of her local airport.
The firm, Aero Contractors, was the CIA front company that operated the Gulfstream business jet that delivered Mohamed to a secret prison in Morocco to be tortured.
Though few government officials supported such an investigation, she wrote, the group pledged to work toward true transparency and accountability in the United States for the crimes against you and other survivors.
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CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens (Original Post)
G_j
Jan 2018
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(82,849 posts)1. This is just shameful
And the fact that this crime against humanity passed unprosecuted during the eight years of the Obama administration is very bad, as well. By failing to address the crimes of the past, we got enough bad things continuing, including a Trump presidency. The next Democratic administration MUST look into and prosecute these crimes.
G_j
(40,366 posts)2. I totally agree
The commission of war crimes, then holding nobody accountable helped pave the way to the creeping facism we see today.
Those shameful times are barely even discussed anymore. Its as if they never even happened. Shameful indeed.
And then there is this one
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39075-three-things-you-should-know-about-gen-john-kelly