{"id":15961,"date":"2011-09-02T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15961"},"modified":"2011-09-02T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:47:53","slug":"ian-cobain-and-ben-quinn-how-us-firms-profited-from-torture-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15961","title":{"rendered":"Ian Cobain and Ben Quinn: How US firms profited from torture flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/iancobain\" rel=\"author\"> Ian Cobain<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/benquinn\" rel=\"author\"> Ben Quinn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">guardian.co.uk<\/a>, 31 August 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The scale of the <a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on CIA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/cia\">CIA<\/a>&#8216;s rendition programme has been laid bare in court documents that illustrate in minute detail how the US contracted out the secret transportation of suspects to a network of private American companies.<\/p>\n<p>The manner in which American firms flew terrorism suspects to locations around the world, where they were often tortured, has emerged after one of the companies sued another in a dispute over fees. As the 10th anniversary of 9\/11 approaches, the mass of invoices, receipts, contracts and email correspondence \u2013 submitted as evidence to a court in upstate New York \u2013 provides a unique glimpse into a world in which the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; became just another charter opportunity for American businesses.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/aug\/31\/us-firms-torture-flights-rendition\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;How US firms profited from torture flights&#8221; by Ian Cobain and Ben Quinn<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article29001.htm\"><strong>&#8220;Dick Cheney, The Ultimate American Terrorist&#8221; by William Rivers Pitt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies Ian Cobain and Ben Quinn, guardian.co.uk, 31 August 2011 The scale of the CIA&#8216;s rendition programme has been laid bare in court documents that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-49r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15964,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961\/revisions\/15964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}