Monday, October 22, 2007

Rendition or addiction?

Australian investigator "Nick Possum" picks up on the theory that the rendition flights served as cover for smuggling:
I read Amnesty International’s 2006 report on the CIA’s ‘rendition’ flights – Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and disappearance – and my suspicion deepened. Officially available flight details for known aircraft of the CIA’s clandestine fleet combined with observations by Amnesty’s global network of plane spotters reveal that these aircraft fly too often, and touch down far more often, than can be explained by the rendition of the hapless suspects they were carrying at the time. They often stopped at US air bases where the local authorities have no control over what gets loaded or unloaded.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe someone should ask Gary Webb what he thinks about all of this. Oh, wait, he was suicided, right?

Better be careful, Mr. Cannon, I wouldn't want to have to find a new blog because you got too close to something you're not supposed to.

Joseph Cannon said...

Thanks for the good wishes. However, while the Webb suicide did seem suspicious at first, Bob Parry -- who was close to Webb -- insists that it really was a suicide. The family apparently also believes this.

Anonymous said...

I don't get it are we still wondering if the CIA is running drugs? Jeepers creepers that's ancinet hisrory. Let's move forward ad figure out how to fire them and all their front companies..that's the task.