Posted on 12/02/2005 9:11:52 AM PST by SueRae
PARIS — Two flights chartered by the CIA made stopovers in France in 2002 and 2005, the French newspaper Le Figaro said Friday, adding to likely questions facing U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when she visits Europe next week.
French officials said they had no knowledge of the clandestine flights via France, which were first mentioned Thursday in The New York Times and Britain's Guardian newspaper.
Le Figaro said the first flight identified took place on March 31, 2002. The Learjet private plane stopped in the northwestern town of Brest on its way from Iceland to Turkey, with a planned stop in Rome, the newspaper said.
Authorities at the airport told the Figaro that the crew had indicated it was alone on board the aircraft, it added.
The second flight stopped over near Paris on July 20, 2005, arriving from Norway, Le Figaro said, quoting as its source the Norwegian newspaper Ny Tid. This airplane, a Gulfstream III jet, had landed six times at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it added.
Several European governments have launched investigations into whether covert CIA flights were used in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, to transfer Islamist suspects to third countries where they could be interrogated beyond the reach of international law.
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I want them caught and hung. I, too, am disgusted with CIA leaks and the MSM for encouraging treason.
I'm starting to think Frank Church quit too soon.
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WTF is going on over there... was Porter Goss forced to barricade himself in his office?!!
From Iceland and From Norway? Ummm the terrorist connection just doesn't seem to hold any water here.
Clandestine, yes, but I am sure the CIA has lots of clandestine flights that aren't reported and have nothing to do with transporting mysterious figures.
WTH! I thought Goss was gonna fix this.
Man, the CIA is more full of Rats than I thought possible.
Any analyst, case worker, or support perosonnel hired quickly in the aftermath of 9/11 should be fired. Not a single one of them understands the word OPSEC or classified. They all think they are so cool because they work for the Agency and brag about it.
Goss better get his cleanup crew going, and soon. This is totally out of hand.
These CIA worms are Clinton people. Probably from Yale.
Fire every CIA employee that came to work from 1992-2000.
That's how you fix the problem.
Probably is...but that is info that definitely doesn't want to be leaked by some.
W waited too long. He should have started cleaning house on 9-12-2001.
Big time ditto. SHUT THESE ROUGUES DOWN! NOW!
"We spend so much time hating the French. How ironic if they had been secretly helping us.
Boy, do the French-haters look silly if this is true."
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I don't think you understand what the French are saying. They claim they had no idea what the CIA was doing, and if they were transfering terrorist without their knowledge, they will press for war crimes charges.
I would like to see Bush work to quell the insurrection in the CIA. After seeing how long it took him to respond to critics of the Iraq war, I won't hold my breath.
Maybe we should begin to defund the CIA and increase the budget for the uniformed intelligence services...eventually let the CIA wither on the vine and die. Since our Army/Navy/AF intelligence folks were responsible for Able Danger, maybe they could produce better intelligence products.
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