ACLU: Boeing Offshoot Helped CIA

AP via SFGate ^ | 5/30/7 | PAT MILTON

[SmithL]

The American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday it is suing Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing Co., claiming it secretly flew three of the CIA's terrorism suspects overseas, where they were tortured.

The cases involve allegations of mistreatment of Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian citizen, in July 2002 and January 2004; Elkassim Britel, an Italian citizen, in May 2002; and Ahmed Agiza, an Egyptian citizen, in December 2001.

Mohamed is being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Britel in Morocco; and Agiza in Egypt, the ACLU said in a news release.

Mike Pound, a spokesman for Englewood, Colo.-based Jeppesen, said company officials had not seen the lawsuit and had no immediate comment. He said Jeppesen, a subsidiary of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, provides support services, rather than the flights themselves.

"We don't know the purpose of the trip for which we do a flight plan," Pound said. "We don't need to know specific details. It's the customer's business, and we do the business that we are contracted for. It's not our practice to ever inquire about the purpose of a trip."

ACLU attorney Ben Wizner said Jeppesen could not have been ignorant of the purpose of CIA flights.

[Badeye]

I have no use for either the CIA or the ACLU.

[SoldierDad]

How’s about we round up all the members of the ACLU and ship them overseas to be “interrogated” by the CIA?? Dispicable hateful people, these ACLU dunder heads.

[CaptRon]

"Either they knew or reasonably should have known that they were facilitating a torture program," he said.

Now there's a non-starter. I hope they remember to duck when this case is thrown out.

[onedoug]

‘Wish I worked for Jeppesen.

[tcrlaf]

The subbject of this lawsuit is based on PURE BS.

The object is to create NEGATIVE PUBLICITY for Jepps, and get them to drop the contract they have for updated charts, that was REQUIRED BY LEGISLATION after Ron Brown’s Crash....

[Mr. Jazzy]

Hehehe

I will be expecting a card from YOU for June 17th!

[longtermmemmory]

according some tort lawyers YES the rental company would be responsible. The lawyer types want to extent proximate cause to its most absurd connection.

[irishtenor]

Wow, you must REALLY be old :>)

My mom is almost 75.

[PghBaldy]

First things first: what standing do they have? None. Let the terrorists themselves sue.

[VeniVidiVici]

Someone tell me that we, the American taxpayers, are not footing the bill for this one.

The sooner the ACLU can be overthrown the better.

[devolve]

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The ACLU has “no standing” in even filing this alleged incident

Any judge that allows the lawsuit to go forward should be subject to the “Pelican Brief” scenario

That include Sandra Day O’Con who is now lobbying Congress for huge cash grants to produce ads and leftist agenda propaganda that will oppose any oversight of the judiciary

[potlatch]

Bump!

[California Desert Rat]

At a time when our very existence as a nation is in jeopardy why on earth has the Justice Department failed to shut down the ACLU and toss the asshats who run it (and fund it) into prison?

This strikes me as neither a conservative nor a liberal issue. It’s a matter of common sense — treasonous speech and behavior are NOT protected under the First Amendment.