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*[[Richmor Aviation, Inc.]]
*Farah Stockman, [http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/12/09/jet_linked_to_torture_claims_is_sold/ "Jet linked to torture claims is sold. Mass. firm had role in flying terror suspects to Egypt,"] ''Boston Globe'', December 9, 2004.
*Dana Priest, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27826-2004Dec26.html "Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War,"] ''Washington Post'', December 27, 2004; also [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002132447_ciaplane28.html posted] by ''Seattle Times'', December 28, 2004.
*[http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Jan/20050109News034.asp "Mystery man takes to skies. Elusive owner’s jet linked to CIA, torture,"] ''Chicago Tribune'' (''Columbia Daily Tribune''), January 9, 2005.
*Xeni Jardin, [http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/11/torture_jet_is_this_.html "Torture Jet: is this the CIA's 'ghost' plane?"] ''Boing Boing'', January 11, 2005.
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To date, the only public inquiry into extraordinary rendition has been conducted by the [[Arar Commission]] in [[Canada]], into the abduction and torture of Syrian-Canadian citizen [[Maher Arar]].
==Air CIA==In a follow-up to Dana Priest's December 27, 2004, ''Washington Post'' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27826-2004Dec26.html article] on the subject, Michael Hirsh, Mark Hosenball and John Barry [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6999272/site/newsweek/ related] in ''Newsweek'' February 8, 2005, that the CIA "ran a secret charter service, shuttling detainees to interrogation facilities worldwide," with suspected terrorists and prospective informants being "snatched" and disappearing, blindfolded, transported, detained, and imprisoned. The ''Newsweek'' reporters cited the case of [[Khaled el-Masri]], "a German citizen of Lebanese descent, [who said] he was taken off a bus in Macedonia in south-central Europe while on holiday on Dec. 31, 2003, then whisked in handcuffs to a motel outside the capital city of Skopje" and subsequently flown to a prison facility in [[Afghanistan]] where he was "shackled, repeatedly punched and questioned" by the CIA. :"Together with previously disclosed flight plans of a smaller Gulfstream V jet, the Boeing 737's travels are further evidence that a '''global 'ghost' prison system''', where terror suspects are secretly interrogated, is being operated by the CIA. Several of the Gulfstream flights allegedly correlate with other 'renditions,' the controversial practice of secretly spiriting suspects Planes alleged to other countries without [[due process]]. 'The more evidence that comes out, the clearer it is that there's have been a stunning failure of accountability,' [saidused for extraordinary rendition] lawyer [[John Sifton]] of [[Human Rights Watch]]." :"CIA officials are increasingly fretful about being saddled with this secret prison network at a time of intense pressure from lawyers and human-rights activists. The CIA's anxiety only deepened last week when President Bush named [[John Negroponte]], his ambassador to [[Iraq]], as the country's first director of national intelligence." Masri was returned, "deposited on a deserted road leading into Macedonia, where he brokenly tried to describe his nightmarish odyssey to a border guard," who laughed at him. ''Newsweek'' "obtained previously unpublished flight plans indicating the agency has been operating a Boeing 737 as part of a top-secret global charter servicing clandestine interrogation facilities used in the war on terror. And the Boeing's flight information, detailed to the day, seems to confirm Masri's tale of abduction."==
==Bush administration statements on "rendition"==
*[http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/9/96/UK_Torture_Memos.pdf Two British Torture Memos (.pdf)] regarding information obtained via torture in Uzbekistan being used by the US and UK released in the blogosphere December 29, 2005.
==Related SourceWatch Resources==
*[[blowback]]
*[[cooked intelligence]]
*[[Post-war Iraq]]
*[[President's Military Order of November 13, 2001, Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism]]
*[[The CIA Secret Prisons Leak]]
*[[war on terrorism]] (many related SW links)
*Deborah Pearlstein, [http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8788 "Rewarding Bad Behavior. Months after Abu Ghraib, senior officers implicated are in line for promotions, and the House is pushing to legitimize torture,"] ''The American Prospect'', October 19, 2004.
*Katherine Hawkins, [http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8794 "Torturous Passage. The House decided not to condone torture -- but that hasn’t stopped it in the past,"] ''The American Prospect'', October 20, 2004.
===2005===
*Jane Mayer, [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content?050214fa_fact6 "Outsourcing Torture. The secret history of America's 'extraordinary rendition' program,"] ''The New Yorker'', February 7, 2005 (posted); February 14, 2005.
*[http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2005/02/more-on-outsourcing-torture.html "More on outsourcing torture,"] ''No Right Turn'', February 10, 2005.
