If at first you don’t succeed…
Posted on May 30, 2007
It didn’t work when the ACLU tried to sue George Tenant and the CIA over renditions, so they’re going after Boeing.
“The American Civil Liberties Union is suing a unit of Boeing Co., charging that it assisted the Central Intelligence Agency in secretly abducting suspect foreigners to overseas prisons where they were held and interrogated.
The ACLU said it would file a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a Boeing unit that provides flight and logistics support to plane operators, later on Wednesday.
The suit, to be filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is on behalf of three people the ACLU said had been abducted by the CIA.
“American corporations should not be profiting from a CIA rendition program that is unlawful and contrary to core American values,” Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, said in a statement. “Corporations that choose to participate in such activity can and should be held legally accountable.”
Notice the false assertion of an “unlawful” program (it isn’t). The fact this suit will get tossed along the same lines as the first one.
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Ummm, it’s Tenet.
Yeah the case was dismissed because it might reveal state secrets — the state secret that the US is illegally rendering and torturing.
Guess who lost a customer? Boeing. I am flying only Airbus as much as I can. Screw Boeing. Screw enemies of the US and the Constitution.
I’ve posted my analysis of the ACLU’s suit.