Monday, December 27, 2004
I kept waiting for the punch-line of this front-page Washington Post article about a business jet apparently used by the CIA to shuttle War on Terror prisoners. Was the point that its activities are illegal, or rogue? Doesn't appear so. Can't we learn about the issue without the details of tail numbers and an investigation of the cover-identities - including names - of the agents involved? Obviously, this is more than an effort to bring the issue to the public's attention, this article represnets a decision by the Post to make the CIA's job more difficult. But shouldn't the Post be simply informing the debate, or informing the public to see if there is a debate in the first place - not taking up their own effort on one side or the other. Our government has a difficult enough time without...this...
Washington Post: Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War
The plane's owner of record, Premier Executive Transport Services Inc., lists directors and officers who appear to exist only on paper. And each one of those directors and officers has a recently issued Social Security number and an address consisting only of a post office box, according to an extensive search of state, federal and commercial records...
