{"id":2466,"date":"2008-02-14T13:49:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T13:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-judge-blocks-cia-flight-case\/2466\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T13:49:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T13:49:48","slug":"us-judge-blocks-cia-flight-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-judge-blocks-cia-flight-case\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge blocks CIA flight case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7244149.stm\">BBC<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>A US judge has dismissed a case alleging that a subsidiary of Boeing illegally helped the CIA fly terror suspects abroad on rendition flights.<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union brought the case against Jeppesen Dataplan, saying it &#8220;falsified flight plans&#8230; to avoid public scrutiny&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But a San Francisco judge halted the case, as the CIA director had urged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The very subject matter of this case is a state secret,&#8221; Judge James Ware wrote in a ruling. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>CIA director Michael Hayden had earlier urged the judge to dismiss the case because he said that covert operations overseas could be exposed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CIA flights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ACLU brought the case on behalf of five men who alleged the CIA had flown them to foreign prisons, where they were interrogated and tortured.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs were an Ethiopian living in the UK, an Italian working in Pakistan, an Egyptian citizen living in Sweden, a Yemeni, and an Iraqi who was a British resident.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit against Jeppesen had claimed the services they provided were crucial to the flights.<\/p>\n<p>However, Jeppesen had said it could not confirm if it was involved with the flights.<\/p>\n<p>A report approved by a European Parliament committee last year said more than 1,000 covert CIA flights had crossed European airspace or stopped at European airports in the four years after the 9\/11 attacks in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Jeppesen&#8217;s participation allegedly included securing necessary landing and overflight permits for the flights between the US, Pakistan, Ireland, Cyprus, Morocco, and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC A US judge has dismissed a case alleging that a subsidiary of Boeing illegally helped the CIA fly terror suspects abroad on rendition flights. The American Civil Liberties Union brought the case against Jeppesen Dataplan, saying it &#8220;falsified flight plans&#8230; to avoid public scrutiny&#8221;. But a San Francisco judge halted the case, as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-2466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"tag-cia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}