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Torture and NC culpability: the state owes apologies, restitution
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/12/15/4405850_torture-and-nc-culpability-the.html?rh=1BY ALLYSON CAISON AND JOSH MCINTYRE
December 15, 2014
It should be harder and harder for North Carolina’s top elected leaders to sustain their nine-year posture of willful blindness to our state’s place in the global infrastructure of torture.
It was in May 2005 that the New York Times broke the story. Headquartered at the Johnston County Airport, the CIA’s affiliate Aero Contractors was ferrying detainees to and among overseas sites where they were secretly held and tortured. Aero had also built a hangar at the Global TransPark, a state economic development project at the Kinston airport, because one of the most important “torture taxis” required a runway longer than the one in Smithfield.
Since then, reporters have usually treated Aero Contractors as if it were an ordinary private business. But the CIA has apparently been the only client, and indeed a 2007 landmark article by the News & Observer clarified that Aero was founded as a successor to the CIA’s Air America of Indochina fame.
To put it plainly: Aero Contractors is your tax dollars at work. It is the North Carolina arm of the CIA. It is hosted at public airports, which are funded by state and federal grants and overseen by elected state and county officials.
International conspiracies to carry out secret global programs require a vast infrastructure. Some resources are physical, some technical, and some governmental. A wide array of nations, local governments and contractors have aided in torture.
..more..
December 15, 2014
It should be harder and harder for North Carolina’s top elected leaders to sustain their nine-year posture of willful blindness to our state’s place in the global infrastructure of torture.
It was in May 2005 that the New York Times broke the story. Headquartered at the Johnston County Airport, the CIA’s affiliate Aero Contractors was ferrying detainees to and among overseas sites where they were secretly held and tortured. Aero had also built a hangar at the Global TransPark, a state economic development project at the Kinston airport, because one of the most important “torture taxis” required a runway longer than the one in Smithfield.
Since then, reporters have usually treated Aero Contractors as if it were an ordinary private business. But the CIA has apparently been the only client, and indeed a 2007 landmark article by the News & Observer clarified that Aero was founded as a successor to the CIA’s Air America of Indochina fame.
To put it plainly: Aero Contractors is your tax dollars at work. It is the North Carolina arm of the CIA. It is hosted at public airports, which are funded by state and federal grants and overseen by elected state and county officials.
International conspiracies to carry out secret global programs require a vast infrastructure. Some resources are physical, some technical, and some governmental. A wide array of nations, local governments and contractors have aided in torture.
..more..
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