Blackwater 'hired to transfer detainees'

[G_j]

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/blackwater-hired-to-transfer-detainees-20090823-eund.html

Blackwater 'hired to transfer detainees'
August 23, 2009 - 6:44AM

The US Central Intelligence Agency hired the private security firm Blackwater to transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to secret prisons in Asia for interrogation, the German weekly Der Spiegel says.

The news magazine cites a "memo" it says it obtained, written by two former Blackwater employees whose identities are not revealed.

According to the memo, the CIA hired "Blackwater and its subsidiaries" to secretly transfer prisoners from the US detention centre in Cuba to "secret detention camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan for interrogation".

The document "identifies the flights and reveals how these flights had been concealed", Der Spiegel says in its edition due out on Monday.

A CIA spokesman told the magazine the memo contained "errors".

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[G_j]

1. kick

[bobthedrummer]

2. I suppose that some of Wally Hilliard's air assets were used

"University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus Wallace J. Hilliard, his associates and family merit a post" (8-18-07 post in an interesting and still active parent thread)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=186x21683#21906

[G_j]

3. wow

interesting stuff, great research!

[Vidar]

4. What could possibly go "wrong"?