Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights
ISBN-13:
9781933633091
ISBN-10:
1933633093
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Trevor Paglen, AC Thompson
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
Melville House
Format:
Hardcover
208 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781933633091
ISBN-10:
1933633093
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Trevor Paglen, AC Thompson
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
Melville House
Format:
Hardcover
208 pages
Summary
Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights (ISBN-13: 9781933633091 and ISBN-10: 1933633093), written by authors
Trevor Paglen, AC Thompson, was published by Melville House in 2006.
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"We don't kick the shit out of them. We send them to other countries so that they can kick the shit out of them."-A U.S. official involved in CIA renditions
Some detainees have been taken to Egypt and Morocco to be tortured and interrogated. Others have been transported to secret CIA-run facilities in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan, where they, too, have been tortured. Many of the kidnapped detainees have ended up at the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo, but others have been disappeared entirely.
In this first book to systematically investigate extraordinary rendition, an award-winning investigative journalist and a "military geographer" explore the CIA program in a series of journeys that takes them around the world. They travel to suburban Massachusetts to profile a CIA front company that supplies the agency with airplanes; to Smithfield, North Carolina, to meet pilots who fly CIA aircraft; to the San Francisco suburbs to study with a "planespotter" who tracks the CIA's movements; and to Afghanistan, where the authors visit the notorious "Salt Pit" prison and meet released Afghan detainees.
They find that nearly five years after 9/11, the kidnappings have not stopped. On the contrary, the rendition program has been formalized, colluding with the military when necessary, and constantly changing its cover to remain hidden from sight.
Trevor Paglen is an expert on clandestine military installations. A widely exhibited artist and photographer, he is the author of the two-volume study Secret Bases, Secret Wars.
A.C. Thompson, winner of a 2005 George Polk Award, is a staff writer at the S.F. Weekly. He is a two-time winner of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency's PASS Award for crime reporting, and twice the recipient of the Western Publication Association's Maggie Award.
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