At a time when eight out of ten Republican presidential wannabes don’t mind condoning torture on national television, this should come as no surprise:

The American Civil Liberties Union announced yesterday that it will sue a Boeing subsidiary, alleging that the company helped the Central Intelligence Agency with “the forced disappearance, torture, and inhumane treatment” of three men the government suspected of terrorist involvement.

“This is the first time we are accusing a blue-chip American company of profiting from torture,” said ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner, who spoke about the case, filed in federal court in San Jose, Calif., at a news conference in New York.

Since at least 2001, Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., of San Jose, “has provided direct and substantial services to the United States for its so-called ‘extraordinary rendition’ program, enabling the clandestine and forcible transportation of suspects to secret overseas detention facilities where they are placed beyond the reach of the law and subjected to torture and other forms of cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment,” the suit alleges.

And folks wonder why so many people around the world dislike Americans.

From US Libertarian Party

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