http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav In the current New Yorker, Jane Mayer reports that Washington's favorite aerospace company has been helping the CIA with it's "extraordinary rendition" program: On the official Web site of Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company, there is a section devoted to a subsidiary called Jeppesen International Trip Planning, based in San Jose, California. The write-up mentions that the division "offers everything needed for efficient, hassle-free, international flight operations,” spanning the globe "from Aachen to Zhengzhou.” The paragraph concludes, "Jeppesen has done it all.” Boeing does not mention, either on its Web site or in its annual report, that Jeppesen's clients... Copyright 2008 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:30:48 -0800 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:57:27 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss International Trip Planning. There's a euphemism for our times.

]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482065 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482065 City Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:43:03 -0800 Boeing's always been deep in bed with U.S. military hawks. As an anecdote: in the 60s, its employees in the Seattle area had an active John Birch Society chapter, and the company allowed it to use Boeing meeting rooms to show their conspiracy flicks etc.

]]> trevor http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482072 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482072 City Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:49:49 -0800 Right, Trevor. Boeing executives also played a big role in driving the Birchers out of the state Republican Party in the 60s. Racist Birch kookery is bad for business, always has been. And of course, they're not defense contractors, they're "deep in bed". This is rhetoric taking the place of thought. It's not only a huge leap from "defense contractor" to "John Birch Society", it's a huge leap from "defense contractor" to "torture flights". This doesn't sound like anything that old-school Boeing people would have tolerated; it sounds like Harry Stonecipher and McDonnell-Douglass to me.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482098 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482098 City Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:21:47 -0800 well - the one thning that is not a surprise is --- the CIA spares no expense --- the black box budget which funds vast parts of the govt. in these times.

]]> Jack http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482103 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482103 City Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:31:57 -0800 "Your purchase of an eight-ball will fund one half of one extraordinary rendition. Enjoy!"

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482133 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482133 City Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:57:01 -0800 The torture victims asked for this. They kept saying "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going", so Boeing had to do the patriotic thing.

]]> Boeing Boeing http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482195 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/boeing_the_cias_trav#c482195 City Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:57:27 -0800