A Conversation About the CIA Torture
Program
ACLU attorney Steven Watt spoke with journalist
and Ghost Plane author Stephen Grey about the CIA torture
program.
Watt is one of the many people Grey interviewed while
investigating the secret program for the book. Ghost Plane tells
the stories of "extraordinary rendition," where CIA operatives
abduct foreign nationals for detention and interrogation in secret
overseas prisons. Grey outlines the ethical picture of the war
on terror and lays the responsibility for abduction and torture
at the doorstep of Washington, D.C.
The ACLU is challenging extraordinary rendition
on behalf of Khaled
El-Masri, an entirely innocent victim of rendition
who was released without ever being charged.
The lawsuit charges that former CIA director George Tenet and U.S. based aviation
corporations violated U.S. and universal human rights laws -- including the
right to be free from torture -- when they abducted El Masri beat him, drug
him, and transported him to a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan.
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Stephen
Grey is
a London-based journalist, and writes about national security issues. His
book on the CIA rendition program, Ghost Plane, was published in
the U.S. in October 2006. 
Steven
Watt is an ACLU attorney
and has advocated for social justice at the
Center for Constitutional Rights, as a public defender in the Solomon
Islands, at a housing camp in Tanzania, and evaluated the socio-economic
consequences of HIV/AIDS in Uganda.
