Win Ghost Plane: The True Story Of The CIA Torture Program Written By Stephen Grey Represented In Digital Copy

of the story here has been told in other places, or hinted at over time, I'd not seen as detailed an account with sources listed for any of this before, It's frightening how poorly the gov't is covering it's tracks here, It's also frightening that this thinly veiled process is being used at all!

I'm shocked, as an american citizen at the activities.
I'm also distressed that the public policy stand on what's happening isdegrees off from the reality on the ground, Folks are being spirited away across the world and dumped in their 'home country' for 'offenses' which most often are trumped up out of previous victims and their loose associations.
Joe knows sally knows jim, jim must therefore be involved in the treachery, . .

Then the fact that everyone involved in the process knows, with a definite certainty, that the victims are going to be tortured.
. . and they are still remanded to the foreign gov'ts, This is shameful activity for this government to be partaking in, the output is not useful there is no justification for this, at all.


There have been more than a few past governments which have ended up with folks on war crimes trials for activities far less dubious than are outlined in the book.
The author doesn't like extraordinary rendition, I finished

this book as I purchased it, It was well documented in terms of flight records but I disagree with many of his political beliefs that are very obvious.
What I found most interesting was how the author and his colleagues from around the world put together the pieces to expose the CIA's rendition program.
This book is detailed not only in the telling of the story but also in how the program evolved, For the haters of George W, Bush, they're not going to like knowing that this program was going on long before he took office, That said, he and those in his administration did expand upon it on an exponential level,

Ghose Plan is worth the time and energy if you want a detailed and unbiased study of the issue, Most of this is a chapter by chapter case by case analysis of various individuals alleged to have ties to terrorist groups who were snatched up by the CIA, taken to countries where there are no laws against torturing people and basicly tortured by outsourcing.
As if this wasn't bad enough the ties any of these people had to terrorism were very dubious at best, I have to commend Greys investigative journalism in putting this book together, The book itself wasn't overly exciting or interesting to read for me but thats probably because I was already familiar with most of the subject matter covered in this book.
Still its a worthwhile read, Pretty eye opening book into rendition flights, It was a little rough in some parts, but I never felt like it was an antigovernment feel, It's pretty neutral. In extraordinary detail and based on immense amounts of research, journalist Stephen Grey examines some of the most appalling aspects of America's socalled war on terror.
While I was familiar in broad strokes with a number of the specific cases discussed here, this book provided a lot more detailed information than I had previously come across.
Thorough and very informative. I have to admit, when I see a military or war non fiction book is written by a journalist my trust in the account being unbiased and devoid of sensationalism slips.

Pair that with the promotional line on the back of this book that states "Hundreds more have been flown away on the Ghost plane to be tortured with the full knowledge of the US Government and in the name of the American people.
Who will be next"
My red flags automatically start going up, That there, is journalistic sensationalism at its finest,

The American Government and the Central Intelligence Agency make an easy target for journalists and humanitarian activists, That's not to say that neither of them commit crimes against humanity, because they do although they do not do it alone, there are plenty of other covert agencies and countries that are equally to blame for humanitarian compromises in the pursuit of terrorists and their coconspirators.


Stephen Grey, however, was not just another journalist looking to sully the name of the company, The story he tells in this book is what I would call mostly an unbiased account of CIA counter terrorism activities around the world.
Counter terrorism activities that pivot around the CIA Rendition Program and most especially include attention on, extraordinary renditions, Kidnapping suspects and contracting torture out to third parties,
He devotes some sections of chapters to questioning the pros and cons of enhanced torture techniques and snatch missions,
We often question what part of a confession gleaned under enhanced torture methods is true and what is not, Torture sure can make a mess of intelligence gathering, The act of using pain and physical intimidation to harvest confessions from suspects can void the confession completely, Making it inadmissible as evidence, There definitely are more negatives to torture than positives and I think the sooner the CIA moves away from these enhanced methods the better.


If Stephen Grey sullies the name of the CIA or the American Government of the time, then they are only doing it to themselves.
Grey will give you the evidence, Then you go make up your own mind,
Sometimes the CIA screws up so much that a good journalist does not even have to sensationalise anything,
At times in this book, you will be stunned at how easy the CIA was to be tracked and monitored by a civilian.
Which prompts me to ask, If a journalist can track and trace the CIA so easily on his own, how simple must it be for our enemies to do the same

I highly recommend this book to people who are not out to watch the CIA burn at the stake.
If you want a witch hunt then there are other books that beat that drum,
While I am not saying this book is proCIA because it is far from being that, what I am saying is that the author is not going to pump your head so full of anti Government/anti covert agency crap that you cannot see the forest for the trees.


The book is an awesome piece of humanitarian journalism and the author is an incredible investigative journalist who went after proof of the CIA's scandalous activities in the name of the Rendition Program and brought them out into the light.




Incredibly thorough research, a real resource, and compelling writing, .