Running Time: 51:30
Description:Extraordinary rendition is a euphemism for a CIA program to kidnap people and fly them to secret prisons around the world for torture. We are being told this is a good thing.
Documentation
| Documentation – CIA’s secret jails open up new transatlantic rift | |
| Time Reference: | 05:42 |
| Description: | Includes background info on the beginnings of the extraordinary rendition program. |
| Link To: | Guardian |
| Documentation – Against All Enemies | |
| Time Reference: | 06:30 |
| Description: | From counterterror “czar” Richard Clarke’s memoirs. |
| Link To: | Archive.org |
| Documentation – Presidential Decision Directive 39 | |
| Time Reference: | 07:43 |
| Description: | Clinton allows the CIA to capture people from any country, with or without that country’s consent. |
| Link To: | FAS |
| Documentation – Tapes depict proposal to thwart bombs used in Trade Center blast | |
| Time Reference: | 08:52 |
| Description: | The New York Times article which details how the FBI handlers directed their informant to help carry out the bombing. |
| Link To: | WhatReallyHappened |
| Documentation – Mystery Flights | |
| Time Reference: | 10:20 |
| Description: | The first part of a British documentary about the extraordinary rendition program. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Maher Arar | |
| Time Reference: | 16:08 |
| Description: | Information about the Canadian citizen extraordinarily rendered by the US to Syria against his will. |
| Link To: | MaherArar.ca |
| Documentation – Maher Arar speaks to a joint house hearing on extraordinary rendition | |
| Time Reference: | 16:48 |
| Description: | Maher Arar’s story in his own words. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Khaled El-Masri | |
| Time Reference: | 23:51 |
| Description: | Details of the German citizen who was kidnapped by the CIA while on vacation in Macedonia. |
| Link To: | ACLU |
| Documentation – Interview with Stephen Grey | |
| Time Reference: | 24:00 |
| Description: | Interview with the reporter who broke the extraordinary rendition program story. |
| Link To: | Youtube |
| Documentation – Council of Europe report on secret detentions | |
| Time Reference: | 24:18 |
| Description: | Links to the official reports issued by the COE investigation into the CIA black sites in Europe. |
| Link To: | Council of Europe |
| Documentation – Inside the secret prison | |
| Time Reference: | 25:25 |
| Description: | Brian Ross report about a former CIA agent agonizing about the terror techniques being used in the war on terror. |
| Link To: | Video No Longer Available Online |
| Documentation – CIA destroyed tapes despite court order | |
| Time Reference: | 31:29 |
| Description: | Tapes of the Zubaydah interrogation reported on by Brian Ross have mysteriously been destroyed…despite court orders that the CIA not destroy them. How curious. |
| Link To: | Star News Online |
| Documentation – FBI, CIA debate signficance of terror suspect | |
| Time Reference: | 32:13 |
| Description: | Zubaydah is largely a loud-mouthed and mentally troubled hotelier according to the FBI. |
| Link To: | Washington Post |
| Documentation – Daily Show on Republican presidential debate | |
| Time Reference: | 34:02 |
| Description: | What an exciting way to present the complex issue of terrorism and torture: by stealing the far-fetched plot of a tv show you’ve seen! |
| Link To: | The Daily Show |
| Documentation – Bill Clinton on torture and Jack Bauer | |
| Time Reference: | 36:24 |
| Description: | Bill Clinton gives a wink and a nod to Jack Bauer wannabes. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Is 24 propaganda? Is the Pope Catholic? | |
| Time Reference: | 37:56 |
| Description: | The first answer is yes. The second answer is debatable. |
| Link To: | PrisonPlanet.com |
| Documentation – Primetime Torture | |
| Time Reference: | 39:32 |
| Description: | Website from Human Rights First about positive presentations of torture in the media. |
| Link To: | Primetime Torture |
| Documentation – CNN report on 24 and torture | |
| Time Reference: | 39:53 |
| Description: | Is 24’s Jack Bauer teaching torture to US soldiers? |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Taguba report | |
| Time Reference: | 43:27 |
| Description: | Report by Major General Antonio Taguba about abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib. |
| Link To: | FAS |
| John Yoo (White House Counsel) defends President’s right to torture | |
| Time Reference: | 44:25 |
| Description: | A disgusting display of sycophancy. |
| Link To: | Soundcloud |
| Documentation – KSM confessed to targeting bank founded after his arrest | |
| Time Reference: | 45:16 |
| Description: | The supposed 9/11 mastermind plotted against a bank which wasn’t founded when he was arrested. |
| Link To: | 911Blogger |
| Documentation – US says it has right to kidnap British citizens | |
| Time Reference: | 46:34 |
| Description: | If Washington wants you, they can kidnap you anywhere in the world. |
| Link To: | Sunday Times |
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