Consequently, not a single victim of the "war on terror" has had the opportunity to tell his story in a court of law and not a single senior US official has been held accountable.
Who are these victims who keep banging on the courthouse doors?
Here are three of the most prominent:
Jeppesen DataPlan is a subsidiary of The Boeing Company, and specializes in flight planning and logistical support services for aircraft and crews, including those used by the CIA to transport victims to U.S.-run prisons or foreign intelligence agencies overseas, where they were subjected to harsh interrogation techniques and torture.
In the Jeppesen case, five British residents -- all of whom were imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay -- sued Jeppesen for assisting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with logistics for the flights to Afghanistan and CIA secrets prisons where they were held incommunicado and tortured. The men claim they were victims of the U.S. "extraordinary rendition" program -- and that Jeppesen was complicit in the process.
The judge rejected the ACLU's claim that "abundant evidence" was already in the public domain, including a sworn affidavit by a former Jeppesen employee and flight records confirming Jeppesen's involvement.
The ACLU appealed the case all the way to the Supreme Court, which declined to hear it.
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