NYU Brennan Center "along with outside co-counsel, is representing a group of former United States ambassadors and diplomats filing brief as amicus curiae on the diplomatic impact of CIA extraordinary rendition practices in the case of Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. Amici include former Ambassador Morton Abramowitz and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Southwick. The case is a damages action for Jeppesen Dataplan's involvement in providing aircraft, pilots, and logistical support for CIA rendition flights involved in transporting detainees to U.S. secret prisons and black sites where they were subjected to torture. The case was dismissed on the basis of the state secrets privilege, which was invoked by the CIA after it intervened in the case."

Posted by Laura at July 8, 2008 11:40 PM