Supreme Court Denies Request to Hear Lawsuit by Victims of CIA Extraordinary Rendition Program

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2011.  The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it would not hear a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of five men who were kidnapped by the CIA, sent to U.S.-run prisons overseas and tortured as part of the Bush administration’s “extraordinary rendition” program. The ACLU and the ACLU of Northern California sued Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan in May 2007, charging that the company knowingly provided direct logistical support…