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'Stephen Grey has broken many of the first and best news stories about the CIA's secret program of terrorist renditions. He got the flight plans of the CIA's fleet that everyone else wanted to see.' -Jane Mayer, The New Yorker.'A pioneering study.' -London Review of Books'A compelling and fast-paced read. Grey's account compares with Woodward and Brenstein's All Presidents' Men as a prodigious piece of detective work.' -Courier Mail, Brisbane
Newsweek, 13 October 2006
'Grey managed to acquire unclassified flight-plan records tracking
the movements of the suspected CIA planes around the world.'
the movements of the suspected CIA planes around the world.'
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The British investigative journalist Stephen Grey has done more than anyone else to expose the illegal American practice of Extraordinary Rendition, in which the CIA has been kidnapping people in other countries whom they suspect of involvement in terrorism and smuggling them (in contravention of the laws of the country concerned and of international law) to third countries where they can be interrogated and if necessary tortured without the constraints imposed by the laws and Constitution of the United States. Now he has pulled together the results of his investigations over recent years into a fascinating book, Ghost Plane, a gripping read and a masterly exposé of one of the greatest scandals of our time.
Stephen Grey was recently a runner-up for this year's Paul Foot award for investigative journalism. His citation said:
'Stephen Grey, for his work on the CIA's secret rendition policy, which he first investigated for the New Statesman two years ago and followed up with further revelations in the New York Times and Guardian. The judges admired "a long term, painstaking and immaculate piece of journalism that began with flat denials from the Bush administration and ended with a reluctant admission. A most remarkable victory for one outstandingly dogged journalist against a very mean machine.'
Stephen Grey's book and the revelations of official crookedness that it charts demonstrate that the monstrous apparatus of official secrecy erected to protect indefensible behaviour by governments can still be penetrated by dogged, determined and principled journalism, if the working journalist can rely on the equally courageous support of editors and proprietors (remember Watergate). Some discreet help and encouragement from officials on the inside are probably also indispensable, and it's heartening to see Grey acknowledging the help he received from some in the CIA itself, to whose other work he pays striking tribute.
This book is an important contribution to the history of our times and it deserves to be very widely read.
Stephen Grey was recently a runner-up for this year's Paul Foot award for investigative journalism. His citation said:
'Stephen Grey, for his work on the CIA's secret rendition policy, which he first investigated for the New Statesman two years ago and followed up with further revelations in the New York Times and Guardian. The judges admired "a long term, painstaking and immaculate piece of journalism that began with flat denials from the Bush administration and ended with a reluctant admission. A most remarkable victory for one outstandingly dogged journalist against a very mean machine.'
Stephen Grey's book and the revelations of official crookedness that it charts demonstrate that the monstrous apparatus of official secrecy erected to protect indefensible behaviour by governments can still be penetrated by dogged, determined and principled journalism, if the working journalist can rely on the equally courageous support of editors and proprietors (remember Watergate). Some discreet help and encouragement from officials on the inside are probably also indispensable, and it's heartening to see Grey acknowledging the help he received from some in the CIA itself, to whose other work he pays striking tribute.
This book is an important contribution to the history of our times and it deserves to be very widely read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Stephen Grey, a former editor of the Sunday Times Insight investigation team, broke many of the news stories about the CIAs programme of secret renditions. In this extremely useful book, he gives us the fullest account yet of this programme. He exposes the CIAs covert aircraft fleet, Aero Contractors, and also describes how CIA planes operated illegally in Venezuela to support the attempted coup against President Chavez in 2002.
The CIA runs a system of clandestine prisons holding thousands of kidnapped prisoners, taken from Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Germany, Italy, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Zambia, Gambia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia to be tortured in Afghanistan, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Syria, Egypt and Morocco. Grey writes, the foreign torture cells of Cairo and Damascus and the US jails at Guantanamo and Bagram were part of one interconnected gulag in which prisoners were swapped both between countries but also between the CIA and the US military.
Grey asked Edward Walker, US Ambassador to Egypt, When Condoleezza Rice and the president now stand in front of people and say we dont send people to countries where they torture, are they telling the truth? Walker replied, No, theyre not telling the truth. A CIA official said, nothing was done without approval from the White House from Condoleezza Rice herself.
The Bush and Blair governments talk democracy but support dictatorship. For example, in 2002, the State Department said Uzbekistan routinely tortured prisoners, then gave it an extra $180 million aid. Grey points out that the Blair government connived in the renditions and in the use of torture, by using the information gained from torturing prisoners. Nor has the Blair government defended British citizens from CIA rendition.
Grey also notes that the illegal war on Iraq is a counter-productive diversion from the struggle against Al-Qaeda. As Britains Joint Intelligence Committee said in April 2005, We judge that the conflict in Iraq has exacerbated the threat from international terrorism and will continue to have an impact in the long term. It has reinforced the determination of terrorists who were already committed to attacking the West and motivated others who were not. The JIC said that the war provided an additional motivation for attacks on Britain and was increasing Al Qaedas potential.
Similarly, the US governments appalling treatment of prisoners has worsened the threat from Al-Qaeda. Grey concludes, Americas programme of extraordinary rendition and its harsh treatment of prisoners have not, when considered strategically, been successful weapons against terrorism.
The CIA runs a system of clandestine prisons holding thousands of kidnapped prisoners, taken from Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Germany, Italy, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Zambia, Gambia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia to be tortured in Afghanistan, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Syria, Egypt and Morocco. Grey writes, the foreign torture cells of Cairo and Damascus and the US jails at Guantanamo and Bagram were part of one interconnected gulag in which prisoners were swapped both between countries but also between the CIA and the US military.
Grey asked Edward Walker, US Ambassador to Egypt, When Condoleezza Rice and the president now stand in front of people and say we dont send people to countries where they torture, are they telling the truth? Walker replied, No, theyre not telling the truth. A CIA official said, nothing was done without approval from the White House from Condoleezza Rice herself.
The Bush and Blair governments talk democracy but support dictatorship. For example, in 2002, the State Department said Uzbekistan routinely tortured prisoners, then gave it an extra $180 million aid. Grey points out that the Blair government connived in the renditions and in the use of torture, by using the information gained from torturing prisoners. Nor has the Blair government defended British citizens from CIA rendition.
Grey also notes that the illegal war on Iraq is a counter-productive diversion from the struggle against Al-Qaeda. As Britains Joint Intelligence Committee said in April 2005, We judge that the conflict in Iraq has exacerbated the threat from international terrorism and will continue to have an impact in the long term. It has reinforced the determination of terrorists who were already committed to attacking the West and motivated others who were not. The JIC said that the war provided an additional motivation for attacks on Britain and was increasing Al Qaedas potential.
Similarly, the US governments appalling treatment of prisoners has worsened the threat from Al-Qaeda. Grey concludes, Americas programme of extraordinary rendition and its harsh treatment of prisoners have not, when considered strategically, been successful weapons against terrorism.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is an expose of CIA activities that transported hundreds of prisoners to foreign jails (extraordinary rendition)to be tortured despite the 2005 absolute denial by Condalezza Rice the US secretary of state that this did not occur.
The book covers flights from 1987-2006 that transported prisoners by CIA jets and gives details of 9 of those transported.
A very well written and researched book with 40 pages of notes.
The book questions thee integrity of America, its government and particularly the CIA.
The book covers flights from 1987-2006 that transported prisoners by CIA jets and gives details of 9 of those transported.
A very well written and researched book with 40 pages of notes.
The book questions thee integrity of America, its government and particularly the CIA.
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