Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights
Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson talk about the CIA's practice of sending suspected terrorists to countries where, the authors argue, they are kept in secret prisons and subjected to torture. They explain how the CIA uses front companies to hide the real purpose of these rendition flights and discuss how they investigated the story. This event was hosted by City Lights bookstore in San Francisco.
Trevor Paglen, who is working on his PhD (Dept. of Geography, UC-Berkeley), is the author of the two-volume Secret Bases, Secret Wars. A.C. Thompson is a staff writer at S.F. Weekly.
Bio
Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.
His work involves deliberately blurring the lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to interpret the world around us. His most recent projects take up secret military bases, the California prison system, and the CIA's practice of "extraordinary rendition."
A.C. Thomspon
The 34-year-old Thompson joined the Guardian in 1998 and during his tenure there was a two-time winner of the Western Publication Association's Maggie Award and a two-time winner of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency's PASS Award for crime reporting.