The torture business lands in Portland

[struggle4progress]

Sunday, March 06, 2005
DAVID SARASOHN

<snip> Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., is actually asking Congress to investigate a hometown company. Moreover, the company is in a booming business, which will be profiled on "60 Minutes" tonight. <snip>

Moreover, Blumenauer wrote, "I am additionally troubled by the use of a Gulfstream V jet registered to a shadowy -- and possibly illegal -- dummy front company, Bayard Foreign Marketing LLC, in my hometown of Portland, Oregon. Press reports have found no public record of the company's alleged owner, nor have calls to their office been successful at locating him. The evidence certainly points to a violation of Oregon law in order to hide the true nature and breadth of this extraordinary rendition program."

Picky, picky, picky.

Here we have a Portland company involved in what is clearly a growth industry -- the United States shipping prisoners secretly around the world to be tortured by countries that lack the U.S. Constitution or scruples -- and people insist on looking at it as a human rights violation instead of an economic development opportunity. <snip>

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf?/base/editorial/111002776789770.xml

[NVMojo]

1. I'm just surprised that it is home-based in Oregon ...

[Syncronaut Seven]

2. Nah. We've had Evergreen here for quite awhile.

They communicate on shortwave, Freq hops around abit but I've picked up comms from their planes all up and down the West Coast.

Nasty buisness. We should be investigating them too.

[roguevalley]

3. Oregonians go after crap that bothers them. GO PORTLAND!

RV, from the Rogue Valley