A.C Thompson and Trevor Paglen’s book, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (2007, Melville Press) details how, using an intricate and longstanding domestic infrastructure, the CIA used the events of 9/11 to grab influence and support for an expanded international covert network of planes, used to ferry political prisoners to and from secret prisons (dryly referred to as “extraordinary rendition”), where many were tortured. Thompson is a mostly San Francisco-based investigative journalist; Paglen is an artist, writer, and “experimental geographer” working out of the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. Brian Awehali sat down with both of them to talk about how they got the story, what the story means, and what can be done in response.

READ ON (PDF): Torture, Inc.: Anatomy of a CIA Front Company