'Destroyed' Flight Logs in CIA Rendition Row

Diego Garcia: Heavy Rain That 'Destroyed' Flight Logs in CIA Rendition Row Wasn't So Heavy

September 3, 2014 - The UK government has never been decisive when it comes to Diego Garcia, the British Indian Ocean territory leased to the US which has been implicated in the CIA's torture and rendition programme. First extraordinary rendition flights weren't landing there, and then they were. Next a Foreign Office minister said flight logs detailing the CIA's global abduction operation had been destroyed by "extremely heavy weather", then they'd dried out.

Now the UK Foreign Office's own records, released last month under Freedom of Information laws, have confirmed that the "extremely heavy weather" amounted to 3.25 inches of rain.

That was actually a dry June for Diego Garcia, where that month sees an average of 5.4 inches of rain - again, according to the Foreign Office. It was also an exceptionally dry month of the year, given the atoll's annual average of about 100 inches of rainfall. read more>>>

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