The American Civil Liberties Union said today it is suing a unit of plane maker and defense contractor Boeing for providing flight services to the US Central Intelligence Agency as it secretly flew abducted foreigners to overseas prisons where they were held and interrogated.
The rights group said it would file a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. in the US District Court for the Northern District of California later today on behalf of three people it said had been abducted by the CIA.