Jeremy Scahill - Blackwater

69 Press release, “Blackwater USA Completes Acquisition of Aviation Worldwide Services,” PRWEB, May 3, 2003.

70 Ibid.

71 Author copy of National Transportation Safety Board accident docket.

72 Ibid.

73 Press release, “Blackwater USA Completes Acquisition of Aviation Worldwide Services,” PRWEB, March 3, 2003.

74 Jeffrey S. Hampton, “Blackwater Aviation Unit to Relocate,” Virginian-Pilot, March 29, 2006.

75 Ibid.

76 Ibid.

77 “Hangar Plaque Honors C.I.A.’s Air Operative,” New York Times, December 30, 1985.

78 David E. Hendrix, “CIA Got Burned on Airplane Deal, Suit Says Hemet City Councilman James Venable Ended Up with Some of the Planes,” Press-Enterprise, January 11, 1996.

79 Press Release, April 12, 2006.

80 Stephen Grey, Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program, St. Martin’s, New York, 1996, pp. 142-143.

81 Ibid., p. 125.

82 Aaron Sarver, “Tracking the CIA Torture Flights,” In These Times, September 27, 2006.

83 All flight records from flightaware.com accessed in October and November 2006.

84 “To Catch a Spy,” Washington Post, March 26, 2006.

85 Author copy of National Transportation Safety Board accident docket.

86 Stephen Grey, Ghost Plane , p. 39.

87 Author copy of National Transportation Safety Board accident docket.

88 Ibid.

89 Glen Owen, “The Picture That Proves ‘Torture Flights’ Are STILL Landing in the UK,” Daily Mail , June 10, 2007.

90 Blackwater press release, “British Tabloid Withdraws False Story on Blackwater,” June 14, 2007.

91 Barry Yeoman, “Soldiers of Good Fortune,” Mother Jones, May/June 2003.

92 Interviews, July, August 2006; Ken Silverstein, “Revolving Door to Blackwater Causes Alarm at CIA,” Harper’s , www.harpers.org/sb-revolving-door-blackwater-1158094722.html, September 12, 2006; Robert Young Pelton, Licensed to Kill .

93 Michael Hirsh, John Barry, and Daniel Klaidman, “Interrogation: A Tortured Debate,” Newsweek, June 21, 2006.

1 Bob Woodward, Bush at War , pp. 50-52.

2 Biographical information on Cofer Black is largely drawn from Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Penguin, New York, 2004.

3 Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, p. 267.

4 Ibid., p. 267.

5 Ibid., “Front Matter.”

6 Ibid., p. 271.

7 Ibid., p. 267.

8 Billy Waugh with Tim Keown, Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Ground Soldier’s Fifty-Year Career Hunting America’s Enemies, William Morrow, New York, 2004, p. 143.

9 Robert Young Pelton, Licensed to Kill, p. 28.

10 Steve Coll, Ghost Wars , p. 271.

11 Ibid., pg. 271.

12 Billy Waugh with Tim Keown, Hunting the Jackal, p. 151.

13 Ibid. , p. 150.

14 Ibid., p. 155.

15 Ibid., pp. 156-157.

16 Ibid., pp. 156-200.

17 Ibid., p. 198.

18 J. Cofer Black official biography, U.S. Department of State.

19 Ibid.

20 Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, p. 454.

21 Ned Zeman, David Wise, David Rose, and Bryan Burrough, “The Path to 9/11: Lost Warnings and Fatal Errors,” Vanity Fair, November 2004.

22 James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies, Doubleday, New York, 2004 , p. 221.

23 J. Cofer Black testimony before the 9/11 Commission, April 13, 2004.

24 J. Cofer Black testimony before the Joint House/Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing into September 11, September 26, 2002.

25 Ibid.

26 Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, p. 455.

27 James Bamford, A Pretext for War, p. 219; Ned Zeman, David Wise, David Rose and Bryan Burrough, “The Path to 9/11: Lost Warnings and Fatal Errors,” Vanity Fair, November 2004.

28 Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, p. 492.

29 Ibid., pp. 456-459.

30 Ibid., p. 457.

31 Ibid, pp. 456-457.

32 James Bamford, A Pretext for War, p. 219.

33 Nick Paton Walsh, “The Envoy Who Said Too Much: One Minute He Was Our Man in Tashkent, the Next He Was a Major Embarrassment for the Foreign Office,” Guardian, July 15, 2004.

34 Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, p. 502.

35 James Bamford, A Pretext for War, p. 220.

36 Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, p. 516.

37 Ibid., p. 518.

38 Jon Lee Anderson, “A Lion’s Death: The Assassination of the Taliban’s Most Important Afghan opponent,” The New Yorker, October 1, 2001.

39 Steve Coll, Ghost Wars , p. 543

40 Ned Zeman, David Wise, David Rose, and Bryan Burrough, “The Path to 9/11: Lost Warnings and Fatal Errors,” Vanity Fair, November 2004.

41 Ibid.

42 “Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice,” Washington Post, October 1, 2006.

43 Ibid.

44 Ibid.

45 Author copy of declassified memo titled “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US,” August 6, 2001.

46 J. Cofer Black testimony before the Joint House/Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing into September 11, September 26, 2002.

47 Gordon Corera, “How Terror Attacks Changed the CIA,” BBC News Online, March 12, 2006.

48 Bob Woodward, Bush at War , Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002, p. 52.

49 Ibid.

50 Ibid.

51 Gary Schroen, First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan, Ballantine, New York, 2005, p. 38.

52 Ibid.

53 Ibid.

54 Jane Mayer, “The Search for Osama,” The New Yorker, August 4, 2003.

55 Bob Woodward, Bush at War, p. 103.

56 Robert Young Pelton, Licensed to Kill, pp. 30-32.

57 Transcript, Interview with Steve Coll, PBS Frontline, www.pbs.org/ wgbh/pages/frontline/ darkside/interviews/coll.html, posted June 20, 2006.

58 Dana Priest, “Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake German Citizen Released After Months in ‘Rendition,’” Washington Post, December 4, 2005.

59 Ibid.

60 Dana Priest and Barton Gellman, “U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations; ‘Stress and Duress’ Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas Facilities,” Washington Post, December 26, 2002.

61 Transcript, Wolf Blitzer Reports, CNN, April 30, 2004.

62 Dana Priest, “Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake German Citizen Released After Months in ‘Rendition,’” Washington Post, December 4, 2005.

63 Ibid.

64 Dana Priest and Barton Gellman, “U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations; ‘Stress and Duress’ Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas Facilities,” Washington Post, December 26, 2002.

65 Ibid.

66 Michael Hirsh, John Barry, and Daniel Klaidman, “A Tortured Debate,” Newsweek, June 21, 2004.

67 Jane Mayer, “Outsourcing Torture,” The New Yorker , February 14, 2005.

68 Ibid.

69 Jane Mayer, “Outsourcing Torture,” The New Yorker , February 14, 2005.

70 Evan Thomas and Michael Hirsh, “Torture and Terror: Interrogators Have Pondered the Uses of Torture for Centuries and in the Wake of 9/11 the US Has Embraced So-called Torture Lite,” Newsweek, November 22, 2005.

71 Dana Priest, “Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake German Citizen Released After Months in ‘Rendition,’” the Washington Post, December 4, 2005.

72 Richard Sale, “Embarrassed Rumsfeld Fired CIA Official,” United Press International, July 28, 2004.