RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina state and local officials should prosecute participants in a CIA program that ferried terrorism suspects to secret sites where they were tortured, an advocacy group seeking to stir action over the former U.S. policy is demanding. Prosecution is one of dozens of recommendations to be released Thursday by the private, 11-member North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture. The group’s focus on North Carolina springs from the reported involvement in the CIA program of Aero Contractors Limited. “Instead of holding Aero accountable, the State of North Carolina and Johnston County until now have effectively endorsed its activities. Spokesmen for Cooper did not respond when asked why he hasn’t investigated or discussed North Carolina’s connections to the CIA program.

Source: National Post September 26, 2018 17:26 UTC