{"id":13,"date":"2006-10-26T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-12-29T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T14:44:42","slug":"stephen-greys-ghost-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/10\/stephen-greys-ghost-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Grey&#8217;s Ghost Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ghost Plane by Stephen Grey\" src=\"http:\/\/files.stephengrey.com\/ghost%20plane%20hardback%20COVER.jpg\" title=\"Ghost Plane by Stephen Grey\" class=\"alignleft frame\" width=\"188\" height=\"285\" \/><span class=\"drop_cap\">M<\/span>y friend <a href='http:\/\/www.stephengrey.com\/'>Stephen Grey<\/a> (interest declared) has just produced a superb account of the CIA&#8217;s &#8216;extraordinary rendition&#8217; programme. It&#8217;s called <a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Ghost-Plane-Untold-Rendition-Programme\/dp\/1850658501'>GHOST PLANE The Inside Story of the CIA\u2019s Secret Rendition Programme<\/a>, and it&#8217;s out today.<\/p>\n<p>Some reviews: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018An explosive new book provides a rare glimpse into the full extent of the Agency\u2019s controversial terror renditions \u2014 and the curious coalition of partners who helped the US pull them off.\u2019   <br \/><em>Time Magazine<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s not often an author gets an unsolicited pre-publication stamp of legitimacy from the U.S. president, much less one who reports on human-rights issues.\u2019 <br \/><em>Kirkus, starred review<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2018An impressively detailed investigation that includes original reporting, public documents and a remarkable number of on-the-record interviews.\u2019  <br \/><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href='http:\/\/www.ghostplane.net.\/'>Ghost Plane<\/a> website to go with the book.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to see the work in progress, and it&#8217;s a cracking read. Stephen&#8217;s devotion to the project, and his dogged determination to pursue a story many were happy to see brushed aside is a flesh and blood example of the qualities we all admire as journalists, but can&#8217;t always live up to. Do yourself a favour &#8211; read it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Stephen Grey (interest declared) has just produced a superb account of the CIA&#8217;s &#8216;extraordinary rendition&#8217; programme. It&#8217;s called GHOST PLANE The Inside Story of the CIA\u2019s Secret Rendition Programme, and it&#8217;s out today. Some reviews: \u2018An explosive new book provides a rare glimpse into the full extent of the Agency\u2019s controversial terror renditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}