Jet used by Crist (Fl.) has unusual history - torture plane

[donsu]

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060820/NEWS/608200301


The private jet used by Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist this weekend for a tour of the state has ties to the CIA and the war on terror.

Under its previous owner, the jet was leased to the CIA to carry a suspected terrorist to another country where he was tortured, according to the Amnesty International Web site.

The plane's current owner is Stuart Lasher, a Tampa businessman and friend of Crist's. He said he wasn't aware of the CIA's use of the plane when he bought it in 2004.

-snip-

Crist's campaign is paying Lasher for the use of the plane, which carried Crist supporters, including U.S. Sens. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., and John McCain, R-Ariz., to Pensacola, Orlando, Miami and Jacksonville.

-snip-

The Amnesty International Web site says the plane, identified by its tail number, was used to transfer a Canadian man from the United States to Jordan, where he was tortured.
-snip-
----------------------------------


McCain in a torture plane - hope it gave him nightmares

of course Lasher knew the history of the plane.