I know Wikipedia is not always the ultimate truth, but it's an easy source that seems to be reasonably accurate.
Wiki describes Jeppesen as a company that does charting, sells pilot supplies and aviation training.
But then there is this paragraph...
Alleged involvement with CIA extraordinary rendition flights
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On October 23, 2006, the New Yorker reported that Jeppesen handled the logistical planning for the CIA's extraordinary rendition flights. The allegation is based on information from an ex-employee who quoted Bob Overby, managing director of the company as saying:
Quote:
"We do all of the extraordinary rendition flights—you know, the torture flights.
Let’s face it, some of these flights end up that way. It certainly pays well."
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The article went on to suggest that this may make Jeppesen a potential defendant in a law suit by Khaled El-Masri.[6] Jeppesen was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on May 30, 2007, on behalf of several other individuals who were allegedly subject to extraordinary rendition. The suit was dismissed in February, 2008 on a motion from the United States government, on theory that proceeding with the case would reveal state secrets and endanger relations with other nations that had cooperated.[7]
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The reason I continued reading about Jeppesen was the example that this company was just a taxicab (i.e., an unknowing, innocent bystander) in the rendition operations of the CIA, and so should not have been named in the lawsuit. But I had the nagging thought that if I were put into a taxi and was dropped off at some bar
against my will, and someone beat me, I would certainly think about suing the taxi company as a contributing factor.
Likewise, if the paragraph in Wikipedia is accurate, it seems reasonable for Jeppesen to have been named in the ACLU lawsuit.