I just learned that the harassment and retaliation I experienced frequently at Boeing for near a decade just because I tried to do my critical job of inspecting the construction of Boeing aircraft instead of just rollerstamping jobs off without inspecting the work was perhaps not the worst Boeing could have done to me. It seems that Boeing has been taking people to locations where they were tortured! Although the harassment and retaliation I experienced at Boeing's hands seemed like torture, I don't think it was worse than what the people experienced that Boeing took to torture. Here is a link to the story:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/n ... ion31.html

The line that is most ominous from the Seattle Times story is this one:

"(Jane) Mayer (in an article she wrote in the New Yorker magazine) wrote that a former Jeppesen (a Boeing subsidary) employee told her he heard a senior company official say at a board meeting: "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."

So, if Boeing wants to give you a free ride on a plane, you might want to think twice or more about it. Although Boeing breaks the law at will in its factories in the U.S. as noted on this site, there are more protection of your rights here in the U.S. than you'd have on one of these "torture flights" Boeing did/does for a price.

This brings new meaning to that Boeing commercial I heard twice today on TV -- "We know why we're here." That senior Boeing official in the board meeting as noted in the news story sure seemed to know what he was doing there---"We do all of the...torture flights." Somehow I don't think you'll see Boeing working that service they provide into their "Why we're here" commercials, with the senior Boeing manager noted in the article stating at the end of the commercial, "That's why we're here."

You'll also notice in the linked article that Both the government and Boeing conveniently hide behind supposed confidentiality policies so they won't have to admit to any of it or talk about it at all.

It would be one thing if Boeing transported these people to destinations and they knew nothing about the horrors that the presumed guilty people had done to them after the flight. But the article shows Boeing was fully aware of what they were facilitating for a price. So much for Boeing ethics. If I was still a Boeing employee, I couldn't wait to see if they added that scenario to the annual ethics training: "If you were performing a contract transporting people and it came to your attention you and your client were violating the Constitution and perhaps other laws of the land by doing so, and that you were delivering the people to be tortured outside the bounds of law, what would be the ethical thing to do?--pick either A, B, C, D, or E." Just as in the case of the commercial, I would guess you would never see that in the training.

So what more evidence do you need that Boeing enterprise wide is still a very ethically challenged company, and that profits still trump ethics and following laws? You have this new case, as well as the others I witnessed documented on this site.

I guess, after the above truth telling, Boeing may want to persecute me further by giving me such a free flight to "torture-ville." Now I understand more than ever why Boeing has tortured me over the years with threats to my job, my person, my pay, confinement away from my job, termination, threatened prosecution, etc. Druyun and Sears and the Lockheed data theft scandals were not an end to unethical if not illegal actions by Boeing as the above attests--they were just the mild beginnings of scandals to come.

If I was a deranged P.R. person, I might advise Boeing to go on the offensive with this, and try to convince the public Boeing did it because of extreme patriotism, helping the endless fight against terrorism. 28 percent of the public may believe it.

I expect Congress will strip the DOD and Boeing of their confidentiality protections so they can both testify to what happened in detail before a Congressional investigation into these troubling events.