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    Debi Cornwall: Prayer Rug with Arrow to Mecca, Camp Echo,
    from the book Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay.

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    Cornwall: Ronald Salutes,
    from Welcome to Camp America.

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    Edmund Clark, Cross-examination of Mahlon Richards. Richmor Aviation, Inc. vs Sportsflight Air, Inc., 2 July 2009, from Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition (Aperture/Magnum Foundation, 2016)

The case of Richmor vs Sportsflight centred on Richmor’s argument that after the termination of an initial six-month contract for flight services in 2002, they continued for another three years to have a legitimate expectation of a minimum of 50 flying hours per month. Richmor contended that they were owed money for any unflown hours up to this monthly minimum, in addition to the missions which they had flown (and had already been paid for). Sportsflight’s lawyer argued that the guarantee of 50 hours per month had lapsed at the beginning of 2003, and that Richmor’s claim was motivated by the fact that, after 2005, their role in the rendition of Abu Omar had created a wave of ‘negative publicity’ for the company. In this section of the court transcript, Richmor’s president describes how one of the planes which he managed, N85VM, flew to Italy, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, ‘to every place’. The purpose of such flights was to pick up ‘a bad guy’. The court clerk has corrected the misheard ‘theorists’ in the transcript to ‘terrorists’. The judge, however, was unimpressed by this circumstantial detail and agreed with Richmor’s assessment that the context of renditions was ‘irrelevant and immaterial’ to the case. Sportsflight was ordered to pay Richmor their lost earnings.
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    Edmund Clark: Cross-examination of Mahlon Richards. Richmor Aviation, Inc. vs Sportsflight Air, Inc., 2 July 2009, from the book Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition.

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    Edmund Clark, Richmor Aviation’s office at Columbia County Airport, New York, from Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition (Aperture/Magnum Foundation, 2016)
    Image Credit: Edmund Clark

    Clark: Richmor Aviation’s Office at Columbia County Airport, New York, from Negative Publicity.

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