Given the heated public debate over the rendition program, the article's detailed look at the C.I.A. air operations was especially controversial.

Second, the rendition program has been a tremendous success.

European officials have been sharply critical of the C.I.A.'s rendition program.

The rendition program was well known, in great detail; what the state-secrets privilege prevented was not disclosure but accountability.

Issuing an arrest warrant is a major expansion of the legal challenge to the C.I.A.'s rendition program in Europe.

The article claims that the company has provided navigational and logistics support to the agency's extraordinary rendition program.

They transferred him among prisons in various countries as part of their extraordinary rendition program.

Mr. Arar, now 35, made a comfortable living as a software engineer before he fell into the demonic embrace of the rendition program.

However, it has now been proven that over 100 stopovers were made at Portuguese airports by aircraft involved in the rendition programme.

First, the CIA's extraordinary rendition program was secretly using Uzbekistan as a country to which to fly people to be tortured.