CIA plane files nothing more than press clippings: Ahern

TWO Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) files on the suspected use of Shannon by US torture flights amounted to nothing more than press clippings, Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said yesterday.

As Sinn Féin handed in a further book of evidence relating to CIA extraordinary renditions through Shannon to the gardaí yesterday, Mr Ahern said any cases investigated by gardaí had proved groundless.

“As regards the two cases that were referred to the DPP, it is quite clear that he said there was a lack of sufficient evidence.