Ministers to face EU grilling in CIA flights probe

GOVERNMENT ministers will be among the Irish witnesses asked to attend the European Parliament’s hearing into CIA rendition flights.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell and former Army Major Edward Horgan, who wrote a report on CIA plane movements at Shannon, are on the list of people who will be asked to give evidence over the next few months.

The parliament is interested in finding out whether abductees were on any of the CIA flights that landed at Shannon.