serious embarrassment to the CIA's official record on rendition flights ... [flew detainees off to possible torture] UK territory twice as a stopover

CIA Corrects Itself; U.K. Territory Was Used in Rendition | By STEPHEN GREY and MADDY SAUER | Feb. 21, 2008

U.K. Territory Twice Used As a Stopover Point for Planes Transporting Detainees

In a serious embarrassment to the CIA's official record on rendition flights, the agency acknowledged today that a U.K. territory was twice used as a stopover point for planes transporting terror detainees, in contradiction to previous statements that the U.K. was not involved. ...