The CIA has allegedly been shuttling terror suspects to other nations for interrogations using a plane registered to a Portland, Oregon company. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, who represents the city, is not going to stand for it, as the AP's Rukmini Callimachi reports:

U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer is calling for an investigation into a Portland company that owns a sleek executive jet which has reportedly been used by the CIA to ferry alleged terrorists to countries that are believed to torture prisoners.

Bayard Foreign Marketing LLC is the registered owner of a multimillion-dollar Gulfstream V that's been spotted at airports around the world being boarded by hooded and handcuffed prisoners. Human rights groups claim the plane — which critics have nicknamed "Air CIA" and "The Guantanamo Express" — is a key piece of what they say is the U.S. government's "torture by proxy" program.

On the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday, Blumenauer called Bayard Foreign Marketing a tool used to hide the transfer of prisoners to brutal regimes.

"This took on a decidely local flavor for me as press accounts came out that a shadowy — perhaps illegal — dummy front company, Bayard Foreign Marketing LLC in my hometown of Portland, Oregon, was used to transport these people," he said.

Blumenauer said that he is "horrified that the United States would be lumped into the same categories as countries we are trying to encourage to honor human rights. Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia look to be countries where we have allowed people — or sent them — to be tortured."

Nice work, Earl.