'Tactical media' is a concept evolved together with chip larger scale of integration and wider bandwidth availability. But, as soon as it was applied to the political aesthetic of visualizing data (as in They Rule), it has proven to almost instantly trigger political awareness and discourse. The American IAA (Institute for Applied Autonomy) has always been at the forefront of tactical tool developments, in order to support movements and public freedom of expression. With seminal projects such as GraffitiWriter, TXTmob or iSee this collective of engineers/artists has spread their efforts as powerful tools for able to effectively fight the governments/corporations media oppression. IAA's new project is called Terminal Air, and rips another veil on the infamous CIA program called 'extraordinary rendition', meant to transport "suspected terrorists captured in Western nations to secret locations for interrogation and torture ". Terminal Air is a graphical interface to these so called 'rendition flights', scanning and extracting from the public airports' data log (where they stop over more often than not) the planes' codes already used for rendition's purposes. Tracking and visualizing this kind of sensible data is a supreme act of democracy and transparency, but also of hacktivist reporting. And the interface, or the visualization rules established, represents what could be defined as the implicit synthesis of a bold political statement: smartly scanning public data and digging out sense mean not only to reconstruct hidden parts of reality but also to offer them a broad public view. And accessing this data with a coherent interface, finally means to let them quickly bypass our cultural filters, heading for our naked rational and instinctive mind.