That's what you do for false-flagging friends, isn't it?
"Key evidence thrown out in CIA case" by Associated Press | March 12, 2009
ROME - Italy's highest court yesterday dealt a potentially fatal blow to the trial of 26 Americans accused of involvement in the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect.
The Constitutional Court sided with the Italian government in saying that prosecutors used classified information to build the case and threw out some key evidence on which the indictments were based. Though the judges did not formally throw out the indictments, lawyers said the ruling would at least set the case back.
State lawyer Massimo Giannuzzi said prosecutors would have to base new indictments on the remaining evidence or reopen the investigation altogether....
The American suspects - all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents - were accused along with seven Italian agents of kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003, in an "extraordinary rendition" operation coordinated by the CIA and Italy's SISMI military intelligence....
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