"23 Americans convicted in Italy in CIA kidnap case" by Colleen Barry and Victor L. Simpson, Associated Press | November 5, 2009
MILAN - An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty yesterday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA’s extraordinary renditions program....
The Americans, who were tried in absentia, now cannot travel to Europe without risking arrest as long as the verdicts remain in place.... Despite the convictions capping the nearly three-year trial, several Italian and American defendants, including the two alleged masterminds of the abduction, were acquitted due to either diplomatic immunity or because classified information was stricken by Italy’s highest court....
Related: The CIA is Above the Law
A Diplomatic CIA
I'll REMEMBER THAT the next time I hear about some tourists or businessman being harassed overseas, 'kay?
The State Department is being sued by former Milan consular official Sabrina De Sousa, a former State Department employee who denies she was a CIA agent and who believes she should have been granted diplomatic immunity by US officials....
Translation: She IS CIA!!!!
Human rights groups hailed the decision and pressed President Obama to repudiate the Bush administration’s practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to countries where torture was permitted.... The Obama administration ended the CIA’s interrogation program and shuttered its secret overseas jails in January but has opted to continue the practice of extraordinary renditions.
Yeah, so the MSM says they have been shuttered, so what?
Is that what the super-secretive government said?
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the Obama administration was “is disappointed about the verdicts.’’
And I'M DISAPPOINTED in THEM!
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