CIA agents guilty of Kidnapping
This is a story that hasn’t received anywhere near as much attention as it should have:
An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans – all but one of them CIA agents – and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric.
BBC Article for a good medium length summary.
The CIA personnel were involved in the controversial, and to many of us, outrageous, extraordinary rendition program. The trial took place in Milan, Italy.
There is a line of thought that says this trial is purely symbolic and has no real relevance to US foreign policy (what used to be referred to as the Global War on Terror under Cheney/Bush). This is garbage, the real reasons that this hasn’t become bigger news are the residual fear that the so called liberal media has for anything with the Cheny/Bush brand on it combined with a lack of video of a line of spooks in Orange jump suits and shackles – no images = no story.
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Categories: politics Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, extraordinary rendition, Foreign policy of the United States, Geneva Convention, Italy, Milan