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notworthabean · Mar 1, 2007, 12:47 am

FT.com / US / CIA secret prisons - US â€˜will not hand over CIA agents to Italyâ€™

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Washington would refuse any demand by Rome to give up alleged Central Intelligence Agency operatives to face criminal trial on charges that the agency abducted terror suspects, a leading US official said.

John Bellinger, legal adviser to the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, said in Brussels: “We have not gotten that extradition request from Italy. If we got an extradition request from Italy, we would not extradite US officials to Italy.”

An Italian judge last month ordered 25 alleged CIA operatives and the former head of Italy’s military intelligence service to go on trial on charges of kidnapping an Egyptian iman in Milan in 2003 and taking him to Egypt for interrogation.

Mr Bellinger, who was in Brussels to meet European legal advisers, is the first senior US official to say publicly that CIA agents would not be sent for trial abroad.

who woulda guessed....

Technosoul · Mar 1, 2007, 01:42 am

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Quote by: notworthabean

FT.com / US / CIA secret prisons - US â€˜will not hand over CIA agents to Italyâ€™

who woulda guessed....

They could effect "arrest warrents" for individuals that a trial would indicate were involved and then the agents could no longer journey around the globe for CIA purposes or on vacations without chancing getting arrested, in any country that would honor the warrents issued by Italy's Justice System.

I am not sure, but Italy might already be holding a couple of agents in jails awaiting the trial. The news media has not made that part clear yet.

notworthabean · Mar 1, 2007, 01:50 am

or they could just do so under fake names

Gods_Mercenary · Mar 1, 2007, 04:15 pm

I doubt the CIA would have much of a problem concealing its agent's identities.

PatrickHenry · Mar 3, 2007, 05:18 am

I guess that Italy couldn't snatch a guy and try him for snatching people...

Gods_Mercenary · Mar 3, 2007, 09:03 am

Yah, that'd be kinda odd, considering both actions were sanctioned by governments and for basically the same crime.

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Gods_Mercenary Altruism Assassin Location: Massachusetts Posts: 4,871	I doubt the CIA would have much of a problem concealing its agent's identities. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein

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PatrickHenry 9/11: Inside Job Location: Hawai'i, Big Island Posts: 10,437	I guess that Italy couldn't snatch a guy and try him for snatching people... "Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense." -- John Adams

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Gods_Mercenary Altruism Assassin Location: Massachusetts Posts: 4,871	Yah, that'd be kinda odd, considering both actions were sanctioned by governments and for basically the same crime. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein

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notworthabean libertarian neocon Location: north east Posts: 630	or they could just do so under fake names