Italy Convicts CIA In Rendition Case

November 5. 2009

Prosecutor Armando Spataro

The country of Italy, via its courts, has convicted the United States' C.I.A. and two locals, for renditioning a man from their shores. The case was prosecuted by Armando Spataro and presided over by a local judge.

The Judiciary Report is in agreement with this ruling, as renditioning and torturing individuals for information is egregious, illegal, inhumane and disgusting.

The disturbing aspect of these renditions is in many cases, it was later found, the C.I.A. nabbed the wrong person or an innocent individual.

Just imagine, you are an innocent citizen in America or any other country of the world and the C.I.A. kidnaps and tortures you for information you do not have, as they've made a mistake. Well, they did so many times and the victims deserve substantial compensation.

President Obama must choose if the renditions George W. Bush so frequently engaged in, will continue as apart of U.S. policy

The Judiciary Report refuses to submit that this misconduct is necessary to maintain national security in any nation. All nations engaging in this behavior must discontinue this malfeasance, as it violates international charters and domestic law in most civilized nations.

Catch criminals via the appropriate channels available under the law. It should also be noted, many experts agree, torture does not produce effective results, as compared to other civil methods of interrogation.

President Obama needs to set some standards and not follow in former President George W. Bush's shoes, as many innocent people were deemed acceptable collateral damage in a practice that is patently sick.

Italian judge convicts 23 in CIA kidnap case

MILAN – An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday 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.

Human rights groups hailed the decision and pressed President Barack Obama to repudiate the Bush administration's practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to third countries where torture was permitted. The American Civil Liberties Union said the verdicts were the first convictions stemming from the rendition program.

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.

The Americans, who were tried in absentia, now cannot travel to Europe without risking arrest as long as the verdicts remains in place.

One of those convicted, former Milan consular official Sabrina De Sousa, accused Congress of turning a blind eye to the entire matter.

"No one has investigated the fact that the U.S. government allegedly conducted a rendition of an individual who now walks free and the operation of which was so bungled," she said, speaking through her lawyer Mark Zaid... 

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