Former Agent Jack Rice: This Is The Price We Pay For Breaking The Law
Twenty three CIA agents are now fugitives of Italian law for kidnapping authorized by US government.
Thursday November 5, 2009 12:47 p.m.
Twenty three American citizens employed by the CIA were convicted in an Italian court of kidnapping an Islamic cleric in 2003. These 23 agents are now considered fugitives and advised not to travel outside of the US in fear of being extradited to Italy. Sabrina DeSousa, a former CIA operative admits to ABC News that the agency "broke the law" by conducting the kidnapping as part of the CIA extraordinary rendition program. She also says the US government has "betrayed and abandoned" them by not providing diplomatic immunity or cooperating with Italian authorities so as not to protect them from being charged and convicted of crimes, actions they were ordered to perform, by foreign governments.
Former CIA agent and Air America host Jack Rice joins Montel to discuss his personal conversation with a senior level Italian diplomat to get the details about the kidnapping and extraordinary rendition program. Who's to blame for their conviction, aside from George Bush of course? Rice says Obama.
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This is one reason why those that gave the orders need to be prosecuted. . Otherwise, other law-abiding nations will be looking for scapegoats.
It's called the Abuse of Power. Just because the Americans are "Americans" they think that they are the allmightly and that they have the power to take anyone that they think is a threat to them and there country.
Abu Ghraib! exactly; they also abused their power to hurt people. They think that they have the great power to hurt these people when over 90 percent were INOCENT.
Italy has the total complete power to prosecute these 23 men. In every country ITS A BAD THING to kidnapp someone. Its only common sense.
The Italian diplomant is right. If a crime has been commited, it must be prosecuted. It doesn't matter were it happend, who did it, or when.
Put them in boxes and take them to Gitmo. Put them in a cage.
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