If the US refuses to extradite Knox, fugitives from justice here should get their asses to Italy.

[Savannahmann]

84. They Have

I know this is hard for you to understand. But they have. Which is why there is an Interpol warrant out for him.

http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/20/italy-continue-efforts-toward-justice-cia-abuses

I keep giving you more links, and you keep pretending that the truth is somehow just outside the realm of understanding. Robert Lady and 23 others were tried, and convicted. A warrant has been issued for the return of Robert Lady to Italy. The United States is ignoring the Warrant, and the Extradition, and taking action to make sure that nobody else holds him.

Italy issued an international arrest warrant for Lady in December 2012, due to the length of his sentence. Though sentenced to nine years, Lady would only serve six years in prison due to automatic reductions under Italian sentencing guidelines.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/29/u_s_chased_down_snowden_but_let_cia_operative_robert_seldon_lady_disappear_partner/

Recently, Lady proved a one-day wonder. After years in absentia — poof! — he reappeared out of nowhere on the border between Panama and Costa Rica, and made the news when Panamanian officials took him into custody on an Interpol warrant. The CIA’s station chief in Milan back in 2003, he had achieved brief notoriety for overseeing a la dolce vita version of extraordinary rendition as part of Washington’s Global War on Terror. His colleagues kidnapped Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, a radical Muslim cleric and terror suspect, off the streets of Milan, and rendered him via U.S. airbases in Italy and Germany to the torture chambers of Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt. Lady evidently rode shotgun on that transfer.

His Agency associates proved to be the crew that couldn’t spook straight. They left behind such a traceable trail of five-star-hotel and restaurant bills, charges on false credit cards, and unencrypted cell phone calls that the Italian government tracked them down, identified them, and charged 23 of them, Lady included, with kidnapping.

Lady fled Italy, leaving behind a multimillion-dollar villa near Turin meant for his retirement. (It was later confiscated and sold to make restitution payments to Nasr.) Convicted in absentia in 2009, Lady received a nine-year sentence (later reduced to six). He had by then essentially vanished after admitting to an Italian newspaper, “Of course it was an illegal operation. But that’s our job. We’re at war against terrorism.”

I don't know how many more links you'll need before you come to the conclusion, inescapable conclusion, that the United States is hiding this guy and refusing to turn him over. I've got no idea how much more you need before you come to that realization. Extradition isn't something that we would never ignore under any circumstances which makes our outrage at Russia holding onto Snowden and refusing to turn him over that much more hollow.

But keep on pretending that the truth is there is some sort of technicality, and that's why we haven't turned Lady over. And why we spirited him out of Panama, and why we refuse to even discuss the issue. Because much like your apparent attitude, if you ignore the evidence long enough, perhaps it will go away.