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In reply to the discussion: A court case so secret, US Govt says it can't go on [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)32. But apparently the CIA didn't mind the information getting out.
The name and shame trick, but how they got the names to shame, that's another story all together.
Hey boys and girls. Let's take a walk down memory lane. Let's remind ourselves of the other guy who did just what the black suited puppet masters wanted him to do. I present Robert Seldon Lady.
On November 4, 2009, Italian Judge Oscar Magi convicted Lady, along with 22 other accused CIA employees, of kidnapping, handing down an eight-year sentence. The New York Times called this decision a "land mark ruling" and an "enormous symbolic victory" for Italian prosecutors because it "was the first ever to contest the United States practice of rendition, in which terrorism suspects are captured in one country and taken for questioning in another, presumably one more open to coercive interrogation techniques."
On July 18, 2013, according to the Italian Justice Ministry, Lady was arrested in Panama. He was released the next day.
On July 18, 2013, according to the Italian Justice Ministry, Lady was arrested in Panama. He was released the next day.
So the guy is tried in absentia, convicted, and has a INTERPOL warrant out for him, but we won't let him go to Prison, because he's a good CIA guy. Or something.
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I'm concerned about an ugly turn of events by our increasingly secretive govt
riderinthestorm
Mar 2015
#17
Yes I did. And it's obviously NOT a bullshit claim since the case can't be tried
riderinthestorm
Mar 2015
#23
This tactic of smearing everyone who challenges the deep state is getting stale
riderinthestorm
Mar 2015
#13
An attorney who doesn't feel sorry for some billionaire Plaintiff, whose money
msanthrope
Mar 2015
#22