Woman Charged in CIA's Italy Rendition Says U.S. 'Abandoned' Her

[babylonsister]

Woman Charged in CIA's Italy Rendition Says U.S. 'Abandoned' Her

By CQ Staff | May 15, 2009 6:35 PM



DeSousa's predicament is that she's wanted on kidnapping charges in Italy, along with two dozen other Americans connected to the CIA's "rendition" of an al Qaeda suspect from a Milan street to an Egyptian torture chamber in 2003.

Three years later, Italian authorities monitoring the missing man's home phone broke open the case, eventually filing kidnapping charges against DeSousa and the others, all but one CIA undercover operatives.

In spy-speak, it's called maintaining your cover.

DeSousa, a young-looking 53, sips her coffee. She knows the routine. She mechanically denies her alleged CIA employment and other evidence connecting her to the abduction,gathered by local police.

"I had nothing to do with the planning, and nothing to do with the kidnapping, of this guy," she says.

To the contrary, however, intelligence sources say she was part of a team conducting surveillance on the target, a Muslim preacher and al Qaeda suspect known as Abu Omar.

Italian press accounts, based on interviews with local intelligence officials who say DeSousa treated them with disdain, described her as "Sabrina the tiger, with stiletto heels and fists of steel."

more...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/05/-sabrina-desousa-is-as.html

[Cirque du So-What]

1. 'The Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions...'

because the Secretary's ass is precious and deserving of protection. The Secretary never gets his hands dirty - not so long as sadists and psychopaths are willing to follow orders involving the breaking of laws. Torture & extreme rendition are not patriotism; they're a sick perversion of it.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Knowledgeable observers......

say it's unimaginable that Washington would turn over De Sousa and other CIA defendants to Italy, if they are convicted in absentia.

I doubt that they would but she'd never get into any EU countries again if found guily. I'm also not sure what would happen if an International Interpol arrest warrant was issued against her.

[noamnety]

3. Pffft. My heart bleeds for her.

I have a huge problem with the concept of diplomatic immunity to begin with - isn't that a polite way of saying "above the law"?

To hell with any CIA employee who believes they should be able to commit any crimes they like with immunity.

[Solly Mack]

4. Hmmm

All that to get to this

"Why isn't President Obama protecting us?" she asks, not entirely rhetorically."

This

"'And why is it that Congress blows us off as well?' she adds."

and this

"And who is going to fight this war?" DeSousa adds. "That's really the principle here."


and that was the whole point of her "interview"


Strip away the rest - and tell me what those 3 talking points sound like?

BTW...did you notice how extraordinary rendition becomes just rendition now?



Course, as for the rest - She made her own bed.

[Adelante]

5. Gotta love the Italians

"Sabrina the tiger, with stiletto heels and fists of steel." :D