CIA warned its operatives to stay out of Italy, according to e-mail

[struggle4progress]

BY JOHN CREWDSON
Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON - The CIA warned its operatives to stay out of Italy after learning that Italian prosecutors were preparing to seek arrest warrants in the agency's 2003 kidnapping of a radical Muslim preacher, according to an e-mail message recovered from the computer drive of the chief suspect in the case.

One CIA employee who received the e-mail later wrote to the agency's retired chief in Milan, Robert Seldon Lady, that she was "extremely relieved" to learn that Lady had managed to cross the border into Switzerland and was "in Geneva until this blew over" rather than "sitting in some Italian holding cell."

The employee, who is now living in Virginia, wrote that she had been taken aback when she "suddenly got an e-mail through work which was entitled, `Italy, don't go there.'" Reached by telephone, the employee said she was not at liberty to discuss her e-mail to Lady, which was dated Dec. 24, 2004.
The "don't go there" message, described as "giving a short rundown regarding the Milano Magistrate's intentions," came after the first published report, in the Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera, that prosecutors were investigating the imam's abduction as a potential kidnapping and "a possible breach of national sovereignty." <snip>

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[jeff30997]

1. I wonder if she would have appreciated a trip to Syria.

[IChing]

5. I hear that the"Bridge of Sighs"is particularly interesting for agents

to view and understand the meaning of their actions in Italy.

Now where can our government criminals go these days?

CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THIER EMPLOYEES IGNORING THE CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT ACTION.

[leesa]

2. Perhaps they NEED to be arrested.

[struggle4progress]

4. Arrest would seem to be the normal reaction of law enforcement ..

.. when there's a kidnapping involved ...

[LynnTheDem]

3. Imagine if Saddam Hussein's agents kidnapped Pat Roberts.

The screeching of outrage would be heard round the world.

But hey, it's ok when America does it.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. The difference is that American soil is sacred

No one else's is.

That's why Americans act so outraged by the September 11 attacks and still express outrage at the Pearl Harbor attack. In that outrage, I always hear fury that a foreigner could so violate the proper moral order of the universe as to attack the most hallowed ground in the world -- America.

[LynnTheDem]

7. Americans = ubermenschen.

Everyone else = untermenschen. Sub-human.

Same nationalistic crap of the German people of the 1930s-1940s.

The US flags on vehicles and clothing...it's not patriotism. It's nationalism. And it's what Hitler's Germany was all about.