U.S. won't extradite CIA agents to Italy

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http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/U_S_won_t_extradite_CIA_agents_to_Italy.html?siteSect=143&sid=7573008&cKey=1172666308000

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States will reject any request by Italy to extradite CIA agents for the first criminal trial over controversial U.S. "renditions" of terror suspects, a U.S. government lawyer said on Wednesday.

A Milan judge earlier this month ordered 26 Americans, most of them thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial with Italian spies for kidnapping a Muslim cleric and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.

"We've not got an extradition request from Italy ... If we got an extradition request from Italy, we would not extradite U.S. officials to Italy," U.S. State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger told a news briefing.

Bellinger, in Brussels for meetings with European legal advisers, did not comment on details of the case but said the United States would never hand over a suspect to another country without assurances about their treatment.

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1. No ethics. Can't trust because you are not trustworthy.

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2. "If we got an extradition request from Italy, we would not extradite..."

We either have a treaty with Italy or we do not. I have to assume we do.

[Lerkfish]

3. apparently, the US is the only one allowed to move people out of the country against their will

bastards.