Katie Engelhart and Jason Leopold, VICE News: Ex-CIA Officer Facing Imprisonment Says Hillary Clinton Is Partially to Blame
A former CIA counterterrorism officer who is set to be extradited to Italy where she faces a four-year prison sentence in connection with the rendition of a suspected terrorist that took place in Milan in 2003 said Hillary Clinton is partially to blame for her ordeal.
Sabrina De Sousa, two-dozen other CIA officers, and an Air Force colonel were convicted in absentia in 2009 in Italy on kidnapping and other charges in connection with the abduction of Osama Mustapha Hassan Nasr, better known as Abu Omar, a radical Egyptian cleric whose fiery anti-American speeches in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 attracted the attention of the CIA. It was the first and only prosecution and conviction involving Americans connected to the CIA's highly controversial rendition, detention, and interrogation program and the fallout has ensnared two administrations.
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WNU Editor: This is one very unhappy CIA agent who feels betrayed by her own government. If she does go to jail .... which looks like the case right now .... she will be the first CIA officer to go to jail for this rendition program, and she will also be the first U.S. diplomat to go to jail for this program .... a program that was authorised by a U.S. President and supported by Congress.
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She should have played it smart, and stayed home in the US. The US has never allowed the extradition of one of their own war criminals from US soil.
Two words, Plausible deniability.
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