Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Italy's Courage

A big event. Italy convicts 23 former CIA agents in absentia for abducting a Muslim cleric in Italy and rendering him to a black site (where he claims he was tortured). They were also all sentenced to eight years in prison.

No commentary from Greenwald or Sullivan (yet). I'm sure there will be at some point. The US State Department expressed "disappointment" in the verdict. That's about as far as they can go with Italy.

An important human rights victory today. At least there is one place in the world where basic human rights are honored.

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