A quote...."BERLIN (AP) — A group of German and American civil rights attorneys on Monday sued the German government to demand that it pursue the extradition of 13 CIA agents sought in the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen." - posted 06-09-08

A quote...."MILAN: Clutching her Italian identity card in a gloved hand, the cloaked wife of a fiery Muslim cleric Wednesday tearfully recounted publicly for the first time how her husband was kidnapped on a Milan street in 2003 and sent to Egypt to endure torture and repeated imprisonment." -- More Neo-Roman play time, provided courtesey of Egyptians.  Guess it was just vicarious thrills this time for our elites. - posted 05-19-08

A quote...."MILAN — A long-delayed trial of C.I.A. operatives and former top Italian intelligence officials moved forward here on Wednesday, as a judge ruled that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could be called to testify about the abduction of a radical Muslim cleric here in 2003." - posted 05-14-08

A quote...."MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian judge could decide on Wednesday to make Silvio Berlusconi the first head of a government to testify in criminal proceedings over secret CIA transfers of terrorism suspects. Judge Oscar Magi is expected to announce his decision on whether to call Berlusconi and other politicians when he resumes a trial at 0800 GMT against 26 Americans and seven Italians accused of carrying out a transfer or "rendition" in 2003." - posted 05-14-08

A quote...."Twenty-six CIA agents are scheduled to go on trial today for kidnapping. Unfortunately, all of them will be tried in absentia because the Bush administration, which has long claimed to be against torture, refuses to send the accused kidnappers to Italy, where the prosecution is taking place." - posted 04-17-08

A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) — A German citizen thwarted in the U.S. courts is taking his allegations of abduction and torture at the hands of the CIA to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. -- On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union petitioned the commission on behalf of Khaled el-Masri, saying the U.S. government should be called on to apologize for its treatment of el-Masri and that the CIA's anti-terrorism rendition program should be found unlawful." - posted 04-10-08

A quote...."Wed 19 Mar 2008, 11:44 GMT -- MILAN, March 19 (Reuters) - An Italian judge on Wednesday ordered the resumption of a trial against U.S. and Italian spies accused of abducting a terrorism suspect, in a blow to efforts to halt a case that Rome says violates state secrecy rules." - posted 04-10-08

A quote...."The CIA announced Monday that it will now pay the full cost of legal liability insurance for about two-thirds of the agency workforce.... One shift is already looming: A change in administrations could make it more likely lawsuits will be filed against CIA interrogators for a controversial program approved by the Bush White House — the use of harsh interrogation techniques and the secret movement of prisoners, known as extraordinary rendition." - posted 03-17-08

A quote...."Allegations that the CIA held al-Qaida suspects for interrogation at a secret prison on sovereign British territory are to be investigated by MPs, the Guardian has learned. The all-party foreign affairs committee is to examine long-standing suspicions that the agency has operated one of its so-called "black site" prisons on Diego Garcia, the British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean that is home to a large US military base." - posted 10-18-07

PG's Post - A quote....WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee joined Democrats on Friday in expressing strong concern about an unusual inquiry into the work of the Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general, John L. Helgerson, saying the review could undermine Mr. Helgerson’s role as independent watchdog." - posted 10-13-07 - this article is related to the one shown below

A quote...."WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, has ordered an unusual internal inquiry into the work of the agency’s inspector general, whose aggressive investigations of the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation programs and other matters have created resentment among agency operatives."

So nobody's supposed to watch the watchers heh?  Typical Bush crony mentality, "what we do is legal" they say, but try to find out if that's true, and it all becomes hush-hush, super top secret, covered by the US's new "states secret act" or Bush's infamous claim - used on almost everything so far - of "executive privilege."

You can always spot a cheap hoodlum in the federal bureaucracy by his thuggish and juvenile attempts at intimidation. - mpg - posted 10-11-07

A quote...."ROME (AFP) - Prosecutors in the trial of a US soldier for the shooting death of a top Italian military intelligence agent in Iraq rejected Thursday defence arguments that Rome lacks jurisdiction in the case." - posted  09-27-07

A quote...."WESTMINSTER should give the Scottish Parliament a say over rendition flights into Scottish airports carrying prisoners and interrogators, a leading human rights lawyer, Clive Stafford-Smith, said yesterday. - Speaking at the Edinburgh Book Festival before giving evidence to Kenny McAskill, the justice secretary, Mr Stafford-Smith said rendition was merely a euphemism for kidnapping." - mpg - posted 08-26-08

A quote...."This camouflaging of an illegal kidnapping as a rescue flight was no isolated incident. SPIEGEL has obtained complete lists of the flight plans of secret CIA flights in German airspace, which reveal 390 takeoffs and landings of CIA aircraft at airports in Germany between 2002 and 2006. The documents also show that mis-identifying the flights was part of a system designed to dodge compliance with complicated approval regulations." - bold/italics by website author

You see, we had it all wrong.  The US's thugs and gofers for this nation's elites are actually "rescuing" people when they snatch them off the streets, torture and kill them. Just as they’re actually bringing "freedom and democracy" to countries throughout the world (or at least the ones endowed with lots of oil) when they bomb them to smithereens.

How could we have been so mistaken....they’re actually kind and caring people after all.

Anybody else out there want to be "rescued", anybody else out there want some "freedom and democracy" anybody else out there want the US's "protection" or "help"  No?  Well if you don't avail yourselves of our elite’s gracious offer something really awful might happen to your country….our elites won't be able to "help" you.

Now wouldn't that be a terrible shame? -  mpg - posted July 11, 2007

A quote...." Berlin - A German prosecutor's request for the arrest of 10 US men suspected of forming a CIA rendition team has split the German government, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday. A parliamentary inquiry in Berlin has heard Lebanese-born German national, Khaled el-Masri, testify that he was detained in Macedonia and held in a jail in Afghanistan for several months in 2004 on suspicion of terrorism."....posted 07-07-07

A quote...."  Milan - Hours before President George W. Bush visits Italy, 26 U.S. citizens go on trial in absentia in Milan on Friday accused of carrying out one of Washington's most controversial policies in its war on terrorism.  -  The U.S. citizens, almost all believed to be CIA agents, have been charged with kidnapping a Muslim in Milan in 2003 who was on Washington's list of terrorist suspects and flying him to Egypt where he says he was tortured under interrogation."....posted 06-08-07

A quote...."Europe wants to prosecute CIA operatives who abducted terror suspects overseas. The U.S. says no way.  -   Inside an international showdown."....posted 03-03-07

A quote...."An Italian judge has ordered 26 US citizens - most of them CIA agents - to stand trial over the kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003." ....posted 02-16-07

A quote...."GENEVA (AP) - Switzerland on Wednesday followed Italy and Germany in raising the threat of criminal prosecution of CIA operatives involved in anti-terrorism operations in Europe."  -  Oh, oh. There go all those secret bank accounts you guys were using to stash your retirement funds, oh well  - mpg....posted 02-15-07

A quote...."The European parliament has approved a damning report on secret CIA flights, condemning member states which colluded in the operations."....posted 02-14-07

Title says it all......posted 02-05-07

A quote...."BERLIN — If not for the pit stops on a Mediterranean resort island, where they relaxed in four-star hotels and went to the spa for a massage, the CIA operatives who now face arrest on kidnapping charges in Germany would have remained safely in the shadows, according to German prosecutors."......posted 02-03-07

A quote...."BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA agents over their alleged kidnapping three years ago of a German citizen, authorities said Wednesday.  -  The unidentified agents are being sought on suspicion of the wrongful imprisonment of Khaled al-Masri and causing him serious bodily harm, Munich prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld told The Associated Press. He said the warrants were issued in the last few days."  -  My goodness, people in Europe are actually enforcing THE LAW ! - mpg......posted 01-31-07

To all you CIA guys who rounded up innocent victims and rendered them for torture while living the high life in five star hotels....your ass-sets can be seized throughout the entire world under international law, you won't be able to set foot in Europe or have any investments there, every victim you abused is going to hire lawyers and sue you for every penny you own.  Have a nice life guys - mpg......posted 01-29-07

To all the members of the CIA's renditions program, you might want to consider retaining some legal counsel; it's quite possible you're going to need it.......posted 01-20-07

A quote...."A Milan prosecutor is making the CIA nervous. Despite the opposition of his own government he wants to indict 26 US agents and five Italian secret agents for the kidnapping of a terror suspect. Rome and Washington would prefer that the embarrassing trial would just go away."......posted 01-12-07

A quote...."Italian prosecutors have asked a judge to order CIA agents and Italian spies to stand trial on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured."......posted 12-06-06

Good for the Irish.......posted 12-01-06