Ex-CIA Agent Loses Appeal Against Extradition in Kidnapping Case
A former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency officer living in Portugal lost her final appeal there to avoid going to prison in Italy for her part in a U.S. program that involved kidnapping suspected terrorists and flying them to other countries for interrogation.
Sabrina de Sousa was one of 26 Americans convicted in absentia by Italian courts for the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam on a Milan street, an operation ordered by President George W. Bush’s administration. Sentenced to four years in prison, she is believed to be the first American to face imminent punishment for the practice known as extraordinary rendition.
38 convicted felons. 4 months. A second chance at life.#HBODocs and exec producer Dwayne Johnson present #RockAndAHardPlace 3/27. @TheRock pic.twitter.com/26xUNuk8GF
— HBO Documentaries (@HBODocs) February 21, 2017
Ex-CIA spy freed in Portugal, avoids extradition over kidnapping
A former CIA officer convicted of involvement in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Italy was released by authorities in Lisbon, Portugal on Wednesday after winning a last-minute reprieve from extradition.
Sabrina de Sousa, a dual U.S.-Portuguese citizen, was waiting at Lisbon airport to be flown to Italy early on Wednesday when word came she was to be released, after Italy's president granted her a partial pardon.
"I'm happy with how this worked out here after two years of having this troubling my mind," a smiling de Sousa told reporters as she left the Judiciary Police headquarters. "But this is not over yet, as I still have the process in Italy, and we have to see how it goes."
In a later telephone interview with Reuters, de Sousa said her Italian lawyer had applied for her to perform three years of community service in Italy as an alternative to jail.
cars posted:The Rock Says... learn about internal colonialism
38 convicted felons. 4 months. A second chance at life.#HBODocs and exec producer Dwayne Johnson present #RockAndAHardPlace 3/27. @TheRock pic.twitter.com/26xUNuk8GF
— HBO Documentaries (@HBODocs) February 21, 2017
whenever i see something like this or 'beyond scared straight' which clearly depict the torture of children on the basis of race and class i think about that UN kangaroo court thing about DPRK forced labor camps and i very quietly and softly snort and shake my head
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/africa/somali-piracy-attack-spike/index.html
CNN has learned that the United Nations and the United States are investigating at least two pirate kingpins for providing material support to terror groups.
Petrol posted:destined to be 2017's finest empire thread but abandoned because it's all just too depressing
an empire thread in decline
it might be interesting to see if there's any pattern with how frequently these Venezuela Episodes in US reporting appear relative to what's actually occurring in the country in between.
now, this might only really be useful in the lead-up to an election cycle, but it's something i can't help but notice as a kind of coincidental, through-the-looking-glass sort of observation--i certainly don't think that this could be coordinated--but it's interesting how there appears to be a pattern in the coverage of these events that emerges just by the nature of their distribution to the electorate
*carefully screened so as to not correspond to any of the realities on the ground, same for the others
animedad posted:that one dude that wEnt crazy proving Tom is CIA was 100% correct. mods?
I offer that one dude total amnesty to the fullest extent of the natural law, and I hope they enjoy amnesty and whatever it might entail
cars posted:lmao
maybe someday your wiki edit will end up supporting a CIA study
c_man posted:cars posted:lmao
maybe someday your wiki edit will end up supporting a CIA study
i was just thinking of the time i troll edited wikipedia and a legit publisher printed it in a book and then i cited the book as the reference for the edit. it's still there so time to put in for a promotion with the agency
FULL COMMUNISM DISCORD
cars posted:i was just thinking of the time i troll edited wikipedia and a legit publisher printed it in a book and then i cited the book as the reference for the edit. it's still there so time to put in for a promotion with the agency
what was the page? (pm if secret)
cars posted:c_man posted:cars posted:lmao
maybe someday your wiki edit will end up supporting a CIA study
i was just thinking of the time i troll edited wikipedia and a legit publisher printed it in a book and then i cited the book as the reference for the edit. it's still there so time to put in for a promotion with the agency
same but an official virgin music webpage for grace jones
cars posted:c_man posted:
cars posted:
lmao
maybe someday your wiki edit will end up supporting a CIA study
i was just thinking of the time i troll edited wikipedia and a legit publisher printed it in a book and then i cited the book as the reference for the edit. it's still there so time to put in for a promotion with the agency
nice. ii once read a post identical to this on the byob offsite forum except it was about editing a fake lays flavor onto the lays wikipedia , buzzfeed writing an article about it, then citing the article to protect the fake flavor from deletion on the wiki.
elias posted:cars posted:c_man posted:
cars posted:
lmao
maybe someday your wiki edit will end up supporting a CIA study
i was just thinking of the time i troll edited wikipedia and a legit publisher printed it in a book and then i cited the book as the reference for the edit. it's still there so time to put in for a promotion with the agency
nice. ii once read a post identical to this on the byob offsite forum except it was about editing a fake lays flavor onto the lays wikipedia , buzzfeed writing an article about it, then citing the article to protect the fake flavor from deletion on the wiki.
JIM MIKLASZEWSKI: For months after the Iraq war began, many — not just in the Pentagon but in the administration — failed to recognize that while the invasion was a success, the steps that the U.S. had taken immediately following the invasion were crumbling before their eyes: the de-Baathification, the disarming and dissolution of the entire military.
ERROL MORRIS: Do you think that Rumsfeld was in denial? That even he couldn’t see his way to the facts through the layers of fantasy that he constructed in promoting the Iraq war?
JIM MIKLASZEWSKI: Well, not just him but the entire building was in denial. Doug Feith — don’t get me started on Doug Feith — told me that they had a Marshall Plan all set to go in terms of rebuilding Iraq. And he pointed to this stack of huge three-ringed binders, all of them black. There must have been about 10 of them stacked up on top of a cabinet. And I asked to see them, and he said, “No, you can’t. It’s classified.” And I said, “Well, O.K., I understand that, I guess.” But I raised it to somebody else within the next couple of weeks. I said, “Well, Doug Feith showed me the Marshall Plan for Iraq.” And this person laughed, and he said, “Mik, that was the Marshall Plan.” It was a copy of the original Marshall Plan, not a plan for Iraq.
elias posted:nice. ii once read a post identical to this on the byob offsite forum except it was about editing a fake lays flavor onto the lays wikipedia , buzzfeed writing an article about it, then citing the article to protect the fake flavor from deletion on the wiki.
my best one was debunked by the article's subject in a major news outlet last year in an interview that asked the person directly to confirm or deny whether it was true, and it's also still there
From a Dutch broadcasting project 2008-2015.
— Briganvenutius (@JordanLM__) September 13, 2017
Ivory Coast cocoa farmers try Chocolate for the first time, 2014. pic.twitter.com/h7FCoEdPDE
cars posted:The Rock Says... learn about internal colonialism
internal colonialism is such a good phrase and i'm going to use it w/o ur credit 
