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Benjamin Fischer, a former CIA chief historian, said he couldn’t think of another case like De Sousa’s in agency history. “It’s unprecedented,” he said.
Tried in absentia for the CIA abduction, and rendition of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar an Egyptian cleric.
But last spring, De Sousa moved to Portugal to be near relatives. In the fall, she was detained by local authorities at the Lisbon airport on a European arrest warrant.
This week, Portugal’s highest court upheld the country’s lower courts’ rulings, declared that they did not violate the constitution, and said De Sousa should be sent to Italy as soon as May 4. Portugal’s Constitutional Court also reiterated a condition set by the lower courts — and guaranteed by Italy in De Sousa’s European arrest warrant — that once she arrives in Italy, she must be given another trial or a chance to appeal with new evidence, and the ability to call Italian and U.S. witnesses, because she had been tried in absentia.
But De Sousa, who has adamantly asserted that she played no role in Abu Omar’s kidnapping, said she is not sure that Italy won’t simply throw her in prison once she lands there.
Her Portuguese attorney, Manuel Magalhaes e Silva, said he has gotten word that Italian authorities view this condition “in the abstract” and might wind up forcing De Sousa to complete her four-year prison term.
“It’s kind of a surreal situation,” De Sousa said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I’ve spent years wanting to counter the charges against me. Right now, I want to know what happens, step by step, in Italy.”
My only question is...why didn't she ?
Could it be because the CIA feels itself above the law...anybody's law ?
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