CIA Found Guilty of Kidnap

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EXCLUSIVE: Convicted CIA Spy Says "We Broke the Law" - ABC News

Without confirming her CIA role, deSousa said her status as a State Department diplomat should have protected her, but that the U.S. refused to invoke diplomatic immunity.

"Everything I did was approved back in Washington," she said. deSousa says she was on a ski trip on the actual day of the kidnapping.

Now there's thing-it's an established principle of international law- thanks to the Nuremberg trials-that "just following orders" is not a defence.

I did these same things under the Reagan administration," Baer told ABCNews.com "When we did a rendition, we did it in international waters. The Bush administration threw all caution to the wind."

The operation to capture Abu Omar was part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, according to U.S. intelligence officials involved in his transfer. The kidnapped cleric was held in Egypt for four years and says he was repeatedly tortured there by Egyptian interrogators.

He was never charged with a crime and ultimately set free. He remains in Alexandria, Egypt.

"He was the wrong guy," said Baer. "It was not worth putting the reputation of the United Sates on the line going after somebody like this."

Now there's a comment that should worry Americans. Habeas corpus and the right to a fair trial indeed all civil rights are not designed to protect criminals like all laws they are designed to curb the power of rulers to do what they like. People seem to forget that and think it doesn't matter so long as it's not them on the receiving end. Courts should not be under the control of their government If china or russia had been caught doing these things what would the reaction in the states be then? Would it still be it wasn't the place of the italian courts to make judgement?