A convicted CIA agent involved with torture & kidnapping walks free

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where is your outrage justice league members?

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1. The usual crowd condemns Snowden & Manning and ignores torture crimes

Lessons from Edward Snowden and Robert Seldon Lady

—By Tom Engelhardt
| Mon Jul. 29, 2013 5:51 PM PDT

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.

~Snip~

Lady fled Italy, leaving behind a multimillion-dollar villa near Turin meant for his retirement. (It was later confiscated and sold to make restitution payments to Nasr.) Convicted in absentia in 2009, Lady received a nine-year sentence (later reduced to six). He had by then essentially vanished after admitting to an Italian newspaper, "Of course it was an illegal operation. But that's our job. We're at war against terrorism."

Last week, the Panamanians picked him up. It was the real world equivalent of a magician's trick. He was nowhere, then suddenly in custody and in the news, and then—poof again!—he wasn't. Just 24 hours after the retired CIA official found himself under lock and key, he was flown out of Panama, evidently under the protection of Washington, and in mid-air, heading back to the United States, vanished a second time.

State Department spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters on July 19th, "It's my understanding that he is in fact either en route or back in the United States." So there he was, possibly in mid-air heading for the homeland and, as far as we know, as far as reporting goes, nothing more. Consider it the CIA version of a miracle. Instead of landing, he just evaporated.

And that was that. Not another news story here in the US; no further information from government spokespeople on what happened to him, or why the administration decided to extricate him from Panama and protect him from Italian justice. Nor, as far as I can tell, were there any further questions from the media. When TomDispatch inquired of the State Department, all it got was this bit of stonewallese: "We understand that a U.S citizen was detained by Panamanian authorities, and that Panamanian immigration officials expelled him from Panama on July 19. Panama's actions are consistent with its rights to determine whether to admit or expel non-citizens from its territory."...

Full article:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/edward-snowden-robert-seldon-lady

[frylock]

2. the law and order crowd are perfectly willing to overlook this because of..

you know ummmm... terror or something.

[think]

3. "or something" would be my guess....

[Hydra]

4. The law and order crowd are highly selective

Most laws don't matter as long as the gov't is doing it under a (D) President. The laws that do matter are the ones that can be used to discredit someone who is questioning the system under said (D) President.

[MelungeonWoman]

5. Lady had become a liability.

He royally screwed up the "rendition", then was set up in Panama and blew that too. I suspect he was deplaned somewhere south of Jamaica. Online assets and their mockingbirds probably have been instructed to relegate Lady threads to forum slide.

/woo

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Whistle blowers go to prison. Murderers, kidnappers, torturers, are protected by the regime.

[woo me with science]

7. K&R