Bellinger continues to cover Condi's ass

after huffing and puffing yesterday about the eu report on secret cia flights and threatening the eu with the loss of u.s. cooperation on intelligence efforts, bellinger tipped the rest of his hand...

The State Department's top lawyer said Wednesday that the United States would refuse to extradite CIA officers who face kidnapping charges in Italy, warning that European criminal prosecutions of U.S. agents were harming transatlantic counterterrorism efforts.

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"If we got an extradition request from Italy, we would not extradite U.S. officials to Italy," Bellinger told reporters in Brussels, where he was meeting with European Union officials.

Bellinger's statement was the first time that a U.S. government official has directly addressed the Italian criminal investigation, which is expected to produce the first overseas trial of CIA officers involved in a covert counterterrorism operation.

but, once again, let's not forget just whose ass he's covering... yep... his boss, who claims that extraordinary rendition kidnapping is perfectly legal...

Rendition is a vital tool in combating transnational terrorism. [...] Renditions take terrorists out of action, and save lives. In conducting such renditions, it is the policy of the United States, and I presume of any other democracies who use this procedure, to comply with its laws and comply with its treaty obligations, including those under the Convention Against Torture.

despite the insistence of others that it's certainly anything but...

"The practice of disappearing people -- keeping them in secret detention without any legal process -- is fundamentally illegal under international law," said Joanne Mariner, director of the terrorism program at Human Rights Watch in New York.

eventually, hopefully within my lifetime and preferably much sooner, condi, her boss, and the rest of the criminal gang will be brought to account...

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