Posted on 03/04/2017 7:54:17 AM PST by Helicondelta
Former CIA case officer Sabrina De Sousa thanked the Trump administration for intervening to save her from extradition to Italy and imprisonment in a statement on Friday.
“I want to extend my deepest appreciation to the Trump administration for all their efforts on my behalf. Without their support I would be spending tonight in an Italian prison,” said De Sousa, in a statement quoted by Fox News.
“The Obama administration and former CIA Director John Brennan abandoned De Sousa the last seven years, and in six weeks, the Trump team made her freedom possible,” Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) told Fox News.
De Sousa, 61, was working undercover for the CIA in Italy when Egyptian cleric Osama Mustapha Hassan Nasr, a.k.a. Abu Omar, was plucked from the streets and returned to Egypt in an “extraordinary rendition” operation. He was believed to have been involved in a plan to bomb a bus full of school children in Milan.
One might argue that De Sousa bears no responsibility for the Egyptian government’s conduct in the case, but the maddening truth of the case is that she did not even have anything to do with his rendition. She has documentary evidence in the form of phone records that she was over a hundred miles away when the operation occurred. She and 25 other Americans, mostly CIA employees, were convicted in absentia by an Italian court.
As Newsweek chronicles, De Sousa was en route to visit her mother in India in October 2015, having long since left the employ of the CIA, when she was detained at the Lisbon airport. To her astonishment, she ultimately found herself in a Portuguese prison awaiting extradition to Italy for what remained of a five-year prison sentence. Her mother, sadly, passed away while she was detained in Portugal.
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No habeas corpus in Italy, that’s for sure. Never mind their continued dangerous love affair with Islam.
The sad part of this story is that the new CIA chief just went and called the Italians up and noted that she (at the time) was an officer of the US embassy, and that you can’t arrest or detain an individual in performance of their duties...all you can do is kick them out of the country. President Obama and mental-midgets wasted eight years on this simple problem.
obama and his muzzie brotherhood pals wanted her in prison. They did nothing to get her out because of their pro muzzie agenda.
Abandoned state department employees? Does this give off Benghazi vibes to anyone?
What it tells me is that there are different factions within State, and the members of those factions hate and distrust one another.
What am I missing here?
It looks like a terrorist was taken off the streets and a plot to commit terror in Italy was thwarted. The Italians are mad about that??
There were probably other CIA operative abandoned by the 0bama regime but received no publicity.
The history of abandoning Americans under fire and in trouble, sometimes merely for political expediency, ran deep within the 0bama regime. They treated military and foreign service personnel as pawns whose lives were only to ensure the elites weren't inconvenienced. Just ask Hussein or Madam Hillary Benghazi.
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