John H. Tucker: Judge's Failure to Convict Intelligence Agents Is a Blow to Italy's Justice System
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
When a Milan judge stated yesterday that Italy's secret-service agency was perhaps complicit in the 2003 abduction and rendition of an Egyptian cleric, it confirmed the long-held suspicions of many Italians. Judge Oscar Magi's decision last November to dismiss the kidnapping cases against two of the country's top intelligence officers infuriated local human rights advocates, who claimed...