Remember a little while ago everyone was talking about the CIA and their propensity to ‘remove’ people in different countries to ‘question’ them? Well it turns out that Italy just indicted 31 people (25 US CIA operators) regarding the abduction. The spooks call it the ‘extraordinary rendition program,’ which basically means that no matter where you are or who you are the CIA can knock in your door and abduct you. Turns out, other countries might have a problem with the CIA kidnapping their citizens right off the street with no authorizations or warrants.

Of course, nobody actually knows what happens to you once you’ve been ‘extraordinarily renditioned’ but we can all assume it involves a prison that nobody’s ever heard of and less than amiable guards in a country where nobody asks questions.

In Moustafa Hassan Nasr’s case, he was picked up in an unmarked CIA van and eventually transferred to an Egyptian prison where he was tortured for FOUR YEARS. The kicker is that no charges were ever filed against him and he was released a little over a year ago. I’d sue the entire U.S. government (how futile). I remember the Administration fighting these allegations pretty hard once the NY Times broke the story…then when they admitted to it, it was more of a pissed off ‘I cant believe you told americans what we’re doing.’

sheesh.