CIA agents sentenced in Italy
rendition case
First legal blow to Bush policy of seizing suspects from Europe's streets
The Independent, 5 Nov '09
In a stiff rebuke from across the Atlantic to the policies of former US president George Bush, a judge in Milan yesterday sentenced 23 American
citizens to up to eight years in prison for their part in the secret abduction of a Muslim cleric in 2003 and his rendition for questioning in Egypt,
where he was imprisoned and tortured.
All but one of the 23 US citizens were identified by prosecutors in the three-year trial as members or former members of the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA). It was the first such trial of US citizens in a foreign nation related to the now widely discredited secret rendition activities by the
CIA, part of Mr Bush's so-called "War on Terror".
These would appear to be the highest level prosecutions to date. It's no surprise that the former head of Italy's military intelligence, Nicolo
Pollari, and his deputy, were acquitted thanks to "diplomatic immunity and inadmissibility of evidence protected by secrecy laws."
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Worst agency, along side of the FSB, to garner thier ire. 
