I love our Country, The consitution and principles that ran it. What happened to the philosophy that we had an obligation to operate above board, to be an example to the rest of the civilized world? I believe it's a shame the C.I.A. seems to be running our foreign policy, with domestic and international laws ignored. I'm beginning to think our national motto should be changed to "it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission".
It doesn't matter that other nations or groups break the laws. That's what used to differentiate us from them. When we break the law, we bring ourselves down to their level, which some may say is necessary to counter their efforts, but have all options been ignored?
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Was Abu Omar just an innocent caught up in the Bush administration's sinister kidnap-and-torture campaign? No, his record suggests he was a potentially dangerous jihadist caught up in the kidnap-and-torture campaign. But another branch of the Italian police was planning to arrest him the legal way before he was disappeared. Ironically, he might still be in jail if that had happened.
And, oh yes, what were the names of all those CIA personnel involved with the snatch? You'll notice we haven't published them. Unlike the members of the Bush administration who floated the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson when it suited their offensive (in every sense) political tactics, we don't release the identities of America's spooks in the field. The law, after all, is the law.
So the Abu Omar investigation as it stands now leaves us with a murky conclusion: a kind of justice done, while the cause of justice is poorly served. I guess if you want a neat ending that ties everything together, you've got to go to the movies.
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