ABC News - One of the 23 Americans [1] convicted today by an Italian court says the United States [2] "broke the law" in the CIA [3] kidnapping of a Muslim [4] cleric Abu Omar in Milan in 2003.
"And we are paying for the mistakes right now, whoever authorized and approved this," said former CIA officer Sabrina deSousa in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC's World News with Charles Gibson.
DeSousa says the U.S. "abandoned and betrayed" her and the others who were put on trial for the kidnapping. She was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison.
Representative Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), a member of the House Intelligence Committee told ABC News that the trial was a disaster for CIA officers like DeSousa on the frontline. Read more [5].
Links:
[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7527708&page=1
[2] http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/victims-attacks-claim-rajaratman-funded-terrorists/story?id=8893078
[3] http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/lithuania-investigating-secret-cia-prisons/story?id=8874887
[4] http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-threatens-attack-germany-weeks-elections/story?id=8630699
[5] http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-convicted-cia-spy-broke-law/story?id=8995107