1. Last September,I gave evidence as a witness of fact in the Julian #Assange #ExtraditionHearing, and I reconstructed, among other things, how the US #Cables allow to reveal what happened behind the scene in the #extraordinaryRendition of the Milan cleric, #AbuOmar
2. the US diplomacy #cables revealed by #WikiLeaks allow to expose how the US put pressure on Italian politicians,both conservative and progressive,to grant #impunity to 26 US nationals, almost all of them, #CIA agents involved in the #extraordinaryRendition of #AbuOmar
3. we Italian journalists could guess such pressures by the US on our politics, however, without #WikiLeaks' cables, we would have never ever been able to get evidence. It was amazing when I got access to the #WikiLeaks cables and found such evidence: a journalist's dream
4. .@Williamrt wrote an excellent piece on my statement at the Julian #Assange #extraditionHearing in which he tells how #WikiLeaks cables allowed me to reconstruct US pressures on Italian politicians to grant #impunity to #CIA [ARCHIVE]: computerweekly.com/news/252490046…
5. today,we learn that the Italian #IntelligenceServices are considering to reinstate one of the most senior Italian intelligence officials involved in the #extraordinaryRendition of #AbuOmar: #MarcoMancini
6. you can read about this senior Italian intelligence official, #MarcoMancini, in this article by @ggreenwald: he was sentenced to 9 years, BUT he was shielded by #StateSecrecy so at the end this sentence was ruled invalid [ARCHIVE]: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
7. this happens in the same weeks as the #ItalianPolice promotes 2 Italian police officers though they had been convicted for serious crimes related to the infamous #G8Genoa [ARCHIVE] theguardian.com/world/2008/jul…
8. This gives you a measure of the culture of #impunity inside the Italian #SecretServices and #LawEnforcement: they can make a person disappear in the middle of the day in the center of Milan as in #Pinochet's Chile, and they won't go to prison and will get promoted
9 whenever I look at the #Italian #SecretServices and #LawEnforcement, this culture of impunity scares the hell out of me. The only thing which made me hopeful: when working on the #Stratfor emails revealed by #WikiLeaks, I found an amazing email about the #AbuOmar case
10. #Stratfor is a US private intelligence firm, @FreeJeremyNet has already spent 7 years in prison for his alleged role in the hacking of #Stratfor, #WikiLeaks revealed those emails, I worked on them for months and found an email about the #AbuOmar case
11. in that email, the #Stratfor spooks admired the Italian prosecutor #ArmandoSpataro, who nailed the #CIA agents involved in the #AbuOmar #extraordinary rendition: "man is a legitimate legend". No such nice words about the Italian politicians who granted #impunity to #CIA
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