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Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden by pjc50 on Sunday January 31, 2016 @05:29AM (#11005947)
Russia pretty much got away with murdering Litvinenko in London

Well, up until now. It was so clearly a political decision to ignore it when it happened and now that relations with Russia have deteriorated it's been investigated and the obvious conclusion reached.

The CIA could have someone with 'CIA' on their jacket shoot a UK citizen on the street in broad daylight and the UK would avoid investigating it if it was politically inconvenient to do so.

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Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden by jacquesm on Sunday January 31, 2016 @05:58AM (#11006002)
Chances are this already happened.
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Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden by sangnoir on Sunday January 31, 2016 @10:43AM (#11006707)
Wasn't a UK citizen illegally rendered, detained at Guantanamo and released after many years without being charged? I haven't heard of any enquiries/investigation s into that episode by the government across the pond.
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Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden by ryanlol on Sunday January 31, 2016 @07:17PM (#11008822)
Italy indicted 26 CIA agents including multiple station chiefs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case

Jeffrey W. Castelli, Rome station chief received a 7 year prison sentence

Robert Seldon Lady, Milan station chief received a 8 year prison sentence

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Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden by sangnoir on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:33AM (#11010363)
>> I haven't heard of any enquiries/investigation s into that episode by the government across the pond.

I'm referring to Her Majesty's government: Italy isn't the US's poodle the way the UK is, the thread was discussing the non-action of the UK government due to political inconvenience

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Re:CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden by ryanlol on Monday February 01, 2016 @04:20AM (#11010674)
>I'm referring to Her Majesty's government: Italy isn't the US's poodle the way the UK is, the thread was discussing the non-action of the UK government due to political inconvenience

I get that, but figured it would still be worth noting that other EU states have previously done this.

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