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Former CIA officer Sabrina de Sousa was convicted in absentia in 2010 for the rendition of a cleric affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Milan in 2003. The Cleric, known as Abu Omar, was abducted from Milan and taken to Egypt where he was allegedly tortured.
The Italian government charged de Sousa and 25 other Americans – all but one CIA officers – for actions associated with the abduction, despite the fact the operation was a joint-exercise authorized by the George W. Bush administration and the Silvio Berlusconi government.
De Sousa herself did not even take part in the operation. She was actually (and phone records obtained by Italian prosecutors would corroborate) over 100 miles away at the time chaperoning a school ski trip.
She would spend the next five years in the U.S. In April 2015 de Sousa traveled to Portugal. She has roots in the country. Prior to her travel de Sousa asked the Portuguese Attorney General, Ms. Joana Marques Vidal, whether her traveling to the country would create any problems for the Portuguese government. She was assured it would not.
In fact, according to de Sousa, she and her legal team obtained an informal nulla osta, or permission from Vidal, that she would be able to travel safely to see her family.
She would spend the next several months in Portugal without incident from either the Portuguese, Italian or U.S. governments. In October 2015 she attempted to travel from Lisbon to Goa, India, to visit her mom. When she arrived at the airport she was taken into custody by Portuguese authorities on charges stemming from the Milan Rendition.
De Sousa would subsequently be told there was a high level meeting in Portugal between U.S. and Portuguese officials – likely brought under pressure from the U.S. – in September 2015, one month before her arrest. Did that meeting play a role in getting the Portuguese government to abruptly drop their assurances not to arrest and extradite de Sousa to Italy?
We have previously reported that in September 2015 the Deep State seemed to have been mobilized to bring down the then Donald Trump campaign for president. A significant portion of those plans, it would be learned, were being run from Italy. It seemed De Sousa, who was drawing attention to her case, and thus by extension those broader operations, needed to be silenced.
De Sousa’s extradition to Italy – where she was told she would be imprisoned – was derailed only by that country’s refusal to send a Russian national arrested in Rome for buying NATO secrets from a Portuguese man back to Portugal. That “swap” was a pre-requisite for de Sousa being sent to Italy.
Was Brennan intent on sending a CIA officer and a U.S. citizen to prison in a foreign country to keep SpyGate concealed? What is unprecedented is not just the failure to intercede on the officer’s behalf in legal proceedings, but the proactive measures taken to get foreign countries against even their will to imprison that officer.
About Mike Pompeo’s tweet, “1,327 days.” Pompeo has been posting messages warning against appeasing Iran. Q post 1327 gives a link to a FARS story about John Kerry meeting with PM Mohammad Zarif in April 2018. At that time, the president of the United States was Donald Trump. The recently appointed secretary of state (26 April 2018) was Mike Pompeo. His office was the only entity with the legal authority to engage in conversations with the government of Iran. John Kerry was a private citizen. Not only was his meeting with Zarif a federal crime, given the seriousness of the issue, nuclear weapons, it was an act of treason.
https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/13970217000956/Iran-Cnfirms-Zarif-Kerry-Meeing-in-New-Yrk