American Held in Pakistan Worked With C.I.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/world/asia/22pakistan.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine 
Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:35 AM
Subject: re: American Held in Pakistan Worked With C.I.A.
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To the Editor:

    When the U.S. and Pakistan established diplomatic relations, we exchanged extraterritoriality; we each allowed that the other's laws and not ours had force on the grounds of their embassies. "Diplomatic Immunity" extends this privilege to the persons of our diplomats and their staffs. In the case of Raymond A. Davis, the U.S. advances this claim in bad faith.  In case after case in recent years, we have seen that agents of the U.S. CIA are held neither to the laws of the host country nor to our laws, but to no law at all.  Pakistan may bend to American arm twisting as the Germans did in the torture of Khaled al-Masri or as the Italians did in the killing of Giuliana Sgrena's escort. But they should not try to delude anyone that this is in the service of Justice.

Barry Levine