So I've been following this story about the arrest warrants issued for 13 US CIA Agents whose successful efforts to kidnap a fundamentalist Muslim priest were well documented by the Italian government.

It's hilarious.

First we have all these Diner's Club receipts for first class hotels, fine dining, and celebratory vacations after assaulting the priest, spraying a debilitating chemical in his face, then tossing the 42 year old Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan into a van where he could be beaten at a more leisurely pace later.

Then there are the bits about cell phone sniffing between this team of crack agents, the head of the CIA's office in Milan, and gps data that connect to a US Army Colonel in Avian, Italy who helped spirit Mr. Hassan away to the vacation land of Egypt where he no doubt, like many others, will undergo torture by proxy after a convenient stop-over in Germany to change planes.

Lastly we have a warrant issued for Mr. Hassan himself who was under investigation by the Italian government who suspected him of providing Islamic militants with documentation assistance for travel to northern Iraq.

From all this there seem to be a number of questions that need to be asked...

1. Aren't our CIA agents supposed to like ghosts? You never know they're there and if you do you can't prove it or something like that right? These fools were using off the shelf kit and used a mob-style tactic that was witnessed by a passerby to actually get him. These are thugs not crack Mission Impossible cliche spies that we're paying for to do highly illegal things that probably shouldn't be done in the first place.

2. Who makes the decision regarding accomodations, meals, transportation, and staffing for these jobs because they are clearly not thinking of the budget when they sign off on $500 a night hotel rooms rented, feasts, and private vacations? Beyond just the 13 agents covering this chap exactly who else is involved and where does the colonel sleep?

3. Why is it we are going into friendly nations illegally to kidnap suspects? If the Italians had been closely studying Hassan for so long wouldn't they have lot's of information the US wanted had we only asked if we could arrest this citizen of their country? Was there simply not enough evidence to justify mr Hassan's arrest or what?

4. Since the cat's out of the bag so to speak, I think we deserve to know exactly what Mr. Hassan is up to these days including what information he was able to provide that was so critical. I also believe that the Italians should have first go at him because Iraq was as much a danger to the Italians as they were to the US regarding terrorism.

5. If it turns out that Mr. Hassan was actually just beaten, maced, kidnapped, tortured, and whatever else just because the US wanted to use him as an agent...will there be any justice?

I suppose that last one is up to you.