for the miami herald. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. you have written about the role of stand your ground in the overall trayvon martin/george zimmerman case. you ve also written that regardless of the outrage and all the pressure, nobody should expect this law to change. are you at all surprised to hear the governor at least wants to talk to the protesters in his office about it tonight? no. i think they made it quite clear they re going to stay there for quite some time, so if they stay in his office and they increase in numbers, eventually he s going to have to address them. in 2006, a similar group, the kind of the forerunners of this group held a sit-in when george bush was a governor, involving the death of a young man named martin lee anderson. they stayed and stayed and jeb bush finally met with some of the folks and they went away. rick scott has gotten the message. in thinking about the power of the nra, when this initially passed, it was not at all a
third country, unrelated country, for torture, whatever. when the prosecutor named the local cia station chief in that case the chief claimed diplomatic immunity, but the judge didn t by buy it. by that time, the man had retired, and the judge said for a crime as serious as kidnapping, even an active diplomatic employee wouldn t get immunity. well, two years later, an arrest warrant was issued for him and 20 other people for kidnapping and seized without a warrant and taking the person to another country, also known as one to employ torture. but by the time the case had happened, they all had fled italy, including the former cia station chief guy. the judge went ahead with the trial anyway. that june in trial he read out
case the chief claimed diplomatic immunity, but the judge didn t by buy it. by that time, the man had retired, and the judge said for a crime as serious as kidnapping, even an active diplomatic employee wouldn t get immunity. well, two years later, an arrest warrant was issued for him and 20 other people for kidnapping and seized without a warrant and taking the person to another country, also known as one to employ torture. but by the time the case had happened, they all had fled italy, including the former cia station chief guy. the judge went ahead with the trial anyway. that june in trial he read out loud the name of all 26 americans in the case, listing them all. fugitive, fugitive, fugitive, but while the trial was carried out in absentia, the station man became a wanted man, this is the
all right. it was just before noon in malan, italy. a muslim cleric known as abu a muslim cleric headed to the mosque for noon prayers. and out of nowhere, a policeman demanded in italian, show me your passport. the cleric handed over his passport and then things got weird. witnesses say somebody inside a nearby white van flung open the door, put the man in the van and later drove off. we later learned the man was taken to a u.s. base, then to germany, then to cairo where he said he was horribly tortured at the time. but at the time he was taken in italy, seemed like he was just kidnapped, just disappeared. and italy was very unhappy about it.