Top Italian telecom security official involved in Abu Omar rendition case commits suicide in Naples. Adamo Bove's expertise was mobile telecom surveillance. "According to testimony by Bove's ex-colleagues in Milan, it was Adamo Bove who helped the Milan magistrates identify and reconstruct the mobile phone traffic during the kidnapping of Abu Omar in Milan on February 17, 2003. It was this crucial investigative work that led to arrest warrants for 26 American agents and many of their Italian accomplices." More. Corriere's Guido Olimpio notes that Bove's Greek telecom security official counterpart also was found dead recently, in a case that was covered by the WSJ and the Observer. More here. These cases are about not just domestic surveillance, but the intersection of Washington's war on terror with secret factions inside companies and countries involved with domestic surveillance, and secrecy, it would seem, is at a premium.

Posted by Laura at July 24, 2006 07:09 AM