TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. Tara McKelvey reports on a recent policy conference in Florence, Italy concerning approaches to combating terrorism; the elephant in the room, Tara writes, was the trial about to commence in Italy against 26 Americans (mainly CIA officers) involved in the alleged 2003 extraordinary rendition and abuse of a Milan-based imam named Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr. Alongside Tara's piece, we also repost Laura Rozen's May interview with the lead prosecutor in the case, Armando Spataro.
Meanwhile, yesterday we published Jon Margolis's analysis of the festival of ignorance that was the New Hampshire GOP primary debate. Today, TAPPED's own Rob Farley lays out the context and contours of the current fight between the U.S. and Russia over building a missile defense system in Europe; and Harold ruminates on the meaning -- and madness -- of Bush's comparison of the American occupation of Iraq to the American presence in South Korea. Check it all out, and share your thoughts in the article comment threads.
--The Editors
