By Mark John, Reuters
The United States will reject any request by Italy to extradite CIA agents for the first criminal trial over controversial U.S. “renditions” of terror suspects, a U.S. government lawyer said on Wednesday.A Milan judge earlier this month ordered 26 Americans, most of them thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial with Italian spies for kidnapping a Muslim cleric and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.We’ve not got an extradition request from Italy … If we got an extradition request from Italy, we would not extradite U.S. officials to Italy,” State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger told a news briefing.