DE SOUSA CASE SPURS CLOSED-DOOR CONFAB

For about an hour last week, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell met behind closed doors with U.S. Justice Department lawyers and the attorneys for Sabrina De Sousa, the former American official who was tried and convicted in absentia in Italy for her alleged role in the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric. De Sousa, who sued in Washington federal district court in 2009, wants Howell to order the government to invoke diplomatic immunity, saying the U.S. State Department should have intervened on her behalf.

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