A former CIA agent who is facing extradition to Italy to serve a prison sentence for her part in the the 2003 kidnapping of a terror suspect is pleading to Donald Trump to save her from jail.

Sabrina De Sousa, 60, is scheduled to be extradited from Portugal today to serve four years in jail for her role in the Bush-era US extraordinary renditions program.

De Sousa asked the President-elect on Monday to 'stop this precedent of US diplomats [and] US military and intelligence officers being convicted by foreign courts'.

The CIA operative, who has US and Portuguese citizenship, was among 26 Americans convicted of the kidnapping of terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street on February 17, 2003.

Sabrina De Sousa, 60, is scheduled to be extradited from Portugal on Tuesday to serve jail time for her role in the Bush-era US extraordinary renditions program.

De Sousa hopes that Donald Trump will save her from extradition and asked him to 'stop this precedent of US diplomats [and] US military and intelligence officers being convicted by foreign courts'

Under the rendition program, terror suspects were kidnapped on foreign soil and transferred to centers also outside the United States, where they were interrogated and tortured.

Nasr was tried in absentia before being taken to an Egyptian prison facility where he was reportedly raped and tortured. He was ultimately released after the Egyptian government ruled his imprisonment 'unfounded'.

When asked about her sentence and Trump potentially saving her from extradition, De Sousa told Tucker Carlson Tonight: 'I'm a little bit optimistic . . . One of the things that the president-elect can do is to prevent US intelligence officers from being convicted by foreign courts.'

Nasr was tried in absentia before being taken to an Egyptian prison facility where he was reportedly raped and tortured. He was released after the Egyptian government ruled his imprisonment 'unfounded'

De Sousa claims that the Obama Administration has not been helpful during her fight against extradition.

'The most they've done... the US Embassy in Portugal reached out to me to process me for this extradition,' De Sousa told Carlson. 'You know, make sure my travel documents are up to date and sign the privacy waiver... the notion itself is a little bit surreal.'

De Sousa claims she was skiing with her son in Northern Italy when Nasr was kidnapped.

She says she only played a small role in the operation at the beginning and is now being a used as a 'scapegoat'.

'This was an activity that as sanctioned all the way up to the National Security Council,' De Sousa said of the kidnapping.

'We are being convicted for decisions made for which we had no input at all,' she added. 'Nobody wants to look any higher, and this is the best way to deflect attention from anyone else.'

The rendition program was a controversial part of the anti-terrorism strategy of the US administration following the attacks.

Some 54 countries, including Italy, participated in the program, according to a 2013 report by The Open Society Justice Foundation.

De Sousa said that she hopes that Trump's administration will take action, adding that she believes that the Obama Administration did not help her

The CIA operative, who has US and Portuguese citizenship, was among 26 Americans convicted of the kidnapping of terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street on February 17, 2003

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A 2007 resolution by the Council of Europe concluded that the renditions were illegal, as was detaining the suspects without trial.

'This case requires a proper investigation and accountability and that needs to take place in Washington, not in a foreign court,' De Sousa told Carlson. 'So I'm hoping this is one thing the new administration does look into.'

The case, which became infamous in Italy as the 'Imam Rapito' (or 'Kidnapped Imam') affair, also implicates Italy's secret services, and has proven embarrassing to successive Italian governments.

De Sousa said in June that she sent a letter to Pope Francis through the Vatican's embassy in Lisbon, urging him to speak out against the extraordinary renditions used by the CIA after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

The pontiff already condemned the practice in a 2014 speech.

De Sousa, who was working in Italy under diplomatic cover, argues that she was never officially informed of the Italian court conviction and couldn't use confidential US government information to defend herself.

'I was never notified nor was I allowed to defend myself because of secrecy obligations,' she wrote in the letter to the Pope.

De Sousa claims she was skiing with her son in Northern Italy when Nasr was kidnapped. She says she only played a small role in the operation at the beginning and is now being a used as a 'scapegoat'

'The absence of due process and the imposition of various versions of state secrets are obstacles that prevent the many unanswered questions about the premise and justification for Abu Omar's rendition.'

Nasr was released in 2007, after four years of imprisonment, alternately in prison and on house arrest.

He claimed that while being held, he had been beaten, raped, had his genitals electrocuted and lost the hearing in one ear.

In February 2016, the European Court of Human Rights condemned Italy and ordered the country to pay €115,000 ($127,000) in damages and expenses to Nasr and wife Nabila Ghali.

Under Portuguese legal procedure, the Constitutional Court now sends its decision back to the lower court.

That court then informs the police, who set in motion the extradition process in conjunction with Italian authorities.