CIA Director meets with Colombian president

[Enrique]

Source: Colombia Reports

In this photo released by Colombia's Presidential Press Office, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe, left, meets with Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta, right, at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Colombia Presidential Press Office, Cesar Carrion)

President Uribe met with CIA director Leon Panetta on Thursday to discuss the Colombia-U.S free trade agreement and the over haul of Colombia's scandal-ridden intelligence agency, the DAS.

During the hour-long meeting, Panetta agreed to speak directly with President Barack Obama about Uribe's desire to see the trade agreement passed soon.

Panetta also praised Uribe's counter-narcotics efforts and his hard-hitting policies against the FARC.

The two also discussed how to reform training for DAS personnel. There are currently criminal investigations pending against 40 DAS officials for alleged involvement in the illegal wiretapping of journalists and human rights activists.



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Sorry no domestic news source, but I couldn't find a single story anywhere on this meeting between our country's CIA director and the head of state of another country.

[bitchkitty]

1. Shit, meet Stain. n/t

[midnight]

2. Hmmm.... I love the third guys expression.....

[Flaneur]

3. Uribe, our man in South America.

This ought to play well in the rest of the continent, given the CIA's long, inglorious history there.

[dgibby]

4. I fear this will not end well.n/t

[Arctic Dave]

5. I don't understand why it would take an hour.

Panetta to Uribe, "Sure kill anyone you want, just as long as we benefit from it".

[UTUSN]

6. If Huguito hadn't signed URIBE's death contract before, THIS ought to do it!1 n/t

[Enthusiast]

7. Maybe we can get Columbia in a

war with Venezuela.

No?

Maybe we can get a "free" trade agreement with Columbia! There are still SOME job we can export. There are still some left to give away. This would make President Obama VERY popular and result in overwhelming Democratic support in the 2010 election. Just imagine!