Prosecutor General pushes Congress to investigate Uribe

[Judi Lynn]

Prosecutor General pushes Congress to investigate Uribe
Tuesday, 08 March 2011 09:34
Jim Glade

Colombia's Prosecutor General's Office ordered the country's congress' Accusations Commission to push its investigation of ex-President Alvaro Uribe for his alleged role in the wire-tap scandal, reported several media sources Tuesday.

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The Prosecutor General urged the congressmen involved in the investigation to take initiative to gather any evidence and assess evidence that has already been presented in preliminary investigations to clarify if their was any involvement by the former head of state.

The body also requested that the congressional commission to certify copies of evidence to authenticate their veracity.
Several media reported that the Prosecutor General asked specifically for the Commission to investigate if Uribe could be incriminated in the wiretapping of human rights defenders before 2005.

The wiretap scandal involved DAS' illegal monitoring of journalists, trade unions, human-rights officials, opponents in government and court magistrates.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/14779-prosecutor-general-pushes-congress-to-investigate-uribe.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Colombian intelligence agency spied on UN: Report

Colombian intelligence agency spied on UN: Report
Friday, 04 March 2011 07:13 Adriaan Alsema

Colombia's state intelligence agency DAS wiretapped representatives of the United Nations (U.N. in the country, newspaper El Tiempo reported Thursday. According to the newspaper, Colombia's Prosecutor General's Office has a number of documents that prove that the U.N. was a subject of illegal surveillance.

A scandal broke in 2009 about the DAS's illegal wiretapping of groups and individuals considered to be critical of the Uribe government, including human rights workers, Supreme Court magistrates, and journalists.

El Tiempo reports that the evidence of the illegal wiretapping of the U.N includes photos, such as that of a former director of the Colombia Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael Fruling; emails sent from U.N. officials; and DAS work orders.

It was reported in April 2010 that leaked reports from the prosecutor general showed that DAS carried out illegal monitoring as part of a smear campaign against European organizations, including the UNHCR.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/14729-colombian-intelligence-agency-spied-on-un.html

[rabs]

2. This is merely a show

The "Accusations Commission" in the lower house of congress has 19 members. Fifteen are uribistas, Partido de la U, or para-narco politicians from the PIN.

The commission will go through the motions and in the end suspect it will be another farce.

Btw, eight charges were filed against JuanMa Santos in the commission last year, before he was inaugurated. That news is generally not known and the process is languishing in the commission.

[Judi Lynn]

3. 8 charges against him before the election! That's interesting.

Looks as if it didn't phase him one bit.

What a shame they pretend to have a commission like that. It will probably be idle until the day there might finally be some progressives in government in Colombia. THEN they'll be all ready for them.

Looking less and less as if anyone will step forward to even slap his (Alvarito's) slimy little hands. What a shame.

[Peace Patriot]

4. They won't likely mess with CIA "made rulers" like Uribe and Santos.

U.S. ambassador Brownfield and CIA Director Panetta already got major death squad witnesses out of the country--'extradited' to the U.S. on mere drug charges, and "buried" in the U.S. federal prison system--out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors and over their objections--by complete sealing of their cases in U.S. federal court in Washington DC; and by arranging instant asylum for the chief spying witness against Uribe, in the U.S. client state of Panama (also over Colombian prosecutors' objections). Now Uribe is skulking around the U.S. to his academic sinecures at Georgetown and Harvard (trying to avoid subpoena servers) and enjoying other prestigious appointments, from a grateful nation--or I guess I should say from the grateful multinational corporations and war profiteers who rule our nation. They really don't belong to this or any other nation.

Much of this subversion of Colombia's justice system, I suspect, was to keep Uribe's lip zipped about Bush Junta crimes in Colombia--although there are other (or additional) possibilities (for instance, that he is a key to the Bush Cartel's and/or the CIA's cocaine revenue stream). Whacking trade unionists, human rights workers, teachers, community activists, journalists, political leftists and peasant farmers was probably just too much "fun" for the Bush Junta to keep out of. Brownfield was kept in place in Colombia (by Obama/Clinton*/Panetta) to accomplish the extraditions and also to get a Uribe signature on a secretly negotiated U.S./Colombia military agreement that gave total diplomatic immunity to all U.S. military personnel and all U.S. military 'contractors' in Colombia. And Uribe, who ran the criminal enterprise that was the Colombian government, has certainly been given protection and coddling by the Obama government, already notorious for protecting Bush Junta criminals (and repeating Bush Junta crimes, as to the "turkey shoots" in Afghanistan and the outrageously illegal "trials" and detentions at Guantanamo Bay, and God knows where else).

Putting two and two together...

:puke:

Uribe was so filthy dirty, they really had to remove him (and protect him). Thus, their new man Santos, whose character can probably be read by inference from the fawning that Simon Romero does over him, in a recent New York Slimes column. Santos was Defense Minister to Uribe's mafia don, for several years. He is now claiming to be Colombia's "FDR." Jeez.

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*(Earlier this year, Clinton "fined" Blackwater for "unauthorized" "trainings" of "foreign persons" IN COLOMBIA "for use in Iraq and Afghanistan.)

[joshcryer]

5. Is there anyone else here who has this level of distaste for Santos?

This is actually a little surprising to me and I'm wondering if this sentiment is being shared.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Of course there is, and it was no secret YEARS ago. So continue being surprised. n/t

[joshcryer]

7. So you don't like Santos?

[Judi Lynn]

8. Uribe should learn about peace: Perez Esquivel

Uribe should learn about peace: Perez Esquivel
Wednesday, 23 February 2011 06:53
Adriaan Alsema

Argentine Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel lashed back at Alvaro Uribe Tuesday, saying Colombia's former president should "learn what peace really is."

The remark followed a Twitter attack by Uribe, who accused Velez Esquivel of "running errands for the FARC" and "promoting terrorism in Colombia."

"If looking for peace is terrorism, I think Uribe has to learn what peace really is," the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize winner said from Argentina, where he is attending a three-day forum on peace in Colombia.

The Argentine considers it "not worth the effort" to sue the Colombian former head of state for slander, he told reporters.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/14541-uribe-should-instruct-himself-on-peace-matters.html