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report (falsified the summary), but it does reinforce my guess that the CIA is protecting Uribe, probably because of what he knows about Bush Junta complicity in his many crimes.
Panetta (a member of Daddy Bush's "Iraq Study Group") I'm pretty sure was tasked with protecting Junior, among other things, and Panetta's first visible action as CIA Director was to visit Bogota, amidst rumors of a Uribe coup to stay in power. Probably made a deal with Uribe, to get this filthy dirty embarrassment--who is being pursued by courageous Colombian prosecutors--out of the spotlight as a U.S. ally and traded protection for his not proceeding with his coup and for keeping his mouth shut (and possibly for promises--I've been thinking recently--of his return to power).
Some of the protection was already in motion--Uribe's and Bushwhack U.S. Ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield's midnight extraditions of 30 death squad witnesses to the U.S. and their "burial" in the U.S. federal prison system on mere drug charges--out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors and over their objections. Cover up of Bush Junta crimes in Colombia was also in motion, with the secret Uribe/Brownfiield military agreement that gave all U.S. military personnel and all U.S. military 'contractors' in Colombia "total diplomatic immunity." (Odd that that was needed more than a decade into the U.S. military presence in Colombia.)
The extraditions interfered with many death squad investigations and prosecutions. Then the Colombian prosecutors started making headway on Uribe's vast, illegal domestic spying operations, and lo and behold, Uribe's spy chief absconds to Panama, and is given instant, overnight asylum there, by the same guy, Martinelly, who had demanded that the U.S. (Bush Junta) give HIM help in spying on HIS enemies. (Wikileaks memo.)
This has caused Martinelly no end of political trouble and I figure he had to have been strong-armed pretty heavily to do it. Could have been Uribe pressure (death threats? blackmail?) on his RW pal Martinelly. Uribe's gotten FOUR Colombian legislators to resign from the committee investigating Uribe, two of them admitting that it was because of death threats (and the other two probably for the same reason). So that could be how Maria Hurtado got asylum, but it had to have occurred at least with a U.S. okay. The CIA was meanwhile working on "laundering" Uribe's image with academic sinecures at Georgetown (one of who's alumni is George Tenet, to give you the flavor of this Jesuit favor) and Harvard, where they teach students to "look forward not backward" on the crimes of the rich and powerful.
All in all, the U.S. government is looking more and more like the Mafia, writ large--and Uribe and the local criminal network he was running in Colombia--and seems still to be running (more death threats, more murders)--is just a subset of the immense criminal organization that ran things here for eight years and is still probably running things behind the scenes.
Denial of the Colombian prosecutors' request for an Interpol warrant is a very bad sign, as is Uribe's arrogance and preening as a "made men"--an untouchable just like Junior. What it may be signaling is a return of Uribe and the Bushwhacks to direct control over the levers and legal powers and war powers, and war profiteering powers, of government.
Earlier this year, Uribe demanded "sovereign immunity" in the U.S. against testifying in the Drummond Coal death squad case, here, and, while he wasn't given the title (king of Colombia?) the State Dept. did write a letter to the judge pressuring the judge not to force Uribe to give a deposition and implying that national security was at risk. I imagine that it was, but nothing that you or I would consider "national security" (protecting this murderous little mafioso or his bigger Bush Junta brethren).
One factor that is very hard to see, in all this, is the trillion+ dollar cocaine trade, and how Uribe may have been using the U.S. "war on drugs" to consolidate power over this trade (for instance, by driving 5 million peasants from their lands with state terror) and to direct its revenues. That may be more to the point, as to CIA and Interpol protection of Uribe than anything else, although clearly there are vast public treasuries to be looted, social programs to be looted and destroyed, yet more fertile lands and mortgaged homes to be sucked up, more resources to be ravaged, more government taxes and regulations to be dismantled, lots of war profiteering still to be done and many other things on the far rightwing/global corporate agenda, on the "licit" side. The potential motives for protecting Uribe are MANY. The only thing we can be absolutely sure of is that he IS being protected. That was crystal clear even before Interpol's denial of this warrant. Why and what it may portend are less certain, except that great evil lurks beneath the "why" and the omens for the future are very bad.
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