Colombia’s Operation Stairway and the secret agent who carried it out

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia’s Operation Stairway and the secret agent who carried it out
Juan Forero, Published: August 20

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alba Luz Florez, a secret agent with Colombia’s central spy agency, recalled preparing diligently for her mission. At first, she was told only that it was a matter of national security.

She left her family for a safe house and took on a new identity. She underwent three months of intense training on how to develop informants. Then she and planners in the intelligence agency mapped out every step of an operation that called on her to infiltrate the Colombian Supreme Court in the search of evidence linking its justices with the criminal underworld.

“Everything I could learn about the court was of utmost importance to the agency,” Florez, 33, said in an interview with The Washington Post.

Florez said she never questioned the motivation behind the operation, which prosecutors now say was designed to cripple the court’s investigation of corrupt congressmen, most of them allies of then-President Alvaro Uribe. Indeed, the intelligence agency — the Department of Administrative Security, or DAS — was under the control of the president.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/colombias-operation-stairway-and-the-secret-agent-who-carried-it-out/2011/08/20/gIQAJ6LYSJ_story.html?wprss=rss_americas

[Peace Patriot]

1. Bush Jr.: 'Tsk, tsk. Oh, that bad little Alvaro, trying to subvert the Supreme Court--and failing!

We'll just have to give him more billions of U.S. tax dollars, more of our "technical assistance" ...heh-heh ...and more of our "training" to do it right!.'

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Oh, wait! The Washington Psst says all Junior wanted was to eradicate all them coca fields and git them terrsts, and if anybody was pervertin Supreme Courts an that it's their own Spanish thang an ain't nothin to do with America's precious bodily fluids. And I believe the Washington Psst cuz its straight from the CIA and they found Jebbus, too, after some persuadin. All em Jebbus folk eradicatin and gittin, its a glory to behold, an then look what them Spanish done, the ingrets, they git caught. But not red white n blue Murkins, cain't never get caught cuz their doin Gawd's work an got billions to show fert. Teach ya not to trust 'em Papish forners even if Gawd give 'em dominion a snort. The Lawd Gawd He moves in histerical ways even at commie newspapers.

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Edited to add:
"U.S. aid implicated in abuses of power in Colombia" (Washington Psst)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4968979

[Peace Patriot]

2. K&R! This was unrec'ed. Somebody doesn't the public to know about this. nt

[Judi Lynn]

3. Waving their tiny antennae in futility trying to devalue information on Latin America's progress

away from the bondage of the northern bully.

Kinda pitiful, in the end, isn't it?

They appear to connect the loss of power through aggression against Latin America with onset of their own waning physical strength in their daily lives, I'll betcha! Trying to live vicariously through brutal exploitation of the helpless.

At some point professional wrestling must have lost its charm for them and they turned to bigger matters.

[gbscar]

4. Most of this was reported in Colombian sources last year, but it's good to have it in English. (nt)

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