Prosecution asks court to convict former Uribe aides over wiretapping scandal

[Judi Lynn]

Prosecution asks court to convict former Uribe aides over wiretapping scandal
Oct 7, 2014 posted by Matthew Sterne

Prosecutors on Monday formally requested Colombia’s Supreme Court to convict two former aides of ex-President Alvaro Uribe allegedly involved in a plot of tracking and wiretapping journalists, judges, congressmen and human rights defenders.

In its final speech before the ruling, the prosecution asked the court to convict Uribe’s former chief of staff, Bernardo Moreno, and the former director of now-defunct intelligence agency DAS, Maria del Pilar Hurtado.

Prosecutor Maria Victoria Parra gave a detailed account of the research process which advanced against Moreno and Hurtado and the developing case against the wiretapping calls.

According to the prosecuting body, there is “no doubt” that the actions of the two former officials were outside the law and, therefore, requested that these two individuals be declared responsible for the crimes of conspiracy, unlawful communication and abuse of public office. Both are facing a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.

MORE: DAS wiretapping scandal

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Moreno said that President Alvaro Uribe requested information on trips to Venezuela of former Senator Piedad Cordoba, a staunch leftist and ally of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/colombian-prosecutors-pushing-conviction-two-senior-former-officials-wiretapping-case/

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Primitive banana republic.

They seem to have the atavistic notion that the government lacks the right to wiretap whoever they want, whenever they want.

[Judi Lynn]

2. So backwards. <sigh> What can you do?

You'd think the billions of US taxpayers' hard-earned tax dollars stuffed into their government coffers would have been able to educate them more on the way to get things done.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I think we're obligated to

take them over send them military assistance. They are in desperate need of someone to take charge of their oil & minerals show them the path to a proper democracy.

[Judi Lynn]

4. You've hit the nail on the head!

And, the U.S. is just the business-friendly country to do it! Continually!