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and $7 BILLION in U.S taxpayer money, and the Obama administration--apparently under an obligation to protect not just Bush, Cheney, Rumfeld and immediate cohorts from investigation and prosecution, but also any ancillary crime bosses that they had happened to hire with our money, such as Uribe--has been actively protecting and coddling Uribe, by extraditing death squad witnesses to the U.S. on mere drug charges and burying them in the U.S. federal prison system--out the reach of Colombian prosecutors and over their objections--by okaying and possibly arranging instant asylum for the chief spying witness against Uribe, Maria Hurtado, in the U.S. client state of Panama, also over the objections of Colombian prosecutors (who now have an Interpol warrant out against her), by the State Dept. writing to the judge in the Drummond Coal death squad case warning the judge not to force Uribe to give a deposition, by honoring Uribe with academic sinecures at Georgetown and Harvard and by appointing him to a prestigious international legal commission. There is probably more to this than that Uribe is a Bush Cartel "made man" and thus the Democrats are obliged to give him "equal protection"; he probably knows some things about U.S. crimes (possibly U.S. military or military contractor crimes authorized by the Bush Junta) in Colombia that the Obama administration feels obliged to cover up.
It's quite interesting that the "dots" are finally being connected between the spying and the death squads. I wonder if, as I suspect of the Honduran coup, this spying scandal is a "time bomb" meant to explode in Obama's face--that is, once compromised by a deal to cover up U.S. participation in Uribe's crimes in Colombia, Obama can be "gotten" by that agreement, with the perps (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, esp. Rumsfeld, long ago immunized and out of the picture, their crimes fading into history), and even if the Obamaites were to jettison Uribe. Like any co-conspirator, they, too are guilty--and they are the ones running for re-election, not the long gone war criminals. It's the sort of twisted knife-in-the-back thing that the rightwing does. And this may explain why scumbag 'journalsts' like the Associated Pukes are giving it any currency at all (it is set-up of Obama). I keep trying to attribute good motives to Obama, Panetta and Clinton, on this matter--that is, that maybe they have had such utter criminality, by people with such enormous power, to deal with in our government--still resonant in our government, with active and latent operatives-- that they CAN'T always do the right thing--or they think they can't--and they CAN'T make themselves look good, in some circumstances. For instance, maybe they dearly want to jettison Uribe (let the Colombian prosecutors have him) but they can't do it openly; they are maybe pulling strings, leaking things, or whatever, very secretly, to insure that he faces justice? But looking at what we can SEE of their actions (the above), they look very bad, indeed. And, all in all, I don't have much hope that this is true. I think the U.S. government has become a continuum of war crimes followed by war crime coverups, all in the interest of multinational corporations and war profiteers.
I keep waiting for the OTHER shoe to drop, in this particular situation--Colombia and Uribe's crimes--that the U.S. was providing technical assistance and operatives to help Uribe identify targets--trade unionists, human rights workers, teachers, campesino leaders, etc.--and to murder them. It's very curious what the rightwing president of Panama said, to the U.S. ambassador, in one of the Wikileaks cables--he demanded that the U.S. help him spy on his political enemies (like the U.S. was doing for his pal Uribe?).
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