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Reports on the infiltrations were sent to the presidency, the government's high commissioner for peace, the Defense Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, and high ranking military officials, Ospina added.
Over the past few months Colombia's Prosecutor General's Office has arrested several high DAS officials in the course of investigations into the illegal wire tapping of the country's Supreme Court, opposition politicians, and human rights organizations. --from the OP
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What we need to know here is how the reports were passed to the CIA and the Bush Junta White House. I of course suspect U.S. /Bushwhack ambassador William Brownfield, who was involved in so much other skulduggery, including the secret negotiations with Uribe, to get Uribe's signature, last year, on a document granting total diplomatic immunity to all U.S. military personnel and U.S. military 'contractors' in Colombia. The U.S. military 'advisors' likely provided all the latest high tech assistance for spying on everybody.
I read somewhere that one of the things Uribe was doing, with this spy program, was assembling "lists" of trade unionists and others, likely for targeting by the Colombian military or its closely tied rightwing paramilitary death squads. There is a rising smell to U.S./Colombian relations--the smell of a coverup. Something else Brownfield and Uribe did was to spirit key death squad witnesses out of Colombia, in the dead of night, "extraditing" them to the U.S., and then burying them in the U.S. federal prison system, out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors.
I'm also intrigued by this "fine" of Blackwater, that the State Dept. just did, for "unauthorized" "trainings" of "foreign persons" (not sure who) in Colombia, for use in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Note: Uribe's successor, Manuel Santos, was Defense Minister during some of this illegal spying. He would have gotten reports, according to the article. The wiretapping of judges is particularly interesting. That would likely be for dirt with which to blackmail and intimidate judges, and to identify which judges they needed to have the death squads send threats to. I wonder if and how Santos has cleaned his own trail. He's supposed to be the "new face" of Colombia, for purposes of "selling" the U.S. "free trade for the rich" deal with Colombia to the U.S. Congress. (Labor Democrats have held it up because of the murders of hundreds of trade unionists by the Colombian military and its death squads.) So Clintion & co. must feel pretty confident that Santos can't be netted in by Colombian prosecutors--on the death squads, on the spying, or on the many other crimes that Uribe and cohorts (and their puppetmasters in Washington) were involved in.
Dirty rotten smell, like decaying corpses.
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