New and shocking revelations about the ' pikes ' DAS (Uribe DAS wiretapping political enemies)

[Judi Lynn]

Moderator, it's necessary to copy this article, since non-Spanish speakers can't read it at the Spanish language site:
Google translation from Caracol Radio, Colombia:

New and shocking revelations about the ' pikes ' DAS
Caracol | September 22, 2010

Caracol Radio had access to a large number of documents that revealed the espionage carried out from the DAS against judges , politicians and journalists, in what is known as the scandal of " pikes " .

The documents show that from the DAS security agency under the Presidency of the Republic, was set up which is considered by the prosecution as a " machinery criminal "to continue illegally to all opponents of the government of Alvaro Uribe and the people close the executive who is suspected to have possible proximity with opponents .

The emails that passed between former senior officials DAS , thousands of intelligence reports made by sources top secret that were followed up at judges, resume detailed political and even diagrams family structure of the so-called "white" or objectives, were found by researchers in the laptops of the Administrative Department of Security.

In computers are found traces digital of follow-ups since 2004 , and include a large number of emails that were exchanged former director of DAS , Maria del Pilar Hurtado , Martha Leal , former deputy director of operations of the agency and the captain Fernando Tabares and Jorge Alberto Lagos.

Among the thousands of files scanned by the prosecution, was very striking to a folder that was hidden in one of the laptops used by the DAS. There he found more than 600 intelligence reports from sources aside , fully identified with a code, which provided information about private meetings of trade unions , political opponents of the government of Alvaro Uribe as Piedad Córdoba , Gustavo Petro , Carlos Gaviria and more importantly : They handed dozens of reports on each of the movements of the judges of the Supreme Court .

In one such report , for example, has the title reserved and was sent to DAS by July 2008, the source, the paper says, is " recruited, reliable access to information through third parties well-placed " , and is identified as "Seller Y64 -1, provides details of an extraordinary meeting of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court , which provide for a mass resignation , before the attacks he had made against him in these days, the then President Alvaro Uribe.

Another report , from a source identified as Y66 -3, which provides details of comments made judges of the Supreme Court on July 8, 2008 . For example , delivery to DAS the following: "Some judges met in this day and proposed to sue the president ( the judges are Dr. Jaime Arrubla Paucar , Augusto Ibañez Guzmán, Tarquin ). "

There are even transcription of recordings illegal were two former employees of General Services meetings Plenary of the 23 judges and the observed positions distant among some members of the Supreme Court.

A new feature known by Caracol Radio from the record of the Prosecutor for the " pikes " , deals with the discovery of documents showing that the DAS also had infiltrated the Attorney General 's Office.

In a paper entitled Exclusive to the Branch Resources Human of the DAS , and delivered by the source identified as " Y64 -1, classified as "regular , reliable access to information through a third party located in the white "is reports to DAS the February 18, 2009 that the Attorney Alejandro Ordoñez decided to reverse the possible dismissal of Diego Palacio and Pretelt allegedly had ready to sign the former Attorney General Edgardo Maya.

Says the source in the written report : "in session closed on 18 February 2009 in his office , the Attorney General's Office , Alejandro Ordoñez Maldonado, determined to abrogate the possible dismissal of the Minister of Protection Social , Diego Palacio and former Colombia's ambassador to Italy, Sabas Pretelt de la Vega, by the process called the " yidispolítica . "

He also says that " The current attorney Ordoñez Maldonado, reversed the decision and will not impose the penalty of dismissal , a determination that will be released in the coming days. "

It is important to note that the acquittal in favor of Diego the Palace and Pretelt was reported to the March 16, 2009 , a month after the report sent to the DAS by one of his infiltrated the Attorney General.

Among the evidence found in the hard disks of DAS , were also found documents that supported the so-called "Case Paseo " , related to illegal surveillance conducted against several Court judges Supreme who attended a tribute to Yesid Ramirez Neiva , paid by controversial businessman Ascencio Reyes.

Caracol Radio was among these documents, the list of number citizen identification of those attending the tribute, and pay stub card credit Ascencio Reyes in the hotel Pacandé where they stayed for judges and other guests at the event.

In the intensive investigations conducted into the computers of the DAS , also found new evidence of the "hunt "that was established from the Department Administrative Security against the Party Liberal .

A report marked as exclusive to the Branch Resources Human , the first of September 2008, at the qe are given details DAS of a meeting in Ibague of former President Cesar Gaviria with Alfonso Gomez Mendez , Rodrigo Rivera and Rafael Pardo.

The source said " this has become public knowledge, then mention what became known under the table . Following the confrontation verbal and ideological , between President Uribe and the opposition (Liberals) and especially with former President Gaviria , and with respect to the last statement which Gaviria said that Uribe , is liberalism and the opposition disrespect , as if they were the guerrillas of the FARC , Gaviria in his speech attacking President Uribe will demand respect for others liberalism, and opposition and invite the liberalism to unity and the reconquest of power. "

Another report from a source identified as Y -64 dated August 26, 2008 , sent to the DAS report on movement thinking forward opposition to a possible third term of president Alvaro Uribe.

It reads: "the Polo Democrático Alternativo, Movement Watch , the caucus for the country that dream and Liberalism sought this week to attack individually and collectively to the government of President Alvaro Uribe against the proposal for political reform , arguing This is a proposal to serious gaps and pro-government that tries to " create a smokescreen in front of the high courts for their work in front of the para-politics . "

All these documents will be taken into account by the prosecutor to define in the next few days the status of four former directors of DAS and former senior officials of the Presidential Palace and Bernardo Moreno.

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