Uribe refuses to provide evidence of President Santos’ drug money allegations

[Judi Lynn]

Uribe refuses to provide evidence of President Santos’ drug money allegations
May 13, 2014 posted by Victoria McKenzie



Senator-elect Alvaro Uribe refused to testify or provide evidence in support of his public criminal allegations against Colombia’s president before the Prosecutor General’s Office on Tuesday, national media reported.

After ignoring his first summons, Uribe appeared before the Prosecutor General and stated that he found no ‘guarantees’ of a fair investigation into his allegations that Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos received some $2 million in alleged drug money in 2012, reported El Pais newspaper.

Uribe announced that he would instead deliver his evidence — which he claims proves that the president used the alleged payment to cover up debts from his 2010 presidential campaign — to the Inspector General.

In a statement to the press on Tuesday, the senator-elect said that Santos had asked the Prosecutor to compel his appearance. Uribe then compared Santos’ presidency to that of current Venezuelan head of state Nicolas Maduro, positioning himself as persecuted dissident, and victim of presidential interference.

Uribe went on to say that he was being treated as a criminal, not as a witness in the prosecution.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/uribe-testify/

"Uribe went on to say that he was being treated as a criminal....."

If the shoe fits, by god, wear it.

[Peace Patriot]

1. My 'rule of thumb' for Bushwhacks applies...

Whatever they say, the opposite is true; and, whatever they accuse others of doing, they are doing or planning to do.

Uribe was handpicked by the Bush Junta to be their 'made man' in Colombia. He IS a Bushwhack. So it is no surprise that my 'rule of thumb' for Bushwhacks--which proved to be so useful--nearly infallible--as to detecting Bush Junta lies and determining the truth, works very well on Uribe.

Did he accuse Chavez of harboring the FARC guerrillas? Ah--as it turned out--that wasn't true; instead, it was Uribe's Black Eagles death squad that was infiltrating Venezuela. Did he accuse the presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador of conspiring to help the FARC obtain a "dirty bomb"? Not only did there turn out to be NO evidence for this charge (as for the above charge, and all Uribe charges), but, in fact, Chavez, Correa and others were trying to get the FARC to lay down their arms, release hostages and engage in a peace process--an effort that Uribe and the Bush Junta violently sabotaged by dropping 500 lb U.S. "smart bombs" on a FARC peace negotiation camp, just inside Ecuador's border, slaughtering 25 sleeping people, ending the hopes for peace in the near future in Colombia's 70 year civil war, and nearly starting a war between the U.S./Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela!

Uribe's perfidy knows no bounds. He was conspiring with the Bush Junta to, a) spy on his "enemies" (labor leaders, judges, prosecutors, politicians--including drawing up hit lists for the death squads); b) provide training ground for Blackwater death squads for Iraq and Afghanistan; c) test out U.S. drones on the Colombian peasantry; d) enrich giant bio/chem corporations by drenching peasant farms with toxic herbicides at U.S. taxpayers expense; e) conduct or condone massacres of peasant farmers and others, in one case as the consequence of a USAID 'pacification' program; f) oversee a policy of the Colombian military luring peasant boys with offers of jobs, murdering them and dressing their bodies up like FARC guerrillas, to please U.S. senators with bigger "body counts" and earn bonuses.

But the biggest thing of all that my 'rule of thumb' reveals is that Uribe, who obtained $7 BILLION U.S. taxpayer dollars for the corrupt, murderous, failed U.S. "war on drugs" in Colombia, was/is HIMSELF the mafia don for the biggest drug traffickers in Colombia. Some 100 of his closest cronies are under investigation, or already prosecuted and in jail, for DRUG TRAFFICKING, among other crimes. And what is probably going on here, in this latest Uribe madness, is that Colombian prosecutors may have finally gotten some good evidence of URIBE's ties to big drug gangs. He is probably trying to pre-empt a prosecutorial move against himself, by making wild charges against Santos. He uses wild charges as COVER. He's done it many times.

Whatever a Bushwhack accuses others of doing, he is doing (or planning to do).

[Judi Lynn]

2. Your comments reminded me of when I learned about the murders waiting job seekers

in Colombia.

DU'er rabs left a helpful video on this subject, four years ago.

Here's the post:

... ran across this video a few months ago. It tells the story of the poor youths from Soacha (poverty-stricken slum area on the outskirts of Bogota) who were offered jobs elsewhere in Colombia and a month later wound up as false positives, killed by the Colombian army. Video shows mothers of two of the youths, government claims that the FARC had killed them, then Santos saying they were killed in combat, uribe saying the same, until the truth finally came out in NGOs and Colombian and international media. This was happening in August 2008 when JM santos was defense minister.

Video is in Spanish, but easy to follow.

Another link is posted below rabs' post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=405&topic_id=37382#37384

After looking more closely, I see the English version was located, also. Those links are on the same short thread. Interesting, if you have the time.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Next bright idea: "Uribe asks Prosecutor General to step aside in campaign funding investigation"

Uribe asks Prosecutor General to step aside in campaign funding investigation
May 15, 2014 posted by Nicolas Bedoya

Former President Alvaro Uribe met Colombia’s Prosecutor General on Thursday to ask him and his deputy to step aside and let the Inspector General take the lead in investigating allegations of drug money funding President Santos’ 2010 campaign.

Ex-President Alvaro Uribe was only in the Prosecutor General’s building for a few minutes, according to local media and Uribe did not offer up evidence or a witness to back up the allegations he had made against current President.

“I came to the Prosecutor General and due to lack of guarantees for a fair investigation, I did not swear and did not disclose the evidence I have,” said Uribe in a quote in Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper.

During the meeting he supposedly handed over a document appealing for the Prosecutor General to recuse himself, that is, remove himself from participation in the case due to a potential conflict or prejudice.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/uribe-goes-prosecutor-general-ask-recusal/#prettyPhoto

[Peace Patriot]

4. Uribe's outrages are directly related to his CIA protection...

...in my opinion. His utter arrogance; his continued baldfaced lying; his obscene parading as a respectable public figure. I wondered if he would come under the same protection as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. He was certainly their "made man" in Colombia. And apparently he has. The CIA (Panetta, pal of Bush Sr.) likely arranged instant asylum for Uribe's spy chief in Panama, when Colombian prosecutors wanted to question her. They probably also are responsible for Uribe--of all people!--getting cushy academic sinecures at Georgetown and Harvard. A Jesuit human rights worker in Uribe's hometown sent a letter objecting to Uribe's appointment at Georgetown, citing his notorious ties to rightwing death squads from early in his career. This didn't seem to bother the Jesuits at Georgetown (where George Tenet is an alumnus). Uribe was also appointed to sit on a prestigious international legal commission (the one investigating Israel's attack on the peace boat) (--so ironical, when Uribe oversaw the U.S./Colombia attack on the FARC peace camp with 500 lbs. U.S. "smart bombs&quot .

Anyway, I think there was something that I call "the Deal"--mostly about Rumsfeld/Cheney's plan to nuke Iran, which Bush Sr. didn't agree with, and Rumsfeld/Cheney's war with the CIA, including their outing not just of Valerie Plame but of the entire CIA worldwide WMD counter-proliferation network. (Likely they outed this network when their plan to plant WMDs in Iraq was sabotaged.) I think the CIA sicced Fitzgerald on Cheney (re: the outings) then Fitzgerald mysteriously backed off (saying, in essence, that dealing with the VP was a political matter). They ousted Rumsfeld (whereupon all talk of nuking Iran went away) and kept Cheney on a short leash in the last two years of the Bush Junta. And among the items "on the table" were impeachment, investigation (real investigation) and prosecution for their many huge crimes. Cheney, Rumsfeld and (not incidentally--of big concern to Bush Sr.) Bush Jr. got immunity on all counts, as did their subordinates (except the sacrificial Libby). Would Uribe be included? Yep, that seems to have been part of "the Deal." Panetta, in his first weeks as CIA Director, went down to Bogota to arrange it. Uribe's death squads, drug trafficking, illegal domestic spying (on judges and prosecutors, among others) and many other crimes can be tied to the Bush Junta. So he had to be included.

Thus, his arrogance. He thinks he is untouchable.