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Peace Patriot

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1. The net seems to be tightening around Uribe.
Wed Jul 1, 2015, 04:32 AM
Jul 2015

I know it's been a long, long time coming, but, considering how well-protected this shit is, you gotta admire the amazing tenacity and the sheer courage of Colombian prosecutors. They may never get him but it won't be for lack of 'true grit.'

So well-protected that SOMEBODY arranged for him to get cushy academic sinecures at Harvard and Georgetown. Lordy, lordy--and that's where they teach, in their law schools, that "we need to look forward not backward" on the crimes of the uber-powerful. Yup, you could say Uribe belongs there. (But the Jesuits, my God! Have they no shame?!)

So well-protected that Bush Jr. pinned the U.S. "Medal of Freedom" on his spiffy little lapel.

So well-protected that SOMEBODY in the Obama administration arranged for him to sit on a prestigious international legal commission (the one that investigated Israel's firing on a peace ship). (Notice how nothing was done about that crime.)

So well-protected that he spends leisure time with Jr. and Sr. (Don't know about Jeb*.) (The * stands for Bush.) (Jeb's dropped Bush from his name. He's now just Jeb*.)

So well-protected that Sec of State Hillary Clinton wrote to the judge, in the Drummond Coal death squad case, implying that to force Uribe to do a deposition in the case was a threat to U.S. "national security." Result: No Uribe testimony for the relatives of Drummond Coal's death squad victims.

So well protected that at least one of Uribe's cohorts in a position to know about his many crimes--Maria Hurtado, one of his "security" chiefs--was spirited out of the country, when the prosecutors wanted to talk to her, and given instant, overnight asylum in Panama, an act of Panama's former president that caused him no end of political trouble in Panama, and that only the CIA could have pulled off, in my opinion.

She's back in Colombia now--so maybe he's not so protected any more. He certainly was uber-protected there for a while, but I never was sure (am still not sure) if Uribe was included in the "no prosecution" deal that Obama seems to have made with the Bush Junta principles--or, rather, the deal that was presented to Obama which he had no choice but to agree to, if he wanted to be President. Uribe was (is?) clearly a "made man" of some sort. (Bush Cartel? CIA? Miami Mafia?) But he is also a huge embarrassment to the U.S. government, if anybody cares about our reputation any more. Is he jettisonable? I don't know.

Could Colombian prosecutors proceed against Uribe if he is still "made" (if, as a Bush Junta lieutenant, he is included in their deal)? I don't know. But they sure don't seem to be letting up.



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