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Uribe is under CIA protection, in my opinion, and will not likely be prosecuted as long as he keeps his mouth shut about Bush Junta crimes in Colombia--or if he is prosecuted, he will be given refuge here.
It's becoming pretty clear that Uribe was included in the no-prosecution deal for Bush Jr, Cheney, Rumsfeld & others that I think was brokered by Daddy Bush, to save Junior's neck from CIA retribution over the outing of its WMD counter-proliferation unit. I think that this was one purpose of Bush Sr's "Iraq Study Group," of which current CIA Director Leon Panetta was a member--to protect Junior. Its other purpose may have been to oust Rumsfeld, because the military brass and the CIA disagreed with his intention to nuke Iran. My guess is that Panetta is "old CIA," and one his current assignments is to clean up after Junior, whom I suspect authorized U.S. crimes in Colombia, for instance, U.S. military or military 'contractor' "turkey shoot" practice against Colombian peasants. (Note: The U.S. State Department recently 'fined' Blackwater for "unauthorized" "training" of foreign persons in Colombia for use in Iraq and Afghanistan.) And God knows what else there is.
Uribe and Bush Jr were pals, and each ran the most corrupt, murderous, lawless government that either country has ever seen. So Uribe now gets protected and rewarded (or bribed for his silence, depending on how you look at it) with an Obama administration appointment to a prestigious international legal committee (the one investigating Israel's attack on aid ships) and an academic sinecure at Georgetown U. conferred upon him by the Jesuits (to cries of outrage from Jesuits in Colombia who themselves suffer from Uribe-created death threats, and who have seen thousands of innocent people murdered by Uribe's death squads and the U.S. funded Colombian military.)
The clues to Uribe's status as a CIA "made man" are several. One was Panetta's personal visit to Bogota during the rumors of a pending Uribe coup to stay in office. My first thought at the time was that Panetta was cutting Uribe loose. But other events argue against that, and argue for Panetta cleaning up details for the Bush Junta. For instance, Panetta/Obama/Clinton left Bush Jr appointee William Brownfield in place as ambassador to Colombia until very recently. Brownfield had certain things that he needed to get done. One of them was Uribe's signature on the secretly negotiated U.S./Colombia military agreement which, among other things, grants total diplomatic immunity to all US military personnel including all U.S. military 'contractors' in Colombia. The other was extradition to the U.S. of key death squad witnesses, on mere drug trafficking charges, and burying them in the U.S. federal prison system, with complete sealing of their cases, out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors (who were given no notice and who strongly objected). I think Uribe earned protection with these actions and the "right" to demand some perks for his trouble, such as the international legal committee and Georgetown appointments. And, although some 70 of Uribe's closest political associates are under investigation or already in jail for bribery, spying, drug trafficking, ties to the death squads and other crimes, I strongly doubt that Uribe will ever be nailed as the ringmaster of this crime wave in Colombia. And if he is, Miami will get one more luminary from the murderous rightwing detritus that has washed up on Miami's shores from Latin America.
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