Evidence to be submitted in Colombian wiretapping scandal .

[Judi Lynn]

Evidence to be submitted in Colombian wiretapping scandal .
Tuesday, 29 May 2012 08:15
Christan Leonard

Colombia's Prosecutor General's Office asked to submit a document proving the former director of the country's now-dismantled national security agency authorized the payment of an informant to follow ex-senator Piedad Cordoba, according to newspaper El Tiempo.

In the case against the former director of Colombia's Department of Administrative Security (DAS), Maria del Pilar Hurtado, the prosecution has asked to present documentation indicating Hurtado signed off on a payment of more than $10,000 to a photographer to follow Cordoba while she was touring Europe in 2010.

The request was submitted in the preparatory trial against Hurtado and former President Alvaro Uribe's Chief of Staff, Bernardo Moreno.

Both officials were implicated in the wiretapping scandal in which they allegedly illegally spied on Cordoba as well as supreme court judges, former congressman Yiddish Medina and the current mayor of Bogota Gustavo Petro.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/24283-evidence-submitted-in-colombian-wiretapping-scandal.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Somebody helped Hurtado flee Colombia and got her instant asylum in the U.S. client state of Panama.

And somebody is also pressuring Interpol to deny the Colombian prosecutors' request for an Interpol warrant to return her to Colombia.

It is possible that Uribe got Hurtado asylum in Panama, though I suspect Leon Panetta. Uribe is close pals with the rightwing president of Panama. However, that asylum has caused the president of Panama so much local and international political trouble that I tend to doubt that he would have done it just as a favor to a rightwing crony. And there is other 'tip of the iceberg" evidence that Panetta is protecting Uribe, probably because of what Uribe knows about Bush Junta crimes in Colombia.

Also, the pressure on Interpol seems more likely to have come from the U.S. than (out of office) Uribe. Uribe got Interpol to lie for him once, when he was still mob boss...um...president of Colombia, but that turned out so badly (really embarrassing for Interpol--they seemed to be endorsing falsified, now debunked, evidence), I tend to doubt that they would do his bidding again. Panetta, though, would have the clout to subvert both Panama's laws and international agreements among LatAm countries, and Interpol.

I think there is quite a story behind Obama's appointment of Panetta as CIA Director. Panetta is a close associate of Bush Senior, and was a member of his "Iraq Study Group" which I think ousted Rumsfeld and curtailed Cheney, to end the war between the Pentagon and the CIA that Cheney and Rumsfeld had started, which Panetta is now doing. I suspect that Panetta was also tasked with cleaning up after Junior in (the first place he visited as CIA Director) Colombia.