Uribe's sister-in-law and niece to be extradited on drug trafficking charges: Report .

[Peace Patriot]

3. Teaching our young people about the law at Harvard and Georgetown...

...under the protection of Bush Sr.'s close associate (member of his "Iraq Study Group," i.e., "old CIA&quot , Leon Panetta, whose first visible action as Obama-appointed CIA Director was to go to Bogota amidst rumors of a Uribe coup to stay in power, where he (my guess) yanked Uribe from the stage (too obviously dirty) but landed him on a silk cushion (knows too much about Jr.'s crimes in Colombia) including these cushy academic sinecures and other perks and benefits of being a Bush Cartel "made man." Uribe is now angling to return his criminal organization to power in Colombia.

All sorts of potential witnesses against Uribe have been removed from Colombia--including the death squad witnesses that Uribe and U.S./Bush Junta-appointed ambassador, Wm. Brownfield, spirited out of Colombia in 2010, on mere drug charges, and "buried" in the U.S. prison system by complete sealing of their cases (an unusual procedure) out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors and over their objections; and Maria Hurtado, head of Uribe's vast illegal spying operation, DAS (which Brownfield had a liaison to, and which is suspected of drawing up "hit lists" of trade unionists as well as spying on judges and prosecutors)--she was spirited out of Colombia to the U.S. client state of Panama where Uribe's rightwing pal gave her instant, overnight asylum, also over the objections of Colombian prosecutors, and concerning which somebody (Panetta?) has pressured Interpol NOT to honor a warrant request by Colombian prosecutors (who want her testimony against Uribe). Yet another Uribe crony--his "Justice and Peace" commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo--is reportedly on the lam in the U.S. He is also wanted by Colombian prosecutors on yet another Uribe crime.

THIS extradition (of Uribe's sister-in-law) resembles the death squad extraditions--the use of mere drug charges as the excuse for extradition, to cover up worse crimes by the principles (Uribe, Bush, et al). Once in the U.S., she can be pressured/bribed/forced to keep her mouth shut on certain things.

In addition to these and other witness removals (protection of Uribe), the U.S. State Department recently wrote a letter to the judge in the Drummond Coal death squad case here, successfully pressuring the judge NOT to compel Uribe to give a deposition. (Though Uribe is now a civilian with no office or position in Santos' government in Colombia, Uribe claimed "sovereign immunity" from being deposed in this case. While the State Department didn't accede to this absurd request for royal status, it did the next best thing by getting the judge to back off. One certainly has to wonder what "national security" considerations are involved in a U.S. corporation hiring righwing death squads to take care of their "labor problems" in their operations in Colombia.)

Uribe CLEARLY is under the protection of the U.S. government. Why? is the question. I think the answer is that Obama is under some sort of obligation to prevent investigation and prosecution of Bush Junta principles for their many terrible crimes, which, in Colombia, may include using the U.S. "war on drugs" to consolidate the cocaine trade into fewer hands and control that vast revenue stream, use of Colombia's civil war as "turkey shoot" practice for U.S. military 'contractor' hit squads with possible involvement of U.S. military personnel, USAID/Pentagon-designed "pacification" projects that ended in mass murder, direct aid to Uribe for spying on judges, prosecutors, trade unionists and other "enemies" and God knows what else.

Panetta would be the monitor and enforcer of any such "deal" that Obama made with the Bushwhacks (to keep them out of court and out of jail, in exchange for some quite limited powers as president). (I DO think that Obama was elected but he was also permitted to be elected, which is the problem. This is the power that Diebold gives to our transglobal rulers and war profiteers.) Panetta is a Bush Sr. close associate, probably tasked with ending the war between the CIA and the Pentagon that Rumsfeld/Cheney started, protecting Jr. and his masters from retribution, getting the U.S. war machine back on track, and covering up Jr.'s trail (as with protection of Uribe).

Right now our transglobal rulers are deciding who will be in the White House next year and whether or not to (or when to) restore Uribe to power in Colombia. I think they have had two broad plans and goals: 1) to prep Colombia for U.S. "free trade for the rich" by murdering hundreds of trade union leaders and other advocates of the poor and the brutal displacement of FIVE MILLION peasant farmers from their lands, in favor of the big, protected drug networks and corporate operations; and 2) Big Pharma's big move to take over the drug trade with legalization (which is favored throughout LatAm but has been most visibly advocated, recently, by rightwing leaders of U.S. client states, including Santos in Colombia).

I don't think they are going to let Romney win (as long as Obama keeps his bargains). I think they'll wait out this period of "forgetting" and go with Jeb in 2016, at which point Uribe may be returned to power in Colombia. Uribe says Santos is wrong on legalization but that Uribe (laughable) opinion could change overnight if he is offered power to implement Big Pharma's legalization/monopoly plans. I suspect he's just too dirty, though. LatAm is different from the U.S. these days. There is actually a chance, in LatAm, that major criminal players will end up in jail (or be forced to take refuge in Miami).