Uribe's right-hand man ordered jailed in DAS scandal

[rabs]

Bernardo Moreno will be sitting in a jail for a while.

The DAS scandal has arrived at alvarito uribito's door. His former top presidential aide, Bernardo Moreno, was ordered jailed today (Saturday) as a preventive measure by a Bogota Superior Court judge, Marlene Orjuela.

The judge ruled that Moreno could obstruct justice by intimidating witnesses in his ongoing trial for his role in the DAS scandal. There was no indication of how long Moreno will be languishing in jail while his trial creeps along.

That makes two top uribistas jailed this week, Moreno and uribito's former minister of agriculture Felipe Arias, in the Agro scandal.

uribito will be tweeting about Moreno, as the DAS-Gate inches closer and closer to him. The question is whether Moreno will take the fall for his former boss.


(For those interested in more details, El Tiempo, El Espectador and Semana are reporting the story today, in Spanish.)

[EFerrari]

1. Uribe must be eating Valium lie M&Ms at this point. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

2. Amazing! Not that he would be suspected, but that he would be dealt with this way! Spectacular.

Who on earth would have believed, after Uribe's people bribed Senators to vote for changing the Constitution to allow him to run again, that he and his criminal cabal would EVER get anywhere near a courtroom as a defendant?

So as Moreno would intimidate witnesses to stay out of prison, we know what Uribe would do to Moreno to do the same.

This is unbelievably precarious, the very chance any of them would really be brought to real justice.

News so big it almost doesn't seem possible! Thank you. Rec.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Former chief of staff to Colombia’s ex-president jailed in eavesdropping scandal

Former chief of staff to Colombia’s ex-president jailed in eavesdropping scandal
By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, July 30, 5:10 PM

BOGOTA, Colombia — A Colombian judge on Saturday ordered the arrest of former President Alvaro Uribe’s chief of staff for alleged involvement in spying on judges, journalists and politicians by the domestic security agency. Bernardo Moreno, 51, is the second top former aide to Uribe to be ordered arrested on criminal charges.

A former agricultural minister, Andres Felipe Arias, was jailed Tuesday for allegedly favoring political cronies with irrigation subsidies. But the Moreno case is the first affecting Uribe’s former inner sanctum. He was the president’s chief of staff for both his terms in office from 2002-2010.

Judge Marlene Orjuela ordered Moreno jailed while he is tried for criminal conspiracy, abuse of public office and other charges. Moreno faces at least three years in prison if convicted by the Supreme Court. He denies any wrongdoing.

Colombia’s chief prosecutor, Viviana Morales, alleges Moreno took part in a key September 2007 meeting at an exclusive Bogota club in which he directly instructed officials of the DAS state security agency to spy on political foes and critics of Uribe.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/former-chief-of-staff-to-colombias-ex-president-jailed-in-eavesdropping-scandal/2011/07/30/gIQAJWoWjI_story.html

[Judi Lynn]

4. Please see this strange un-AP-like part from the article:

The DAS has along been a troubled agency mixed up in Colombia’s dirty war targeting alleged sympathizers of leftist rebels.

It was infiltrated by cocaine-trafficking far-right militias during Uribe’s tenure, and another former DAS director, Jorge Noguera, allegedly colluded with death squads, providing them with lists of labor leaders and leftist intellectuals to target for assassination. Noguera’s case is being tried by the Supreme Court.

Makes you wonder what's going on when Associated Press suddenly refers to what has been happening in Colombia as a "dirty war" in this article. Are they trying to stay ahead of shifting world views of this filth now that the rest of the world's starting to find out what has been happening there despite all efforts of the corporate media?

I think so. Now they're admitting the targets of the government appear to have been "alleged" leftist sympathizers.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Aide to former Colombian president faces arrest

30 July 2011 Last updated at 21:40 ET
Aide to former Colombian president faces arrest

A senior aide of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is facing criminal prosecution.

A judge has ordered the arrest of Mr Uribe's former chief of staff, Bernardo Moreno, for allegedly spying on judges, journalists and politicians.

It is the second such order this week. Andres Felipe Arias, a former agriculture minister, has been charged with corruption. He denies the allegations.

Alvaro Uribe left office last year.

Mr Moreno served as Mr Uribe's chief of staff for both of his presidential terms, from 2002-2010.

More:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14356551

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George W. Bush awards the Medal of Freedom to Alvaro Uribe.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Spying allegations moving closer to Uribe's door

Spying allegations moving closer to Uribe's door
Saturday, 30 July 2011 18:31

A criminal judge has ordered the arrest of a close aide of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe who was the keynote speaker at a Panamanian political gathering a week before.

Former Secretary General of the Presidency, Bernardo Moreno, was arrested for his alleged involvement in spying by the secret police.

This is the first court decision that goes directly to the doors of what was Uribe's office, against whom so far there is no formal process or investigation.

Uribe, was the keynote speaker at the Panamenista congress in Panama a week before, a choice that surprised some political commentators.

More:
http://www.newsroompanama.com/panama/3139-spying-allegations-moving-closer-to-uribes-door.html