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Related: About this forumCIA Aiding Colombian Government in Assassinations of FARC Leadership
Dec 23, 2013
The Washington Post exposes how the CIA and NSA have transferred advanced tracking technology to the Colombian government to help eliminate FARC leadership, despite human right violations against its civilian population
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CIA Aiding Colombian Government in Assassinations of FARC Leadership (Original Post)
Coyotl
Dec 2013
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malthaussen
(17,202 posts)1. Why not? I mean, it worked so well in Reagan's time. n/t
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)2. I'm not sure what the problem with this is.
Getting rid of some of these murdering, drug running criminal bastards is a legitimate goal for the Colombian government. The fact that we assist an ally in pursuing vicious criminals - killer and kidnappers - and catching up with them strikes me as nothing more than normal assistance from a close ally.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)3. Only one problem: the "murdering, drug running criminal bastards" are the Columbian government
and Bush friends.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)4. And your basis for such an outlandish
assertion is????
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)5. Crickets...