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The Uribe administration is like a "little Bush Junta." Both are filthy as hell with murder, torture, spying, blackmail, secrecy, lying, war profiteering, black ops, illicit business dealings and grand theft, and both are Byzantine as hell in the networks of crime that underpin their power.
A spy chief in Colombia doesn't go down merely for spying. Something else is at work, I sense. The bits and pieces we pick up here, in what passes for 'news,' and from alternative sources, point to the following items that a Colombian spy chief may well be involved in--and who is possibly being cast out as a coverup of the filth others are steeped in--someone or someones higher up (including all the way to Washington DC), to sacrifice her, or to silence her, or for some other reason we can't know (yet anyway):
1) major drug trafficking; 2) major weapons trafficking; 3) corruption re the $6 BILLION in Bushwhack military aid; 4) the concoction of the "miracle laptops" supposedly seized in the bombed out FARC camp in Ecuador (which Uribe used to make wild accusations against the presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador), and the trail on that black op and where it might lead (to the US embassy, to the head of Interpol, to Rumsfeld's private "Office of Special Plans," etc.); 5) the U.S./Colombia bombing /raid on Ecuador itself, earlier this year, and the use of U.S. high tech surveillance equipment (what ELSE is the U.S./Colombia using U.S. high tech surveillance for?)--all orchestrated from the "war room" in the U.S. embassy; 6) spying in aid of the assassinations of union leaders (more than forty this year alone) and other leftists, human rights workers, journalists, peaceful protesters, peasant farmers; 7) this Bushwhack, three-country strategy that the president of Ecuador has talked about, for funding and organizing fascist secessionist groups in Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela, to split off the oil rich provinces into fascist mini-states--a war plan, if true, that is especially perilous to Venezuela, whose oil rich state of Zulia (a fascist hotbed) sits right on the Caribbean, vulnerable the U.S. 4th Fleet, and adjacent to Colombia. 8) that charade this summer of Ingrid Bettancout's 'rescue,' with Defense Minister Santos telling his oily, sleazy lies at a Washington press conference (I heard him on C-span) about how some underling lieutenant was responsible for the Red Cross paint and gear, and the reports indicating a direct feed from the field to the U.S. embassy "war room." 9) various false flag ops--including (recently exposed) a drug operation in Colombia that was funding Hezbollah (a big Bushwhack psyops point has been that Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia are doing this--but it was in Colombia!).
Any of these things--and others we know not of--could be behind Colombia's chief intelligence officer resigning over mere spying and surveillance. As here, that is a given in Colombia. Bush, Cheney, the NSA, were/are massively spying on all of us, but especially, I think, on Democratic politicians, with complete impunity. The Uribe regime is a mirror to the Bush regime--and, in at least one case we know of, uses US high tech surveillance equipment and systems. A difference may be that Colombia has a few courageous politicians who dare to speak the truth.
It could be that the way the spying was uncovered--how the docs got out, and who was involved in that--indicates a grave leak in the Uribe apparatus; more is coming, and Hurtado will be a convenient dumping ground for blame. Where are the fiery denials, lies and counter-accusations, so typical of Uribe and his regime? They are responding to this with too much equanimity.
Anyway, my little tinfoil antennae are waving wildly on this one.
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