Colombia's DAS-Gate continues; target this time was U.S. Embassy attache

[rabs]

(Uribito caught the swine flu in Bariloche last week at the UNASUR conference. With this, he will come down with a bad case of diarrhea when he has to explain to the U.S. ambassador.)
:nopity:

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Last Monday, U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield was listening to a radio station in Bogota when the station aired a private telephone call made by his legal attache, James Faulkner, to Judge Ivan Valasquez, a Colombian Supreme Court justice.

"It worried me hearing the voice of my legal attache on a wiretap," Brownfield said. :rofl:

Brownfield later on says tries to limit his telephone conversations as much as possible, and that he prefers face-to-face conversations because "we like to think that when we speak by telephone, we talk with certain pivacy."

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“Me preocupó escuchar la voz de mi agregado judicial en una llamada chuzada” embajador Brownfield
Viernes 4 Septiembre 2009

El embajador de Estados Unidos en Colombia, William Brownfield, dijo este viernes a los medios de comunicación que “admito cierta preocupación el lunes de esta semana cuando escuchaba en la radio la voz de mi agregado judicial hablando con un funcionario judicial de la república de Colombia en lo que evidentemente fue una chuzada".

El diplomático se refería a esta conversación revelada por Semana en la que Iván Velásquez, el magistrado auxiliar de la Corte Suprema de Justicia que investiga la parapolítica habla con James Faulkner, de la embajada norteamericana

Brownfield dijo que, no tiene conclusiones sobre el tema de las interceptaciones ilegales en Colombia y que “trato de limitar mis conversaciones telefónicas tanto que sea posible. Para mí es mucho mejor hablar cara a cara en vez de hablar por teléfono, pero por supuesto en Estados Unidos como en cualquier país del mundo nos gusta pensar que cuando hablamos por teléfono sí hablamos con cierta privacidad”.

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You can hear the conversation here (Spanish). Faulkner initiates the call and he discusses with the judge arranging the delivery by the judge of unidentified legal documents to Faulkner.

http://www.semana.com/multimedia-nacion/conversacion-entre-magistrado-auxiliar-ivan-velasquez-james-faulkner/2374.aspx

Semana:

http://www.semana.com/noticias-seguridad/preocupo-escuchar-voz-agregado-judicial-llamada-chuzada-embajador-brownfield/128249.aspx

[Judi Lynn]

1. That's fantastic. Wish we could have been there to see Brownfield's face.

It seems to stand to reason that one of these days Uribe is finally going to run out of Teflon, and he's going to start having to explain some of these underhanded and criminal acts of his.

I hope it all blows up: his spying on his Supreme Court and lawmakers from the oposition, union leaders, human rights activists, etc. Too much more negative attention like this could make him more valuable dead than alive.

[Peace Patriot]

2. If I were Uribe, I'd keep tabs on Brownfield, too.

Cuz that fuckwad wants former Defense Minister Santos (the Donald Rumsfeld of South America) as 'president' of Colombia--is my guess. Santos is chafing at the bit to invade Venezuela and Ecuador, kill all the leftists and take the oil on behalf of Exxon Mobil & brethren.

Uribe at least has somewhat divided loyalties--to keep his drug networks going, to fend off increasingly dangerous investigations into his death squad and other dirty ties, and to keep his US handlers happy (inviting the US military to occupy seven military bases in Colombia), while trying to assure other South American leaders that Colombia doesn't intend to invade them, and keeping up appearances as a leader who is at least willing to talk to them. Santos, on the other hand, is a Rumsfeldian: kill first, kill big, don't talk. "Shock and awe." Freedom = the freedom to loot. Chaos = opportunity.

And I have little doubt that Brownfield is a main operative of the plan for Oil War II-South America, designed by Donald Rumsfeld.

I have a certain weird kind of sympathy for Uribe in this circumstance--the way one might sympathize with a plague-infested rat as it drowned in a whirlpool. You ponder its desperate little rat's eyes, its claws helplessly trying to gain purchase on the water, its rat's legs kicking, frantically trying to swim, as the "O" of the whirlpool sucks it down. Poor thing, it can't help having the plague; and it is justified in spreading disease, in its own light. It is just being itself. I would almost like it to survive, if it could help prevent Oil War II.

Not that it would. But still. I see why Uribe would want to tap Brownfield, or get a tap as close to him as possible. He wants some notice for when they decide to drop their rat into the water.