DAS wiretapped European Parliament

[rabs]

The Europeans are gonna be pissed.

Of course alvarito knew nothing of this, although the DAS reports directly to him. :shrug:
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Colombian intelligence agency DAS illegally wiretapped and infiltrated European organizations, including the continent's parliament, as part of a smear campaign, reported broadcaster RCN on Wednesday.

Newly revealed parts of the judicial dossier on DAS wiretapping operations reveals that European organizations were targeted in order to undermine the influence of the European justice system.

According to the revealed files, the European Parliamentary committee on human rights, the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights and national governments. these agencies were deemed a threat to the Colombian government.

The strategy of "Operation Europe" was to discredit such entities by creating press releases, website reports and by waging legal battles against them. DAS members attended NGO seminars, workshops and forums to compile confidential reports which included photographs and films of attendees.

The possibility of wiretaps by U.S. entities is also being investigated.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/9279-das-wiretapped-european-parliament.html

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Things are unraveling fast for alvarito, now that he has become the lamest of lame ducks.

:woohoo:

P.S. RCN radio and TV network were among the most rabid supporters of alvarito. But now they have turned like rabid dogs on him. At one time, RCN was known as "Radio Casa Nariño" because of its unabashed love affair with uribito.

(In case "Casa de Nariño" is unfamilar to anyone, it is the name of the presidential palace.)

[EFerrari]

1. LOL. "Who do you think you are, Pancho Villa?"

-- Milagro Bean Field War

How does one retire if one is alvarito?

[rabs]

2. alvarito will retire ....

to the Republic of Botswana if he is lucky and does not wind up in the Colombian equivalent of a hoosegow (from Spanish "juzgado") I recently learned.) :-)

Meantime, I bet certain folks in Washington are doing this about now re Colombia and The Seven Bases and Plan Colombia and such ....

[Wilms]

3. .

[EFerrari]

4. . . .

:rofl:

[Judi Lynn]

5. Rabs and Wilms, superb illustrations. The best.

It would seem the ONLY reason they would be spying on individual people would be for leverage in blackmailing them into full blown support for Uribe's vicious regime:

The strategy of "Operation Europe" was to discredit such entities by creating press releases, website reports and by waging legal battles against them. DAS members attended NGO seminars, workshops and forums to compile confidential reports which included photographs and films of attendees.

One would have thought THIS kind of attempt to pressure individual people went out with World War II, or at least the Cold War.

Such an underhanded, uncivilized, dishonest way of doing things. Wouldn't it be smarter to simply run a cleaner government, following cleaner principles? Guess that's out of the question around criminals like these.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Recommending #3. Thanks for the chance to learn about this.

It won't be getting wide coverage here, as we know.