Former Colombian prosecution officials extradited to the US
Former Colombian prosecution officials extradited to the US
posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson
May 23, 2013
Two fired Colombian prosecution officials on Wednesday have been extradited to the United States for selling classified information to drug traffickers, local media reported Wednesday.
The two individuals, a man and a woman, worked for the international office of Colombia’s prosecutor general. They are accused of using their access to classified information to warn prominent drug traffickers about ongoing investigations of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
The ex-officials were arrested on Colombian territory in November last year. On Thursday, Colombia’s W Radio reported both had been called to appear before a New York City judge.
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Ties between corrupt members of Colombian authorities are not uncommon. The security chief of former President Alvaro Uribe is in a U.S. prison for leaking information to drug trafficking organization “Oficina de Envigado” and three members of the military were arrested Wednesday while trafficking 300 kilos of cocaine allegedly belonging to drug lord “Megateo.”
More:
http://colombiareports.com/former-officials-extradited-to-the-us-for-aiding-drug-traffickers/
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Generally, my educated guess about Alvaro Uribe and the Bush Junta--that they were using the U.S. "war on drugs" billions of taxpayer dollars, the Colombian military and the executive branch of the Colombian government, to consolidate the cocaine trade into fewer hands and better direct its trillion-plus dollar revenue to stream to anointed beneficiaries--gets more educated every day.
Mystery no. 1: What does this have to do with New York? Why is a New York judge giving out orders about Colombian criminals? Why are Colombian criminals being extradited to the U.S.? Where will they be imprisoned and who will have access to them?
The article doesn't provide info on this New York angle. (What case? What court? Which judge? Which prosecutors? State? Federal? Is Eric Holder behind it? What's going on here? I guess I'll have to do some Google searches.)
Mystery no. 2: Again, why--as to the following?: "The security chief of former President Alvaro Uribe is in a U.S. prison for leaking information to drug trafficking organization “Oficina de Envigado”..."
People who have potentially incriminating information about Uribe (and thus possibly about the Bush Junta) keep getting extradited to, and imprisoned in, the U.S. (or else get CIA-guaranteed, instant asylum in Panama, i.e., Uribe's spy chief Maria Hurtado).
What I suspect is that U.S. officials are sifting through these Uribe-related cases in Colombia, and pulling out anybody whose testimony could put Uribe in jail, for fear of Uribe ratting on Bush Junta officials. At the least, it's likely that U.S. (Bush Junta) embassy officials were helping Uribe with his illegal domestic spying (and drawing up his hit lists), but there may be more still, including U.S. military or U.S. military contractor involvement in murdering Colombian civilians, in massacres, and in training death squads "for use in Iraq and Afghanistan" (Blackwater was quietly fined for this, by the U.S. (Clinton) State Department, but they just said "training," not death squad training, and they alleged that it had been "unauthorized"
, and U.S. involvement in weapons trafficking, in weapons testing, in military strategy testing, in filthy military contractor corruption and in the cocaine trade.
This article piques my interest but it is also frustrating. There are also NO NAMES, to make searches easier. Well, here goes. I'll see what I can find out.
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Found a fascinating article about U.S. prosecutors and DEA agents who turned against the "war on drugs" and have become defense lawyers for these drug traffickers who keep getting extradited to the U.S.
Aha! This article mentions what may be one of the Colombian prosecutors in the OP: ("He" is Robert Feitel, DOJ narc turned defense lawyer.)
He (Feitel) fought "tooth and nail" for Ramiro Anturi, a Colombian prosecutor accused of leaking information to traffickers. Anturi received an unexpectedly light sentence – 55 months despite the DEA trumpeting the case as evidence it would "not tolerate any acts that put our agents' lives in jeopardy".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/27/us-drugs-prosecutors-defending-traffickers
The unnamed prosecutor-criminals in the OP were arrested last November. This article is dated May of this year. Anturi has already been tried, convicted and sentenced--so I don't know for sure if Anturi is the man of "the man and woman" mentioned in the OP.
There are some "wheels within wheels' here for sure. This article about narcs turned defense lawyers is by Rory Carroll, the notorious liar about Chavez and other LatAm leftists. Wonder what he's up to here. Possibly shilling for the Big Pharma monopoly plan (via legalization), which seems to be the new rightwing "thing" in LatAm. Feitel strongly favors legalization and Carroll lets him present strong arguments for it in his own words.
Deep dark wheels within deep dark wheels.
Can't help but think of all the money involved--trillions, all told, for the "war on drugs," trillions in illicit cocaine profits, potential trillions in legalization monopolies of herbal, recreational and addictive drugs, and now these former narcs are cleaning up as defense lawyers for the rich drug traffickers they used to throw in jail. Nice racket.
Why is Rory Carroll promoting them?
I believe everyone deserves a defense. I am very much for legalization, Big Pharma or no Big Pharma. But I don't trust Carroll one bit.
And who do we have promoting legalization--rightwingers, Santos in Colombia, even one rightwing monster, Perez Molina in Guatemala (committed genocide), and narcs.
On my suspicions about the Bush Junta: Are deals going down for these extradited Colombian drug traffickers to keep their lips sealed?
Every time now that I see a big drug bust in the news, I think of who in the illicit drug trade might be benefiting by that person or organization being taken down, or that particular cache of drugs, money and other property being confiscated. And I don't mean petty corruption (drug agents stealing stuff, for instance). I'm thinking Big Picture. Who are the beneficiary drug lords? And who are their banksters? And who are they paying for protection and for the elimination of their rivals?
Cuz I really think that's what Uribe was doing in Colombia, with our billions of taxpayer dollars for the "war on drugs"--eliminating his rivals. I think he was supported in this by the Bush Junta, among other crimes. And I think crimes like this, with trillions of dollars at stake, are occurring here, too.
Well, I haven't made much headway on what's going down with these extraditions. But I'll have to call it a night.
Thanks for the OP. It got me to unearth this new angle on Rory Carroll.
