Comments on: John McCain, George Bush’s Bagman

By: dosido

dosido — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:50:51 +0000

I tell ya, this trip to Colombia was all about the Three Amigos trying extraordinary rendition for themselves…so comfy! What’s the big deal about a free trip to foreign countries?

Either that, or McCain was simply trying to win votes by leaving the country, period.

By: brendanx

brendanx — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:15:57 +0000

Why were Lieberman and Graham with him (no off-color answers)?

By: skdadl

skdadl — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:13:06 +0000

Well yes, I get that part. But it is the decision to investigate that surprised me. Especially on this turf, wouldn’t it take someone of somewhat elevated status in the DoJ to decide to move ahead with this?

Apparently this has been going on since November. I really am slow.

By: JThomason

JThomason — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:58:27 +0000

If the New York Federal District Court can assert jurisdiction over Russian citizen Viktor Bout for contacts in Curacao, Copenhagen, Bucharest and Thailand arising from a deal with Columbian revolutionary agents with no suggestion of any act by a US citizen or on US territory, I would think jurisdiction could be asserted against agents of a US firm in a territory occupied by the US who are US citizens.

By: skdadl

skdadl — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:36:47 +0000

O/T: re Blackwater. I probably should have known this but I guess it passed me by (so much does). Did we know that there is a federal grand jury investigating the Blackwater shooting spree in Baghdad last September that ended up killing 17 Iraqis, including the little boy in that BBC story?

I’ve just been running on the assumption that no one knows how to rein in the private contractors effectively (or no one dares to). So where did that grand jury come from?

By: yellowsnapdragon

yellowsnapdragon — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:28:24 +0000

Boy oh boy do I agree about the bona fides of the three DEA stooges. There were pictures to prove their FARC credentials. Fishy indeed.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:22:16 +0000

Yikes — the interface ate my {/snark} logo…

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:21:41 +0000

Why does the bit about uranium sound like a Rendon Group provocation?

Oh, come now.
You know they’re pillars of integrity.
You must have misread.

By: JThomason

JThomason — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:49:15 +0000

My head is spinning:

And evidence found in the raid suggests that Chavez recently gave the FARC $300 million, Colombia’s national police chief said Monday.

Speaking at a news conference, Gen. Oscar Naranjo said evidence in three seized computers also suggests FARC had given Chavez 100 million pesos when he was a jailed rebel leader.

Naranjo said other evidence in the computers suggests FARC purchased 50 kilograms of uranium this month.

CNN.

Why does the bit about uranium sound like a Rendon Group provocation? And I think I am finally getting the fact that the FARC references in the Bout complaint were part of the sting but why would have Bout dealt unless he had some confidence in the FARC bona fides of CS-1, CS-2 and CS-3? There is no news on the fate of Rosario Spadaro and Youssef Nada has a web site proclaiming his innocence and is suing Swiss authorities for implicating him as a AQ financier.

By: yellowsnapdragon

yellowsnapdragon — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:43:02 +0000

Not to mention he got caught with fake Argentinian papers in 2000.