Colombia Refuses to “Look Forward”

By: emptywheel Wednesday January 12, 2011 8:42 am

In Colombia, apparently, you get arrested when you oversee illegal domestic wiretapping. Colombia’s Prosecutor General ordered the arrest of Jorge Noguera, a former director of Colombia’s state intelligence agency DAS, for the his alleged involvement in the illegal spying on government opponents. Noguera, who was director of the DAS between 2002 and 2006, is suspected [...]

US Paramilitaries in Colombia: Now Twice as Illegal

By: emptywheel Friday August 20, 2010 9:40 am

Remember that Jeremy Scahill report that listed Colombia among the 75 places where JSOC has deployed? The Nation has learned from well-placed special operations sources that among the countries where elite special forces teams working for the Joint Special Operations Command have been deployed under the Obama administration are: Iran, Georgia, Ukraine, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, [...]

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