News What’s With the Justice Department These Days?
posted by on May 10 at 16:25 PM
No, I’m not talking about the firings, I’m talking about this:
On Tuesday, the sole prosecution brought by Washington against the Cuban-born Posada, an immigration fraud charge, was quashed by a federal judge in Texas, leaving a man branded by the U.S. Justice Department as “a dangerous criminal and an admitted mastermind of terrorist plots” free to roam a country he entered illegally and from which another court has ordered him deported.
His (alleged) dangerous crimes? Bombing hotels, which he’s bragged about. Blowing up a plane, killing almost 100 people.
Jesus Christ—wasn’t that the whole argument for passing the goddamned Patriot Act in the first place? And the center of gravity for the hysteria about illegal immigration? The fear of undocumented, mass-murdering criminals waltzing around the country?
National Security Archive project director Peter Kornbluh attributes the U.S. government’s failure to win a conviction against Posada to Washington’s apparent complicity in some of Posada’s alleged criminal acts. Prosecutors’ efforts to banish any mention of his CIA service from the immigration case were “a reflection of real concern about details of past operations that might get thrown into the trial,” said Kornbluh, who oversees the George Washington University-based project aimed at disclosing past CIA operations.
Oh.
And yet, if you were to publicly suggest, prior to the details of Posada's case becoming public knowledge, that the CIA had been using American tax dollars to fund terrorism, you would have been labelled a crazy conspiracy theorist. In fact, if you suggest it two days from now when everybody has completely forgotten this story ever happened, you'll still be labelled a crazy conspiracy theorist.
In other news, did you hear about Paris Hilton? It's kind of a big deal.
He killed the Cuban national fencing team with that plane he blew up.
Or as real Americans call them "Enemy weapons experts".
He will cease to exist before anything he's done for the CIA will ever get exposed.
monkey@4: no shit. This dude is about to become Seriously Accident-Prone.
Actually, much of what this guy has done has been reported in the past year (The Atlantic had a long article in November http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200611/cuba. Especially interesting: the Bush family's intervention on behalf of one of his cronies).
He was a CIA hit man/fixer all over Latin America since the 1950s. He was with Pinochet in Chile and the Contras in Nicaragua. El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, and Venezuela too. Anywhere our right-wing puppets needed somebody killed.
The flamboyant, fanatical anti-Castro terrorism against Cubans was sort of extracuricular(and probably cost him a sweet retirement courtesy of the USA).
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