Colombia's Congress investigates ex-president Uribe

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia's Congress investigates ex-president Uribe
Published on : 13 October 2010 - 10:21am

The Colombian Congress opened an investigation Tuesday into former president Alvaro Uribe's alleged role in an illegal wiretapping case that has already snared top officials, a senior legislator said.

Uribe ended his 2002-2010 administration on August 7 with sky-high approval ratings, but has been heavily criticized by human rights activists for a series of alleged abuses.

A lower house committee approved opening an investigation into the wiretapping case and "will investigate what responsibility ex-president Alvaro Uribe had in this affair," said the chamber vice president, Orlando Clavijo'.

Uribe said recently he was ready to assume legal and political responsibility for the actions of Bernardo Moreno -- his chief of staff from 2006 to 2010 -- who prosecutors sanctioned for not denouncing a case of illegal espionage by the DAS, Colombia's intelligence service, on opposition judges and reporters.

More:
http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/article/colombias-congress-investigates-ex-president-uribe

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1. What this story does NOT say

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The lower House commission is called the Comisión de Acusaciones (Accusations Commission). It is packed with uribistas so this smacks of a mere smokescreen.

I predict that the commission will go through the motions, find no merit to the charges and archive the case.

Business as usual in Colombia in regards to the teflon president uribe.