Lead investigator resigns from Uribe wiretapping case

[Judi Lynn]

Lead investigator resigns from Uribe wiretapping case
Wednesday, 04 May 2011 14:47
Jim Glade

The lead investigator in the case regarding former President Alvaro Uribe's alleged involvement in the administration's illegal wiretapping scandal renounced his post on Wednesday.

Conservative Party Congressman Alfredo Bocanegra, former head of the Congressional Committee of Accusations, said his decision to depart from the investigation was not motivated by personal threats.

He went on to explain, "I prefer to recuperate my critical independence in Congress to push forward big themes of political control, than to remain silent with the pretext that I am an investigator of one of the many charges put forth against Uribe."

"I will not renounce my critical independence," said the Tolima congressman.

In late March, Uribe called the investigator and chastised him for comments the congressman made in a Tolima newspaper regarding the investigation.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/16040-lead-investigator-for-uribes-suspected-wiretap-involvement-drops-out-.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. He says investigating Uribe turned him into "a mental case." Wow!

"Remaining coordinator of the wiretap investigation is making me a mental case and a verbal hostage because the phenomenon of the wiretaps is serious, aberrant and unjustifiable," said the former leader of the congressional investigation. --from the OP

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Don't know if this is good or bad (maybe another investigator will be more effective) but it certainly is revealing of Uribe's M.O. (i.e., 'Absolve me or we kill your wife.'). The trouble with "We need to look forward not backward" is that it leaves criminals like Uribe, and Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, free to threaten and even assassinate anybody who doesn't go along with "the deal" and of course free to try to maneuver themselves back into power, as well as simply enjoying life and the spoils of war.

They teach that at Harvard.