I believe that the CIA has strong motivation to protect Alvaro Uribe, so they may be involved in stealing and deep-sixing evidence that could implicate him. It's not that Uribe's own crime mob couldn't be disappearing evidence. It's the sort of thing they do. (Hell, Uribe's spy operation was spying on prosecutors and justices!) But the CIA's motivations may be strong, too. I suspect that the CIA's motives would have to do with what Uribe's knows about CIA and Bush Junta crimes in Colombia.

I was astounded when Uribe got cushy academic sinecures at Harvard and Georgetown, and got appointed by the U.S. government to a prestigious international legal commission, during Obama's first term. I could grasp that Obama--("we need to look forward not backward" on the crimes of the very rich and powerful)--had a deal of some kind with the Bushwhacks, a deal that maybe included an important Bush operative like Uribe (--a no investigation, no prosecution deal.) But to give Uribe HONORS and PERKS, not to mention a PLATFORM for fascist warmongering and politicking--this criminal with close ties to drug trafficking and death squads from the very beginning of his career! That seemed a bit much.

So I thought about it. Why? Clearly, the Obamaites didn't want him to be president of Colombia any more. That's why Panetta went to Colombia as almost his first action as CIA Director under (under?) Obama. Uribe is too obviously dirty for U.S. "free trade for the rich." But there's more to it than that, and my guess is a CIA (and other agency?) drug trafficking coverup, crimes of the Pentagon, Blackwater and others in Colombia to cover up, and Bush Junta crimes in Colombia to cover up (for instance, the U.S. embassy/Bush Junta was very likely helping Uribe to spy on judges, prosecutors and others). Some of these crimes probably include murder, possibly even mass murder. Uribe may well have info on U.S. crimes in Colombia and used it to get himself a teaching spot at Harvard Law School and these other perks. He may also have bought himself CIA help in getting rid of evidence.

I have long suspected that the CIA helped him get Maria Hurtado, one of his spy chiefs wanted by Colombian prosecutors, out of Colombia and into (instant, overnight) asylum in Panama, a couple of years ago. She is now back in Colombia and testifying, I seem to have read, but I certainly wonder what happened in the interim, i.e., what did SHE know, that they maybe wanted to have a lengthy conversation with her outside of Colombia while under their protection? Or did they just let her sit there and think about things? (Naw, I think they would require positive assurances of silence on certain matters.)

There's a photo somewhere of Uribe, Bush Jr. and Bush Sr., hanging out together at somebody's mansion in a Latin American resort area, a few years after Panetta scotched Uribe's plan to extend his term of office (bribery of legislators was involved). Sure would like to have been a fly among the bougainvillea at that meeting!