Lawyers accuse US of entrapping anti-Castro agent

Lawyers accuse US of entrapping anti-Castro agent
By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press
Tue Jan 18, 3:35 pm ET

.El PASO, Texas – Lawyers for a former CIA agent charged with perjury and other offences grilled a government attorney on Tuesday, suggesting she only granted their client an immigration hearing because she was helping federal prosecutors gather evidence they could use to bring criminal charges against him.

Gina Garrett-Jackson, a Miami-based attorney for the Department of Homeland Security, testified that federal authorities were considering pressing charges against anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles even as they prepared to interrogate him during an immigration hearing in 2005.

Posada, 82, is charged with 11 counts of perjury, obstruction and naturalization fraud — accused of making false statements under oath during immigration interviews in El Paso, after he sneaked into the United States and sought political asylum. Prosecutors say he lied about how he reached American soil and failed to acknowledge his role in 1997 Cuban hotel bombings.

Garrett-Jackson questioned Posada during those immigration proceedings over three days in August 2005, and defense attorneys contend that she knew Posada wouldn't be granted asylum but allowed him to submit to the hearing so that federal prosecutors could gather evidence against him.

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in Miami, and no more harassment from Cuba and Venezuela, wanting to prosecute him for the airplane bombing horror. He probably expected the U.S. to protect him just like they're protecting that other U.S. asset, Alvaro Uribe. But guess who shows up as he tries to slip in? The FBI, the DOJ. They don't care about him blowing Cubans and Venezuelans to smithereens. But they DO care about his "papers." They can't prosecute him for the bombing, cuz they'd have to prosecute CIA and big Bush Cartel players. That's a no-no. But do they even want to convict him on his "papers"? Did they taint it, and was it on purpose?

Hard to say what will happen. Could be a show trial, for Hillary's song and dance in Latin America, with a token prison term or no prison term--just straight to that condo and freedom to party with the Miami mafia. Or could be a little inter-agency war going on.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert.

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

--W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"

I vote for:

inter-agency strife

then

Hillary token gesture to Latin America and Cuba, especially with the latest softening of regs on travel