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| Judge To Decide If Prosecutorial Misconduct In Trial Of Former CIA Agent |
| 2011-02-15 |
| U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone is expected to rule Tuesday on the request for a mistrial in the trial of Luis Posada Carriles, an 83-year-old native of Cuba who was a CIA operative from 1964 until 1976. The Justice Department is trying very hard to convict him allegations that he lied while seeking U.S. citizenship during immigration hearings in El Paso, making false statements about how he sneaked into the U.S. in March 2005, and failed to confess to a series of 1997 bombings in Cuba that would have precluded his receiving citizenship, based on a New York Times interview that he later recanted. The DoJ actually believes what the NYT publishes? Officially he is charged with perjury, obstruction and immigration fraud charges. The government of Cuba regards him as its greatest enemy, and Venezuela also wants to execute him, but a U.S. immigration judge has previously ruled he can't be sent to either country for fear he would be tortured and killed. His defense attorneys have taken issue with the testimony of Lt. Col. Roberto Hernandez Caballero, who testified at the trial about the 1997 bombings of hotels in Havana and the Cuban beach resort of Varadero for jurors last week. So now we're giving credence to the testimony of an intelligence agent of a country that wants the defendant killed. Brilliant. Hernandez Caballero has testified twice before in separate U.S. court proceedings, including a federal hijacking case in Tampa, Florida. He said then that he was a member of the Cuba's Interior ministry and counter-intelligence agency. During Posada's trial, however, Hernandez Caballero said only that he was an investigator. The Cuban counter-intelligence agency has been known to fabricate evidence against American Cubans opposed to the communist regime. They've been known to fabricate evidence whenever and however El Jefe wanted it fabricated. Some American Cubans have been assassinated by them as well. In this case they provided some 6,000 pages of information that could be used by the prosecution. Posada's defense team says it found out late about Hernandez Caballero's real job description because prosecutors delayed providing the transcript of his testimony in the Florida case. This is a pattern for US prosecutors. Same nonsense in the Alaska Stephens case. It's time for some federal attorneys to be disbarred. Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Reardon called the request for a mistrial "an extraordinary and ridiculous motion." The defense motion also referred to two previously classified FBI reports it says prosecutors also were slow to turn over that they assert exonerate their client from accusations of wrongdoing. The second report warned that Posada could be the target of an assassination attempt by the Cuban government. Posada was shot in the face by would-be assassins in Guatemala in 1990. Posada is a survivor of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, and later served as head of intelligence for Venezuela's government. A Venezuelan military court dismissed charges against him when he was tried by a later government, but he escaped from prison and fled Venezuela before a civilian court could convict him as an enemy of the new regime. He was arrested in Panama in 2000 in a plot to kill Castro during a summit there. He was pardoned in 2004 before turning up in the U.S. Posada has been living in Miami since his 2007 release from an immigration detention center in El Paso, and has been a target of the American left for many years. Further information about the trial. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #1 Posada qualifies as a Hague Convention Refugee. Cuba's perverse justice system qualifies them as a persecutor of any returnee who allegedly acted against the regime. Fraudulent Misrepresentation on an application can be justified, if done to prevent persecution. In fact, all illegals omitted to swear the statutory declaration needed for entry. Let this go, Libs. |
| Posted by: Ebbaising the Wicked2761 2011-02-15 18:17 |