<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cd5078c8-424b-44ed-89da-485a564e36ae/785BEC9B-6D1A-4346-9F88-77114886F610/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/world/americas/17colombia.html?_r=1#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/world/americas/17colombia.html?_r=1#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/world/americas/17colombia.html?_r=1#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> A Scandal Over Spying Intensifies in Colombia </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/world/americas/17colombia.html?_r=1#"><P>BOGOTÁ, <A title="More news and information about Colombia." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/colombia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Colombia</A> — President Álvaro Uribe, the top ally of the United States in Latin America, is enmeshed in a scandal over growing evidence that his main intelligence agency carried out an extensive illegal spying operation focused on his leading critics, including members of the Supreme Court, opposition politicians, human rights workers and journalists. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/world/americas/17colombia.html?_r=1#">Semana, a respected news magazine, obtained <A title="Audio of the conversation (in Spanish)" href="http://www.semana.com/multimedia-nacion/conversacion-entre-magistrado-auxiliar-ivan-velasquez-james-faulkner/2374.aspx">an intercept of a routine phone call</A> between James Faulkner, the embassy’s legal attaché, and a Supreme Court justice investigating <A title="Human Rights Watch letter detailing concerns" href="http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/06/26/colombia-obama-should-press-uribe-rights">ties of Mr. Uribe’s political supporters to paramilitary death squads</A>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/world/americas/17colombia.html?_r=1#">accusations against Mr. Uribe’s first DAS director, Jorge Noguera, are the most serious. He is charged with <A title="Semana article, in English" href="http://www.semana.com/noticias-print-edition/spy-chief-accused-of-murder/123929.aspx">organizing the murders of three trade union activists and a well-known sociologist</A>, Alfredo Correa d’Andreis. The charges are based on reports that under his leadership, DAS gave paramilitary leaders their names on an assassination list. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/785BEC9B-6D1A-4346-9F88-77114886F610/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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