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The Blog for Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Posada - Where's "Jeb!"?

    "Judge denies bond for Cuban militant, seeks Bay of Pigs opinion".

    What is "Jeb!" up to on this? As the Washington Post recently reported, "Jeb!" has a history of helping "terrorists":

    [convicted terrorist Orlando] Bosch was allowed to leave Venezuela not long after then-U.S. ambassador Otto Reich voiced concerns about his safety in a series of cables to the State Department. He flew to Miami in December 1987 without a visa and was promptly arrested. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh described Bosch as an "unreformed terrorist," who should be deported. But Bosch had a powerful advocate in Jeb Bush, who at that time was managing the campaign of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the first Cuban exile to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In an unusual presidential intercession on behalf of a convicted terrorist, President George H.W. Bush overruled the FBI and the Justice Department and in 1990 approved the release of Bosch, who won U.S. residency two years later.

    Posada is gambling that he will have Bosch's luck and is banking on the same supporters. ...

    [Posada and his confederates] are not the only unsavory characters to be given the red carpet in Miami. Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ros-Lehtinen, with the backing of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, wrote letters on behalf of several exile militants held in U.S. prisons for acts of political violence. Some were released in 2001, including Jose Dionisio Suarez Esquivel and Virgilio Paz Romero, both convicted for the notorious 1976 car bomb-murder of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his American assistant Ronnie Moffitt, in Washington. Once released, instead of being deported like other non-citizen criminals, they have been allowed to settle into the good life in Miami.
    "Our Man's in Miami. Patriot or Terrorist?"

    So, is "Jeb!" working to assist Posada as well? Has a reporter asked "Jeb!" if he supports Posada's release, like he supported the release of "unreformed terrorist" Bosch and convicted car bomb-murderers Esquivel and Romero?

7:06 AM

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