Thread: Tancredo: The Colorado conspiracy has collapsed

The Colorado conspiracy has collapsed
by Tom Tancredo
Posted: December 19, 2009
1:00 am Eastern

© 2009

Sometimes, against all odds, the good guys win. It can even happen in politics.

This past week the Obama administration's nominee for the post of U.S. attorney for Colorado, Stephanie Villafuerte, withdrew her name and quietly retreated to her current job as deputy chief of staff to the governor of Colorado. By withdrawing her name, she avoids having to answer questions under oath about events in 2006 involving Gov. Bill Ritter and friends in the office of Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey.

Villafuerte has steadfastly refused to answer reporters' questions about those 2006 events, so the prospect of answering them under oath in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was not pleasant. Yet, her escape may be temporary.

The spotlight will stay on Villafuerte because the vendetta against Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Cory Voorhis – launched by her boss, Bill Ritter, in October of 2006 – continues. Villafuerte's role in that conspiracy will ultimately be uncovered as that story unfolds through depositions and new testimony in administrative hearings. Perjury charges against Villafuerte and individuals in the Denver district attorney's office are one possibility.

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As Shakespeare would put it, the truth will out. The only way the whole truth about the Democrat conspiracy against Voorhis can be suppressed would be for the federal government to reach a settlement
with Voorhis prior to his Jan. 26 hearing before an administrative law judge at the Merit System Protection Board. For that to happen, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano would have to show more smarts than her predecessor and order her managers at ICE to settle Voorhis' complaint and drop that agency's vendetta. The reason that is unlikely to happen is that the managers at ICE have too much invested in punishing Voorhis for his actions in October 2006.

What did Voorhis do that is so unforgivable? He told the truth about scandalous plea bargains offered to criminal aliens in the Denver district attorney's office when Bill Ritter was D.A., and he told the truth in a very public way. That's a no-no in the eyes of the federal agency that can't find the manpower or the will power to actually deport all criminal aliens from our local jails and prisons.

The federal government first tried to put Voorhis in jail by charging him with "exceeding his level of authorized access" to a federal criminal database. A jury found him not guilty of that charge or any other crime, so the managers at ICE then tried to fire him. ICE cannot admit that an ICE agent performed a public service by bringing those plea-bargaining practices to light. Heaven forbid that ICE agents in Phoenix or Seattle or Detroit should begin talking to congressmen or to the public about such things!

DHS could settle the Voorhis case easily by reinstating him to his GS-13 position, giving him his back pay and then transferring him out of Denver to another field office. Maybe Chicago? Probably there is not much corruption in the Chicago field office of ICE, right? So, maybe El Paso? OK, maybe not El Paso. The inspector general at DHS has launched a full probe of corruption in that ICE office related to the famed "House of Death" in Ciudad Juarez. Oh, did I mention that the internal affairs investigator who spearheaded the agency vendetta against Voorhis came form the El Paso office? Folks, I swear, we can't make this stuff up.

So, what do we have here? Can it be true that the managers of the agency that can't find the time or resources to actually enforce our immigration laws, who can't audit even 1 percent of the employers in Colorado who are employing over 250,000 illegal workers, who can't identify and deport criminal aliens unless and until they commit a violent crime that makes news – can it be true that these exemplars of integrity and professionalism nonetheless can find the time and resources to persecute not an ordinary ICE agent but an outstanding senior criminal investigator who handled the largest document fraud case in the agency's history?

Janet Napolitano should ask that question of her appointee, DHS Assistant Secretary for ICE John Morton. If he is smart enough to figure out the right answer, Cory Voorhis may yet get his job back. If not, the public will soon learn a lot more about the Denver ICE house gang that couldn't shoot straight.

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Sometimes, against all odds, the good guys win. It can even happen in politics

We need to make sure it happens more often, our country and way of life is at stake!!!

Ya' know, the only reason for this kind of bullshine to continue, has got to be that politicians and a lot of the people who are charged with protecting this nation are on "the take".

The same for the illegal narcotics trafficing. There have got to be people getting paid off to look the other way or to sabotage efforts to stop it. A good example is the prodution and distribution of things like LSD back in the 60s. LSD was invented by the government, and the CIA was in charge of it as they had the only known stocks of it. It was tested as a truth serum, and found inadiquite to that end, yet it is and was an illegal drug, yet how did it end up on the streets if the CIA was the only entity in possession of the supply of this narcotic? So how did it get out on the streets if the government was in possession of the lone supply of it, and the chemicals used to make it?

So, to me the pieces of the puzzle are a combination of narcotics trafficing that has to paying people at the top handsomely, along with others throughout the network, and the illegal border crossers that "mule" it in, are protected from prosecution, but the other side effect is the rest of the illegal border crossers that know they will not be hassled or have a very low chance of getting caught as the whole system is rotten to the core with corruption. All the way from the local dagcatcher up to the president.

I'm not pointing the finger at everybody, as there are still honorable people like Cory Voorhis, but they are a blemish on a justice and political system that is nothing more than a mafia styled regime that cares nothing about the people they are charged with protecting from injustice; but are more concerned about the profits they can make over and above their salaries by "just playing ball" with the right people. So agents like Voorhis are thorns in their side and get booted at the first opportunity. There's only one reason for this to happen, is that enough corrupt people have infiltrated the system at various levels, and work independently to cover for each other, so as not to give the perception of a conspiratorial effort against the people and the Republic. Also it has the added benefit that if things like this do surface, anyone mentioning the word conspiracy can be ridiculed and made to look like a crackpot, or kook, etc, etc, etc.