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Colombia's DAS carried out 'political warfare' against journalist
Documents posted to the Center of International Policy's "Plan Colombia and Beyond" blog indicate that the Department of Administrative Security in Colombia coordinated an attack of "political warfare" against independent journalist Hollman Morris.
The Colombian prosecutor's office released documents from the country's Department of Administrative Security (DAS, in Spanish; the Colombian equivalent of the FBI) to Morris, who gave them to the Center of International Policy and authorized their publication on the organization's Web site.
The DAS' tactics included the initiation of an "international smear campaign" involving "communiques," "inclusion in a FARC video" and initiating the suspension of Morris' U.S. visa, the documents show.
An investigation published by the Colombian weekly magazine Semana in February of last year revealed that the DAS had coordinated a series of illegal wiretaps of opposition politicians, human rights defenders, supreme court justices and journalists.