From: "Rivera, Johnny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Congressman Rangel calls for an investigation into the FBI activi ties in Puerto Rico Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:27:38 -0500
Congressman Demand Investigations El Nuevo Día February 15, 2005 By José A. Delgado ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WASHINGTON - "Democrats in Congress will go to Puerto Rico to investigate FBI actions on the island if the Republican majority of the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives refuses to intervene in this controversy," Congressman Charles Rangel said yesterday. Sensenbrener, a conservative from Wisconsin, had already rejected last October a call to investigate the circumstances under which FBI agents allowed Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. the leader of the People Boricua Army (or the Macheteros) to bleed to death. Observers in Washington predict that the new solicitation by Rangel will once again be rejected. But Rangel brought forward to El Nuevo Dia that Democrats will not stay with their arms crossed and that, at the very least, will find a way to denounced the attitudes of the FBI. We ask for an immediate independent investigation to determine if the Bureau's use of force was excessive or unwarranted,:" said the Boricua federal legislators, who considered the situation warranted their attention as was the case with Ojeda Rios, whose inquiry is in the hands of the Office of the Attorney General of the Department of Justice. The three Borrica members of Congress asked Mueller that they recieve a response to their request by the latest tomorrow, when they return to their districts. "It seems to me that it was an atrocity," the form in which the FBI acted last Friday, in an operation in which they were they was supposedly looking for evidence on the Macheteros, said REangel, whose intervention arose after the Chaire of the Bronx Democratic Party, State Assemblyman José Rivera. Rangel said he hoped to talk last night with Serrano, Gutiérrez y Velázquez. Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, on his part, yesterday telephoned Rangel to get ask that the he push for public hearings on the actions of the FBI in Puerto Rico. Acevedo Vilá, also mentioned that his interest in holding hearings in Puerto Rico. "We discussed the possibility of carrying out visits here in Puerto Rico, in a form in which the members of Congress can receive testimony from those that suffered the consequences of the incident and where the FBI can have the opportunity to say to the members of COngress their version of what happened," said Acevedo Vilá. In his statements to El Nuevo Día, Rangel, who arrived yesterday afternoon in Washington D.C., evaded details of his conversation with Acevedo Vilá. But, he said that he would talk to the Boricua members of Congress and his good friend, the Ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, to insure that there is an investigation. "If (the Republicans) don't consent to this, the Democrats will go there. It wouldn't be an official investigation, but we will do our jobs," pointed out Rangel, who is not a member of the Judiciary Committee but is very influential among the minority Democrats. Serrano, for his part, is one of the leaders on the Subcommittee of Assignments that examines the budget of the FBI. The Hispanic Caucus of Congress, made up of Democrats, carrried out in 2001 an According to the Commissioner, White House officials -- which he didn't identify - said that they would bring the complaint to the FBI. In those moments, the U.S. Attorney General's Offices will examine the actions of the federal agents in the operation that culminated in the death of Ojeda Ríos on Sept. 23, 2005. That investigation was the primary reason why Congressman Sensenbrener rejected the call for public hearings into that matter. Vicente " Panama" Alba [EMAIL PROTECTED] (917) 626-5847 "if you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are comrade of mine." 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