The Colorado conspiracy has collapsed ~ By Tom Tancredo

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

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. 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. READ FULL STORY >