Great Column in NY Sun

Our Trivialized Cuba Policy By MAURICIO CLAVER-CARONE'

Excerpt:

The wording of the GAO report also irresponsibly implies that there are no terrorists, spies and/or criminals coming into this country from Cuba, as if the GAO had been tasked with producing national security and intelligence estimates.

The report takes no notice that, of the five nations remaining on the American list of countries that sponsor terrorism, Cuba is the only one in the Western Hemisphere and by far the closest to America.

In its "Country Reports on Terrorism," the State Department writes that "the government of Cuba provided safe haven to members of ETA [Basque terrorist organization], FARC and the ELN [narcoterrorist organizations in Colombia] and maintained close relationships with other state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran. ... The Cuban government continued to permit U.S. fugitives to live legally in Cuba and is unlikely to satisfy U.S. extradition requests for terrorists harbored in the country."

In fact, in the last decade, there have been more convictions in U.S. federal courts of individuals conducting espionage activities for the regime in Cuba than for any other country on that list. These include a senior analyst at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and various efforts to penetrate the Central and Southern Command of the U.S. Armed Forces. Furthermore, American indictments accusing Cuban regime officials of crimes ranging from narcotics trafficking to the murder of American citizens are also outstanding.

Mr. Claver-Carone is a director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC in Washington, D.C. He is an attorney who formerly served with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and has served on the full-time faculty of the Catholic University of America's School of Law and adjunct faculty of George Washington University's National Law Center.

Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at January 29, 2008 07:32 AM

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