Documents: Hickenlooper administration tangled up in Feds’ al-Turki case

FOX 31 ^ | November 4, 2013 | Eli Stokols and Julie Hayden

[george76]

DENVER — The ongoing legal battle over the extradition request of Homaidan al-Turki, a Saudi inmate imprisoned for keeping a maid as a sex slave, is, for now, in the hands of an Arapahoe County district court judge.

But documents released in court last week and conversations with attorneys and law enforcement sources reveal the case to be a matter of national security, with al-Turki, who is asking to be transferred to serve the rest of his sentence in his native Saudi Arabia, believed by investigators to have connections to worldwide terrorist organizations.

He is also still under investigation in connection with the murder of Tom Clements, the former chief of the Colorado Dept. of Corrections who was shot by a paroled inmate on March 19, eight days after he denied al-Turki’s transfer motion.

Prosecutors in El Paso County, who are still investigating the Clements murder, have asked the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s office to withhold some information that could be important to their case while arguing against the inmate’s extradition request.

“If in fact a connection is made to al-Turki and we’re advised he’s a person of interest [in Clements' murder], then he would be forever out of our reach in terms of our ability to prosecute him,” Ann Tomsic said Friday.

A number of letters and emails, dating back to July 2012, also show that two high-level members of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s cabinet, Chief of Staff Roxane White and General Counsel Jack Finlaw, were involved in conversations that eventually led to Clements signing a transfer order for al-Turki — a transfer order that was never acted on and eventually rescinded after federal investigators informed members of the administration about al-Turki’s presumed terrorist ties.

[Paladin2]

Thanksgiving is coming.

Hickenlooper is a turkey...

[GladesGuru]

America has always had the best politicians money could buy.

Saudi’s have lots of money.

Now you know why Hickenlooper and others do what the Saudi’s want.