President Bharrat Jagdeo today said that his decision to appoint Henry Greene as Police Commissioner was made after the US refused to provide information on a five-year probe which it said tied Greene to drug trafficking.
Classified diplomatic cables sent to Washington by former US Embassy Charge d’Affaires Michael Thomas, show that the US in 2006 had warned of the potential embarrassment for the administration if its Police Commissioner (Greene) was indicted in a foreign court. The US, UK, Canada and EU mission chiefs here later urged the government against going ahead with his appointment.
According to the cables, released via the WikiLeaks website, both President Jagdeo and Head of the Presidential
