Another ALE Stall Tactic?

My buddy Richard R. e-mailed me this in regards to the supposed upcoming Aruban visit to interview the MB kids. Italicized comments are mine.

"Everyone here should have received from me a Birmingham News article saying that the Arubans are about to begin interviewing the Mountain Brook, AL, teens who went on the ill-fated trip. The interviews could begin on Monday. Apparently the FBI will also participate ... perhaps the Arubans will learn some professionalism?
Don't count on it. Unless they demonstrate real, undeniable, immediate progress soon 'professional' is not a word I would ever associate with ALE

So what is up? Why is this just starting now?

Does anyone think there is not a cover-up in Aruba? I cannot imagine that any rational person would doubt it, judging by the lies and evasions that we have seen from day one. The only question in my mind is how extensive it is.
My educated guess is the vdS and Kalpoes are at the bottom of a very, very tall stack of corruption...Aruba has a history of corrupt governments after all.

One thing to note is the timing of these interviews. The Arubans have had eight months to talk with the Mountain Brook teens (through the FBI of course), yet they are doing so only now, just as the new searches at the sand dunes (where Art Wood found that belt that Aruba ignored and seems to have conveniently "lost") and in the water are underway.

Is this synchronicity by chance? I don't think so.
I doubt the ALE agent- that's right- one single investigator- ever makes it to the U.S. Then Aruba will blame the family or the FBI or the media for their own latest broken promise.

It seems to me that there must be some kind of debate within Aruba on what to do about this case. Are they prepared to protect their own, risking a continued American embargo? Yes. Not only that, but possible American pressure on the Dutch (IF our government ever decides to do anything), who in turn are in a position to come down on their colonial administration?
There is a precedent for this: they once took over direct administration of the St. Maarten finances following a scandal. I have been thinking of trying to set up a "concerned citizen committee" meeting with the Dutch envoy here to urge that they do the same with the Aruban police. I'm sure they would heed what I have to say!

I think it could go either way. They could try to come up with some statement by someone putting Natalee in a bad light, and try to use that as fodder to close the case. (That wouldn't solve the question of what happened to her, but who knows whether that fact would impress Aruba.) Or, at least, to let it go cold.
Nor would it stop the boycott; I imagine Beth and her allies have a lot planned for that still- just waiting for ALE to give them a reason to keep attacking.

But if all the statements point to the three scumbags, and I can't imagine that anything wouldn't, maybe the "anti-vdS" faction (IF there is one) might push for stronger action. What more would they need? What more could they get?"
A reporter I know from Aruba tells me that the whole island is anti-van der Sloot; the word he used was 'pariah' I think. The Arubans don't hate them enough to break some knees apparently...but this same man told me Arubans are apathetic too.

Now some of my own thoughts. A friend of mine got a call from Spencer Bachus's Washington D.C. office today in reference to her questions about this supposed meeting. This is what someone from that office named Spencer Britt said to her:

"I ask him if officials were coming from Aruba today to
reinterview the Mt. Brook Kids, and he said as far as
they know that "police officials" were coming later
this week from Aruba. I ask him, if they were coming
to specific requestion Mt. Brook kids and he said yes,
as far as he knows they are. I ask him if the
information was correct in the newspaper article. He
said to his knowledge it is. I ask him who released
the information and he said the FBI in Birmingham
released this information to the Birmingham News. I
told him that was odd because in the past they had
been very tight and close lipped about releasing
anything. I also stated that it was odd that the
article would appear in the paper and gave only one
days notice that officials were coming from Aruba. He
stated that it is police officials only that are
coming..and then again specifically he indicated it
would be only one Police Inspector. I ask him point
blank if Steve Cohen was involved and got not answer.
I told him that I was concerned as to where this
information had come from. I ask him if he could give
me any other information and he said "no ma'am"

It is no secret to me at least that this possibility of ALE using interviews with the MB kids to absolve themselves of any wrongdoing in the investigation or to get out from under it altogether has been a concern of the FBI and other key individuals ever since Dumb Pig first mentioned it. At that time I understood that the FBI was going to force ALE to go through official channels and the FBI would be calling the shots and watching the questioning like a hawk. I can only hope that if the ALE actually goes through with this (I bet they'll claim MB students approached them outside of the FBI's reach and said who knows what if they come to the U.S. at all), the FBI is getting something in return. Maybe a peek at the so-called evidence or tapes of the interrogations of the three suspects.

Arubans should be alarmed that Americans so thoroughly distrust their government and what passes for law enforcement that the FBI doesn't even trust them anymore professionally and Americans in general question their actions before they even see them through! Do you not comprehend how much America feels betrayed by how terribly and underhandedly this investigation has been from the start? My God, we don't trust a single thing your corrupt government and crooked investigators do at all anymore!