Remember those rumors about the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officials in Colombia trafficking cocaine & arms, and then laundering the proceeds through front companies run by paramilitary death squads? All true, and you'll be thrilled to learn that these assholes are all still on the payroll, just cold doin' their thing in Colombia. At least one of them has even gotten a fancy promotion, and is "now in charge of numerous narcotics and money laundering investigations." Awesome.
We know all this because the agency insiders who tried to blow the whistle on the whole thing in the first place, are now talking publicly, only this time they're focused on the media cover-up. According to the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, they'd risked their necks to expose the DEA drug ring, but just ended up getting jacked around by the press instead.
After working out an exclusive deal with Time Magazine in 2005, four DEA agents spent hours with reporters and editors walking them through the layers of corruption. They even turned over a Department of Justice internal investigation, complete with phone transcripts linking DEA and US embassy officials to the drug runners and paramilitaries. But after poking around for a few weeks, Time editors decided to kill the story, and nobody in the main stream media ever picked it up. If you heard about it at all, it was from the Narco News Bulletin, the invaluable drug war news site, which published the internal documents in 2006.
Some conspiracy theories are true, turns out. Meanwhile enjoy this sampling of snide news reports about crazy old Bolivia and Venezuela "not cooperating" with DEA in the War on Drugs.
(Hat Tip: Justin)
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It seemed a no-brainer to me that a Bush Junta-run "war on drugs" funded by you and me would net billions for the Bush Cartel & pals in illicit profits, get a lot of poor people tortured and killed and driven from their lands, and do nothing whatever to stop bad drugs, weapons and crime from proliferating, there and here. But I'm gratified to read that my suspicions were well founded, and of course not in the least surprised that our criminal corporate 'news' monopolies covered it up. There is simply no way to adequately describe how corrupt our 'news establishments have become nor how twisted and vile the people are who control our national political establishment. If we feel despair, though, about our own democracy, we can look south these days to see what democracy is supposed to look like--not to Colombia, of course, which is a 'fun house' mirror image of the Bushwhacks, nor Peru, whose rich elite is trying to imitate Colombia--but to the rest of South America, and Latin America as a whole, where democracy is flourishing at long last. Perhaps it will catch on here again, too.
Posted by PeacePatriot
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June 15, 2009 5:22 PM
Posted on June 15, 2009 17:22