BOREV: Meet DEA's #1 Ally in War For Drugs: Time Magazine!!

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Lotsa links, so go the BOREV site to pick 'em up.
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"Meet DEA's #1 Ally in the War Against On For Drugs: Time Magazine!

TimeColombiaConnectino.jpgRemember 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)
Tags:

* Colombia
* Corruption
* DEA
* Tim Padgett
* Time Magazine

http://www.borev.net/2009/06/meet_deas_1_ally_in_the_war_ag.html

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1. Leaked Memo: Corrupt DEA Agents in COL Help Narcos and Paras

Here's one of the links in BoRev post.
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"Leaked Memo: Corrupt DEA Agents in Colombia Help Narcos and Paramilitaries
Internal Justice Dept. Document Alleges Drug Trafficking Links, Money Laundering and Conspiracy to Murder"
http://www.narconews.com/Issue40/article1543.html