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Thought experiment time, gang! Imagine that a bunch of DEA agents are caught in a scandal accepting prostitutes from drug cartels in Colombia. What do you think would result from this? Made your prediction yet? Good! Now let’s see what actually happened…
SHOW NOTES
DEA agents had ‘sex parties’ with prostitutes, watchdog says
China [Opium] Trade and the East India Company
Alfred McCoy on CIA complicity in the international drug trade
Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy
How Crack Funded a CIA War: Gary Webb Interview on the Contras and Ronald Reagan (1996)
The CIA and Crack: Evidence Is Lacking Of Alleged Plot
CIA Public Affairs and the Drug Conspiracy Sites
CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy – DOJ/OIG Report (1997)
Statement of CIA Inspector General to The House Committee On Intelligence – March 16, 1998
Cocaine plane trail is open challenge for Obama administration
Exciting Investment Opportunity in Afghanistan! Record Returns Expected!
The DEA sex party scandal just got worse
Anger Over Reports of D.E.A. Agents’ Parties, and Bewilderment at Mild Penalties
DEA chief to resign in wake of agency’s Colombian sex scandal
Eric Holder issued a stern memo, so it’s all fixed now.
Move along now, nothing to see here…
Florida cops laundered millions for drug cartels
http://pubsys.miamiherald.com/static/media/projects/2015/license-to-launder/launder.html
This one is a doozey. DHS and DEA is involved in the deals, although they claimed they had no idea what was really going on. Yet both the DoJ and the FBI never did an audit…gee, I wonder why?