CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel

[kpete]

Source: Business Insider

An investigation by El Universal has found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs in exchange for information on rival cartels.

Sinaloa, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, supplies 80% of the drugs entering the Chicago area and has a presence in cities across the U.S.

There have long been allegations that Guzman, considered to be "the world’s most powerful drug trafficker," coordinates with American authorities.

But the El Universal investigation is the first to publish court documents that include corroborating testimony from a DEA agent and a Justice Department official.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz2qKWem3w8

[OnyxCollie]

1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

That explains why HSBC was able to settle for laundering drug money.

HSBC Judge Approves $1.9B Drug-Money Laundering Accord
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge-approves-1-9b-drug-money-laundering-accord.html

HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA)’s $1.9 billion agreement with the U.S. to resolve charges it enabled Latin American drug cartels to launder billions of dollars was approved by a federal judge.

U.S. District Judge John Gleeson in Brooklyn, New York, signed off yesterday on a deferred-prosecution agreement, a critical component of the London-based bank’s settlement. Gleeson said in his order that he was exercising “supervisory power” over the deal even though the bank and government contended he didn’t have authority to approve or deny it.

“A pending criminal case is not window dressing” Gleeson wrote, noting that the case was filed and would remain pending for five years under the agreement. “By placing a criminal matter on the docket of a federal court, the parties have subjected their DPA to the legitimate exercise of the court’s authority.”

HSBC was accused of failing to monitor more than $670 billion in wire transfers and more than $9.4 billion in purchases of U.S. currency from HSBC Mexico, allowing for money laundering, prosecutors said. The bank also violated U.S. economic sanctions against Iran, Libya, Sudan, Burma and Cuba, according to a criminal information filed in the case.

[LiberalArkie]

2. I guess, as they say, "Now we know the rest of the story"

[NCcoast]

3. 2000... let me think. What was going on in America in the year 2000?

It wasn't Nixon encouraging the Vietnamese to continue the war so he could be reelected. It wasn't Saint Ronnie asking the Iranians to keep the hostages so he could get elected, and then could sell them guns. Must have been one of those other law and order, family values, super patriots in office. I'm reaching the age where they all sort of run together into a big old tanned Brill Creamy Jabba the Hut kind of monster in my mind. Can we turn the page yet?

[leftyohiolib]

4. tag

[tayjes16]

5. The CIA/DEA have a long history of working with drug cartels.

This has been going on since the days of Air America in Vietnam (smuggling opium/heroin out of SE Asia), the Iran-Contra scandal (cocaine out of Latin America), and the modern day collaboration with paramilitary death squads in Colombia, who control over 90% of the drug traffic and also terrorize leftist social movements and guerrillas.

Two great books on this are "Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America" (Peter Dale Scott) and "Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia" (Jazmin Hristov) ...

Long story short, I'm glad these documents were released, but anyone who wasn't already aware that the US government regularly collaborates with drug traffickers, simply hasn't been looking ...

[mrdmk]

25. Thank-you for the info!

Welcome to D.U.

[sorefeet]

6. The DEA has brought drugs to

every town in America. Purposely. The drug problem in this country would not be near as bad without the help of the DEA. Highly corrupt, just like our law makers. Gotta keep those prisons full ya know. Not enough drugs to justify the DEA, then get more fucking drugs.

[Capt.Rocky300]

12. We met some folks who catered meals to rock groups on tour...........

they told us local DEA agents made sure the rock stars "got only the high quality stuff". Our tax dollars at work.

[Dawson Leery]

7. The DEA has done nothing for you and me.

The DEA is a parasite on the taxpayer.

[RobertEarl]

8. Wink, wink

ChaChing!

Nothing to see here, keep moving.

Just remember, it's not Obama's fault. Holder is in charge of the DEA.

[truedelphi]

10. Smack to top of forehead -

That makes it all so clear.

The big banks laundered hundreds of billions of dollars of drug cartel money.

Small slap on their wrist when caught.

Meanwhile legit drug growers in Calif cannot open a savings or checking acct with their proceeds.

[warrant46]

11. What more can be said about the skunk

[Crowman1979]

9. DEA = American STASI

You can throw other US law-enforcement/national security agencies into the mix as well.

[CanonRay]

13. The whole "war on drugs" is a total fraud

as we always suspected.

[Stuart G]

24. Fraud??? can't be.."War on Drugs" a fraud?..You must be mistaken.

" I don't believe that there is gambling going on in this establishment.." Oh., please give me my winnings..thanks..

[on point]

14. What was the Bush Family cut I wonder?

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. Those DEAholes are worse than useless. That agency should be disbanded.

[DeSwiss]

16. US Government = CRIMINALS

- K&R

[Judi Lynn]

21. Great image! Thanks for posting it. n/t

[Jesus Malverde]

17. Shorty says thanks for the guns too..

[olddad56]

18. This is not late breaking news, the CIA has been involved in drug trafficing since the Reagan days.

Read Gary Webb's book Dark Alliance.

[blackspade]

19. Not remotely suprised

The war on drugs was morally bankrupt from the beginning.

[brett_jv]

20. Raise your hand if you think the Chicago reference in the article is coincidental? n/t

[Jesus Malverde]

23. Who is da godfather of chi town...

[Jesus Malverde]

22. So who is going to jail? Who ok'ed billions of dollars of marijuana into the country

while raiding the dispensaries in california? This makes me so fucking mad. These aren't some hippies but blood thirsty murderers.

Never mind the tons of cocaine...

It's known most of the FF guns went to this same cartel... They have all the luck...

[4Q2u2]

26. You want to know how bad the DEA is

Cops do not trust them, say they are the most corrupt and are afraid of them. That should tell anyone all they need to know about the DEA