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Mon Dec-27-10 10:35 AM
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Cables Portray Expanded Reach of DEA . Transformed into Global Intelligence Organization |
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The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables.
In far greater detail than previously seen, the cables, from the cache obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to some news organizations, offer glimpses of drug agents balancing diplomacy and law enforcement in places where it can be hard to tell the politicians from the traffickers, and where drug rings are themselves mini-states whose wealth and violence permit them to run roughshod over struggling governments. Diplomats recorded unforgettable vignettes from the largely unseen war on drugs: In Panama, an urgent BlackBerry message from the president to the American ambassador demanded that the D.E.A. go after his political enemies: “I need help with tapping phones."
Seems like WTF might have some competition in the DEA.
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Mon Dec-27-10 10:41 AM
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Mon Dec-27-10 10:47 AM
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2. Here's a link to a story on this: |
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http://www.alternet.org/story/149326/wikileaks_cables%3A_drug_enforcement_agency_goes_global%2C_beyond_drugsThe article discusses foreign operations. My question is, what is intelligence operations is the DEA conducting on the home front?
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Mon Dec-27-10 10:49 AM
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Mon Dec-27-10 12:44 PM
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4. This may well be why certain drugs aren't legalized. nt |
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Mon Dec-27-10 12:51 PM
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5. Thanks to Wikileaks we're getting a good idea of just how screwed we are |
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And not just us. Everyone in the world has reason to worry about all the American agencies having their tentacles in everyday life.
No kidding. This IS Big Brother on a planetary scale.
The realization is sickening.
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Mon Dec-27-10 01:21 PM
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6. A Tailor in Panama k&r |
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Tue Dec-28-10 01:30 PM
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7. DEA Survey of Drug User Informants (12-14-10 DEA via Cryptome) |
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http://www.cryptome.org/0003/dea121410.htmThe DEA has worse rotten apples today than ever portrayed in "Leon: The Professional" or other works of fiction.
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