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Drug Enforcement Administration vs. Arms Dealers, Super-Crooks

Danger Room, Noah Shachtman The CIA and the military get all the credit — and all the blame. But the Drug Enforcement Administration may be America’s most active group on the front lines of transnational crime. With eighty-four offices in sixty-three countries, the DEA has agents all over the planet and a vast network of former drug [...]
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Selling Drugs to Fund Terror: al-Qaeda Linked to Cocaine Trafficking

When you replace “al Qaeda” with “CIA”, you get closer to the truth: ABC Three men linked to al Qaeda and arrested in Africa by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents following a cocaine sting operation have been extradited to New York and are slated to appear in federal court in Manhattan today, according to federal sources. The arrests [...]
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DEA Forced to Scrub Misleading Info on the American Medical Association’s Position on Marijuana

Charmie Gholson/AlterNet Activists get the DEA to remove obsolete information from its website claiming that the American Medical Association (AMA) still opposes medical marijuana
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CIA’s “Great Pretense” Exposed in State-Secrets Fraud Case

Bill Conroy | Narcosphere Judge Can Make History Right by Keeping Pleadings in Ex-DEA agent Richard Horn’s Lawsuit on the Books Former DEA agent Richard Horn, with the help of his attorney, former federal prosecutor Brian Leighton, recently brought the mighty CIA to its knees. For some 15 years, Horn waged a legal battle in federal [...]
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U.S. government’s effort to derail former DEA agent’s lawsuit marked by deceit

Bill Conroy | Narconews Recent DOJ pleadings in state-secrets case appear to rely on fabrications U.S. government attorneys seem to have made another major blunder in the closely watched state-secrets privilege case involving former DEA agent Richard Horn.
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DEA Agents Accused in Court Pleadings of Dealing Heroin As Part of 1990s Pakistan Connection

Narcosphere | Bill Conroy Agents — Two Since Retired, One Now Leading High-powered Task Force — Call Claims “Absurd” and “Despicable” A top gun with the DEA’s Special Operations Division, along with two fellow law enforcers, are not what they seem, if Gaetano (Guy) DiGirolamo Sr., a convicted heroin dealer, is to be believed.
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Conroy: CIA, State Department accused of sanitizing report into alleged misconduct

Bill Conroy Federal investigator claims he faced retaliation for failing to play ball with a cover-up What can best be described as a bombshell revelation has surfaced in a long-running state-secrets case filed by a former DEA agent, Richard Horn, against past high-level employees of the CIA and State Department.
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Lauderdale Pilots Face Uncertain Future

http://www.madcowprod.com/… CIA Drug Plane Scandal Heating Up Dec. 21, 2007 by Daniel Hopsicker The scandal surrounding two CIA-connected drug planes which flew from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport to South America before being busted in Mexico on the way back with multi-ton loads of cocaine grew more serious last week..
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Cocaine Jet Crash in Mexico Linked to Narco-Trafficker Who Worked for U.S. Government

Before His September Arrest, José Nelson Urrego May Have Been Operating as a Trafficker and Money Launderer for Years in Panama, Under U.S. Protection By Bill Conroy, Special to The Narco News Bulletin January 12, 2008 Panamanian police descended on a small, private island off the Pacific coast of the Central American nation in late September of last [...]
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