Plumlee and other pilots have testified to Congress that they were working for a secret U.S. military intelligence operation that clandestinely sent them from the United States to bring back the so-called damaged and disappeared weapons for retrofitting and repair.
“When the weapons were repaired and tested at China Lake and Twentynine Palms, in California, they [...]
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Also tagged Arms Trafficking, California, CFR, CIA, Colombia, Costa Rica, Covert Landing Strips, DOD, Drug Trafficking, El Salvador, Gary Hart, Homicide, Investigations, Iran Contra Affair, John Kerry, Kiki Camarena, Latin America, MCAS El Toro, Mexico, Military, Murder, Narcotics, Nicaragua, NSC, Operation Penetrate, Pentagon, Robert Tosh Plumlee, Senate, Tosh Plumlee, Unmarked Planes, USMC, Whistleblower, White House
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We’ve all seen a television show or a movie about an undercover narcotics cop who become crooked. He loses the trust of his colleagues, then his family. Soon, the only contacts he has are with the world of drug dealers that he originally set out to destroy. Now picture this scenario of the criminal cop [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan, CIA, Cocaine, Colombia, Corruption, Crime, Douglas Valentine, Drug Policy, Drug Trafficking, FBI, Heroin, Informers, Intelligence, Law, Narcs, Pakistan, Terrorism, The Phoenix Program, Vietnam War, War on Drugs
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Among the cartels many sources of profit, illegal sales of cannabis account for the majority of their funds at roughly 60 percent, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
While debate over how best to fight the increasingly powerful criminal groups continues to wage within the U.S., many Mexican officials have arrived to the conclusion that [...]
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Also tagged Cannabis, Ciudad Juarez, Drug Cartels, Drug Policy, El Paso, Law, Marijuana, Mexico, Preventable Deaths, Reform, Texas, War on Drugs
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Neither the administration nor Congress is ready for a serious dialogue on ending marijuana prohibition, though. Congress is even stymied when it comes to medical marijuana — many elected officials still insist they can’t spend their political capital on it. With support for medical marijuana at 81 percent, one has to wonder — just how [...]
It’s the “catch-22″ that has plagued medical marijuana advocates and patients for decades. Lawmakers and health regulators demand clinical studies on the safety and efficacy of medical cannabis, but the federal agency in charge of such research bars these investigations from ever taking place.
But it took until now for the federal government to finally [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
Excessive government secrecy is an enemy of human rights and the rule of law. President Obama deserves praise for rejecting the underlying policies that caused the United States so much harm during the Bush years. But in withholding photos of detainee abuse, preventing legal challenges to torture and warrantless surveillance, and thwarting impartial hearings into [...]
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Also tagged Barack Obama, CIA, Detainees, DOJ, Eric Holder, FOIA, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Law, National Security, Public Trust, Secrecy, Secret Prisons, State Secrets Privilege, Torture, Transparency
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
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 court against a former CIA official whom Horn alleged had illegally eavesdropped on him as part of a CIA- and State [...]
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Also tagged Arthur Brown, Brian Leighton, Burma, CIA, Courts, Drug Trafficking, Franklin Huddle, George Tenet, Intelligence, John Rizzo, Myanmar, National Clandestine Service, NCS, Richard Horn, Robert Eatinger, Royce Lamberth, State Secrets Privilege, Wiretapping
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