Posted on 09/12/2010 4:38:57 PM PDT by khnyny
EL PASO - She lived a double life. At the border crossing, she was Agent Garnica, a veteran law enforcement officer. In the shadows, she was "La Estrella," the star, a brassy looker who helped drug cartels make a mockery of the U.S. border.
Martha Garnica devised secret codes, passed stacks of cash through car windows and sketched out a map for smugglers to safely haul drugs and undocumented workers across the border. For that she was richly rewarded; she lived in a spacious house with a built-in pool, owned two Hummers and vacationed in Europe.
For years, until an intricate sting operation brought her down in late 2009, Garnica embodied the seldom-discussed role of the United States in the trafficking trade.
Cartels based in Mexico, where there is a long history of corruption, increasingly rely on well-placed operatives such as Garnica to reach their huge customer base in the United States. It is an argument often made by Mexican officials - that all the attention paid to corruption in their country has obscured a similar, growing problem on the U.S. side of the border.
The cartels have grown so sophisticated, law enforcement officials say, that they are employing Cold War-era spy tactics to recruit and corrupt U.S. officials.
"In order to stay in business, the drug trafficking organizations have to look at different methods for moving product," said Thomas Frost, an assistant inspector general in the Department of Homeland Security. "The surest method is by corrupting a border official. The amount of money available to corrupt employees is staggering."
In late August, Garnica's double life ended.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Drug Warriors (Armchair Division) appearing to excuse their total disaster in 3...2...1...
Like it is hard to corrupt union members..
Like it is hard to corrupt union members..
Yeah, over ten years of "mistakes".
Homeland Security statistics suggest the rush to fill thousands of border enforcement jobs has translated into lower hiring standards. Barely 15 percent of Customs and Border Protection applicants undergo polygraph tests and of those, 60 percent were rejected by the agency because they failed the polygraph or were not qualified for the job, said Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), who oversees a Senate subcommittee on homeland security.
DHS started under who?
Tip of the Iceberg….
absolutely; the government has no real interest to stop this or the invasion from Mexico and South America; their just mad they did not get their vig.
This is what you get when one group plays cops’n robbers and the other side plays war; have we not seen these social programs just become the process du-jour over the last 45 years.
Good points - bottome line, it is a business.
My gut feeling is that these people that were caught were small time criminals in the big scheme of things. Smuggling pot...
The big guys are never caught - ever wonder about that? Not in any American city, have the big guys been busted. It’s always the street thugs, not the masterminds moving tons of heroin, etc. I don’t know about you, but I’ve always found that curious.
Here's how you get Capone: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to hospital, jou send one of his to the morgue!
Check this clip...
THEY ARE HERE.
http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1284197186/Convict_Threatens_Judges_Life_In_Court
Border security troubles ping.
More evidence that US L/E has been infiltrated by these Third World hyphenates (and Mideast scumbags) who are working internally to undermine US national security.
This was good for a laugh...... says "she made mistakes" "and takes responsibility."
This scumbag has the sap-happy liberal agit-prop down cold.........Mexico is getting better at training drug cartels before the Mexican military gives them passage over the border.
We should Hang Her next to the border fence for all to see.
I think the big story here is that this came from the Washington Post.
The comPost cares that the border was made a mockery of?
That’s how The Great Wall Of China was breached. They bribed a guard.
In the best laid plans of mice and men, they never take into consideration Jeremiah 17:9.
If you want to know the product, read the instruction manual. The Manufacturer knows his product.
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Jorge
” This was good for a laugh...... says “she made mistakes” “and takes responsibility.”
This scumbag has the sap-happy liberal agit-prop down cold.........”
” I made a $466,727.00 mistake, and I take responsibility for my actions “
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