This was a TOTAL screw up. There was NOTHING about the flight that mimicked typical drug run flights.
This was one of the booby traps left in place for Bush by the departing 8 years of Clinton. 9-11 was another.
This very scenario was raised when the drug warriors first proposed this kind of shoot-down, and was scoffed at. The War on Some Drugs is more dangerous than the drugs themselves.
How many actual drug smugglers have ever been shot down?
This is CIA incompetence. But the news is being released at this time to distract from the election results and blame the incident on Bush.
Bush’s fault. It’s predictable.