[neverdem]

Hundreds of weapons? How about thousands?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I think we should start referring to the federal bureaucracy as the government/criminal-complex.

[coloradan]

In other news, all of this would be highly illegal if anyone other than our masters did it. Then again, laws are for little people and not our federal Lords.

[Jonty30]

And the money, of course is tracked right to the cartel kingpins.

Right?

[MestaMachine]

Even the nyt....
Ping.

[GeronL]

Send them guns, launder their profits....

pretty soon its hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys

[Smokin' Joe]

I have long maintained that the ONLY plausible reason the border remains unsecured, even though we've known there was an 'illegal alien problem' since the Eisenhower administration, is that someones in high places are making a lot of money off of the drug traffic.

[HiTech RedNeck]

who came up with these asinine ideas. i know, the donkey party.

[gaijin]

while the D.E.A. conducted such operations in other countries, it began doing so in Mexico only in the past few years.

Now THAT is rich! Oh SURE it was recent..!

The ONLY time when this crew appears to volunteer info is when they're trying to perform damage control. If they say it's hundreds of machine-guns, it's thousands (which we KNOW), and if they say the drug money funny biz has been going on for a few years, it means for DECADES.

I even heard that we almost had a total banking melt down YEARS AGO if not for massive drug profit laundering.

The new "cool" way to govern is to run around in black ninjya kook gear, wave guns around, and door really shady stuff like handle drug money.

We will NEVER Americanize Mexico, instead we'll see the Mexicanization of the USA.

[goldstategop]

I’m not surprised... there’s enough cash there to help many agents live the life of the 1%. And with no way to keep track of it, an interesting question as to how much gets stashed away in offshore bank accounts.

[Tainan]

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[Lockbox]

What's Money Laundering when you're gun running?

Note under the federal Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 (BSA), 31 U.S.C.A. §§ 5311 et seq., financial institutions are required to report deposits of more than $10,000 in cash made by an individual in a single day.

Wonder if there are any bank records?

[Ken H]

So drug war supporters... how's that drug war working out?

[aces]

They are using drug money to finance missions again...they get caught and say oh yea we were tracing the guns and money..BS, they already know who the dealers are its our government, legalize pot..and stop the oppression from our government,,there is nothing Christian about putting folks in jail for pot..nothing moral about ruining folks lives over a plant God gave us..

[dagogo redux]

When do we begin referring to them as the Federal Cartel?

Or do we have the competing DEA Cartel, the FBI Cartel, the ICE Cartel, the ATF Cartel, the DHS Cartel, The EPA Cartel, the FDA Cartel, the NLRB Cartel, the DOE Cartel, etc, all competing against one another for turf, power and booty?

[AirForceVet1988]

Anybody know if any of this is true ?? Without proof, I ain’t buyin’ it.