Posted on 12/04/2011 10:47:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Anti-narcotics agents working for the US government have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds to see how the system works and use the information against Mexican drug cartels, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Citing unnamed current and former federal law enforcement officials, the newspaper said the agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal cash across borders.
Some 45,000 people have been killed in Mexico since 2006, when its government launched a major military crackdown against the powerful drug cartels that have terrorized border communities as they battled over lucrative smuggling routes.
According to these officials, the operations were aimed at identifying how criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets and, most important, who their leaders are, the report said.
The agents had deposited the proceeds in accounts designated by traffickers, or in shell accounts set up by agents, the paper noted....
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Running guns? Laundering drug money? How soon do we find out about terroristic decapitations of Mexican police?
“While the DEA conducted such operations in other countries, it began doing so in Mexico only in the past few years, The Times said.”
No clear indication as to how long this has been going on, but I would assume it has been for much longer than the last few years as it is important for the Drug Warriors in DC to know how drug money flows.
Probably from January 20 2009...
Probably from January 20 2009...
Fast and Furious stage 2......
and Holder is still AG
impeach the AG NOW!
Theres really nothing here to see. The law & order crowd, most of whom hang out here, will tell you the govt needs to be able to do these sorts of things to catch the bad guys. Doing real police work is so yesterday. We need to make their job easier b/c the bad guys are so much smarter. I strongly suspect few of the ‘republicans’ on DC would have much of a problem w/ govt money laundering.
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