Posted on 8/16/2019, 6:54:37 PM by bitt
Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the CIA seeking the CIA Inspector General’s November 1996 report related to a drug-running, arms smuggling and intelligence operation involving Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport in Arkansas.
The airfield in Mena was alleged to have been used in the 1980s by the CIA during the Reagan administration to smuggle arms to rebels in Nicaragua. A central figure in the operation was Barry Seal, a pilot and drug smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel who became an undercover agent and informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
In November 1996, then-CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz absolved the CIA of involvement in the operation.
Hitz at the time said that “no evidence has been found to indicate that the CIA or anyone acting on its behalf participated in, or otherwise had knowledge of, any illegal or improper activities in Mena, Arkansas or the area north of Mena known as Nella, Arkansas.”
Judicial Watch sued the CIA in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia after the agency failed to respond to a June 29, 2018, FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:19-cv-00672)). Judicial Watch seeks:
The CIA Inspector General’s report issued in November 1996 relating to a drug-running, money laundering and intelligence gathering operation involving an airport in Mena, Arkansas.
(Excerpt) Read more at judicialwatch.org ...
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Don’t those particular thing implicate democrats? Who would want those dusty old things
tom cruise hardest hit
Judicial Watch needs to learn how to write without using ALL CAPS.
I’m sorry to hear of the impending suicide of Judicial Watch.
Bush's working with Clinton both CIA operatives.
Which is why it was so tight for all these years.
Pretty much.
They are just trying to ENTICE some of the SCREAMERS on BOARD. SMART.
Interesting...
The NEW JW seems to be focused and clearly knows more about what is going on than when Ken Star ran it.
They wouldn’t be poking around Arkansas unless they had a reasonable suspicion something was covered up.
Get that and you get Bill Barr AND the Clintons (yes Bill Barr) he ran the operation.
The suicide of the cia has been long and slow.
CRA
..,at this point, what difference does it make...
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Would that this came to light after all these years
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