Cables Portray Expanded Reach of Drug Agency

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables.

In far greater detail than previously seen, the cables, from the cache obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to some news organizations, offer glimpses of drug agents balancing diplomacy and law enforcement in places where it can be hard to tell the politicians from the traffickers, and where drug rings are themselves mini-states whose wealth and violence permit them to run roughshod over struggling governments.

Diplomats recorded unforgettable vignettes from the largely unseen war on drugs:

¶In Panama, an urgent BlackBerry message from the president to the American ambassador demanded that the D.E.A. go after his political enemies: “I need help with tapping phones.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/world/26wikidrugs.html?hp

Our war on Iraq? Eight years of bush??

All the communist states, Iran under the Shaw, etc.

Bush certainly wanted a bit of that power.

are forced to be tapped out - looking for work and other means to pay their bills.

sheesh

The DEA extended way beyond their initial mission.

TSA extended way-way-way-way-way beyond their mission.

The USA leads the world in prison population with the most incarcerated.. serving multiple years for petty drug crimes.

Debtor prisons and free prison labor are the next profit centers on the agenda for the fat-cat politicians.

nt

I am amused by Chavez infiltrating the DEA, there's some poetry in that.

somewhere and archived together?

Probably better to leave the original posting as is and move a copy of it

and a link to it to another location where all the WikiLeaks Cables would

be saved?

Guess I should take that Q to "Ask the Administrators" ... ?

The website itself has over a thousand mirrors, the raw data has over a million recipients, in too many jurisdictions (and with folks who roam) to be turned off.

I'm getting my info from the repostings here -- not from the Wiki website --

are you?

http://213.251.145.96/classification/3_4.html ">Cable Viewer

:)

and where drug rings are themselves mini-states whose wealth and violence permit them to run roughshod over struggling governments.

http://publicintelligence.net/kissinger-associates-inc/

Obama has appointed Jacob Lew to head up OBM ....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/29/jacob-lew-omb-nominee-got_n_663828.html


US govt names Citigroup in $ 1.4 bn money laundering case
NEW YORK, NOV 30: More than $1.4 billion in suspicious, mostly overseas funds passed through accounts at Citigroup and Commercial Bank of San Francisco from 1991 through ...
www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20001201/​ibu01036.html - Cached


http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20001201/ibu01036.html

Possibly we'll soon be laundering drug money thru government accounts?

You're about 40 years too late.

Or maybe you were being sarcastic.

What do you know ... ???

Wish I was being sarcastic -- !!

http://www.google.com/search?q=CIA+drug+running

Sorry to break it to you, but we've been doing this for a long, long, time.

:sarcasm:

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It opened the door to creating the Police State, and has given unchecked power to government agencies.

That's why they seemingly throw more money at activities that seem stupid on the face of it. Who would ever believe the 'War on Drugs' would do anything to actually end drugs? Turns out, if you're correct (and it's logical that you are) that they do it to get control, as in the kind of control that Police States enjoy. Thanks ixion!

and corrupted government, elected officials -- and police enforcement --

Customs, etal --

Judges

Lawyers

Prisons