The real powers behind the drug trade: for the drug war to stop, authorities would have to go after "politicians on both sides of the border."

10/2/22

https://news.yahoo.com/inside-uss-most-secure-prison-212100950.html

Greg Abbott formally asked President Joe Biden on Wednesday to declare several Mexican drug cartels as "terrorist organizations,"

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/texas/state-bureau/2022/09/21/mexican-fentanyl-cartels-should-be-called-terrorists-abbott-says/69509901007/

CIA and DEA activities flowed out of Mena in the Clinton years. Cocaine—a lot of it—flowed in. And for thirty years, every attempt to get to the bottom of events at Mena—federal, state, judicial, journalistic—has failed.

The story took on a new life when Bill Clinton ran for president. And while Clinton would later correctly note that events at Mena were “primarily a matter of federal jurisdiction”—meaning that Republicans probably had more to lose than Democrats if the truth was exposed—it’s also true that a Clinton friend and supporter named Dan Lasater was under investigation for drug smuggling at the same time Seal was operating in Arkansas. Lasater went to jail for a cocaine connection, as did his friend, Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton’s brother.

Duncan, along with Arkansas State Police investigator Russell Welch, started digging into Seal and the Mena connection, suspecting a drug smuggling and money laundering operation. For their efforts, their careers were crushed.

In 1996, House Banking Committee Chairman Jim Leach pressed the CIA for answers about its role at Mena.

7/22/19

https://www.judicialwatch.org/guns-drugs-cia-at-mena-arkansas-judicial-watch-demands-answers/

BRIEFING FOR REP. JAMES LEACH

Q: Is NSA or CIA aware of an account, number b-253AB2, at the [Banca Della Svizzera Italiano] in Chiasso, said to have belonged to [the late] [Vincent Foster]?

Clinton presidential campaign

Mena, Arkansas

Barry Seal

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000812916.pdf

George Bush: Crack Kingpin of the 1980s

Former President George Bush, while serving as vice president in the Ronald Reagan administration in 1981-89, presided over a Nicaraguan Contra apparatus that was responsible for flooding the streets of Los Angeles' South Central district with crack cocaine, and fueling a murderous cycle of gang violence

already massive evidence that the Bush-North Contra apparatus was involved in flooding the United States with cocaine, through Mena, Arkansas

https://larouchepub.com/other/1996/bush_drug_ops.html