Fast and Furious resurfaces to keep them awake at night.

President Obama and El Chapo’s fast and furious escape

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2015 — When the Sinaloa Cartel’s leader, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, escaped from his Mexican dungeon last Saturday, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump Tweeted, “Mexico’s biggest drug lord escapes from jail. Unbelievable corruption and USA is paying the price. I told you so.”

In 2012, Jesus Vincente Zambada-Niebla, the logistics (drug shipping) coordinator for El Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel, made a startling claim while standing before U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo on charges of drug trafficking.

According to a motion filed by Zambada-Niebla’s attorneys, their client met “with United States government agents at the Sheraton Hotel in Mexico City in March of 2009 for the purpose of introducing Mr. Zambada-Niebla to the agents and for the purpose of his continuing to provide information to the DEA and the United States government personally.”

The motion further stated that “the operation known and authorized at the highest levels of the Justice Department [Operation Fast and Furious] and which included agents from ATF, DEA, FBI, ICE, and the IRS, allowed guns to be illegally purchased in the United States and transported to Mexico to end up in the hands of members of drug cartels … Justice and its agency partners knew that the foreseeable result of this strategy was that death and destruction would occur in Mexico and the result was not only approved but regarded with ‘giddy optimism by the ATF supervisors.’”

According to Zambada-Niebla, the U.S. government agreed to look the other way concerning the Sinaloa Cartel’s U.S. operations if the cartel agreed to provide information leading to the decimation of its deadly, drug-dealing Mexican rivals.

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