Meanwhile, prominent backers of Clinton’s over the same years – including bond broker
and convicted drug dealer Dan Lasater and chicken tycoon Don Tyson – have themselves
been subjects of extensive investigative and surveillance files by the DEA or the FBI similar
to those relating to Seal, including allegations of illegal drug activity that Tyson has recently
acknowledged publicly and denounced as "totally false." "This may be the first president in
history with such close buddies who have NADDIS numbers," says one concerned
law-enforcement official, referring to the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Intelligence
System numbers assigned those under protracted investigation for possible drug crimes.