MEMBER BLOG TAG: medellin drug cartel
| Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:00PM | | | | Drugs: The CIA Comes Clean | Tags: Reagan, Oliver North, Ed Meese, Daniel Ortega, Gary Webb, William Casey, Medellin Drug Cartel
| | | | In 1989, newly elected president, Bush 1 pardoned Secretary of the Army Caspar Weinberger and other Iran/contra defendants ending the investigation of Iran/contra crimes. Stonewalling, perjury, obstructing justice, shredding evidence, retaliating against truth tellers had proved to be effective.
The Kerry subcommittee reported: "the saga of Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures for the United States...It is clear that each US government agency which had a relationship with Noriega turned a blind eye to his corruption and drug dealing, even as he was emerging as a key player on behalf of the Medellin Cartel. Manuel Noriega was allowed to establish "the hemisphere's first ‘narcokleptocracy.’”
According to Noriega on March 18, 1988, he met with US State Department officials... | | | | | |
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