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michaelvail Donating Member (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-11 12:29 PM
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US “Embedding” CIA, DEA, Military Contractors in Battle Against Mexico’s Drug Cartels
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The United States is expanding its role in Mexico’s bloody fight against drug trafficking organizations, sending new C.I.A. operatives and retired military personnel to the country and considering plans to deploy private security contractors in hopes of turning around a multibillion-dollar effort that so far has shown few results.

In recent weeks, small numbers of C.I.A. operatives and American civilian military employees have been posted at a Mexican military base, where, for the first time, security officials from both countries work side by side in collecting information about drug cartels and helping plan operations. Officials are also looking into embedding a team of American contractors inside a specially vetted Mexican counternarcotics police unit.
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Rageneau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-11 03:17 PM
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1. Would President Washington consider this kind of crap 'foreign entanglements?'
How in hell can the US justify sending "CIA operatives" and "Retired Military" -- neither of which have any CONSTITUTIONAL interests pursuable under the mantle of the Law -- to operate militarily on foreign land, and here at home the press and the politicians and the public sit with our thumbs up our butts and LET them!

We need some godamned outrage.
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Alanofsac Donating Member (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-11 07:56 PM
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2. CIA & Drugs
The CIA has a long involvement with drug trafficking Mexico is just the latest involvement.

See "The politics of Heroin, CIA complicity in the global drug trade " Alfred McCoy and also

"The Great white lie" CIA and DEA involvement in the central American cocaine traffic
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