another leaked Justice Dept. memo

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_831.shtml


Leaked report: Drug traffickers obtained classified DEA documents from U.S. Embassy in Bogotá “at will”




Narco News has obtained yet more evidence supporting the maze of charges in a leaked Justice Department memo that links DEA agents in Colombia to narco-traffickers.

The memo, authored in late January 2004 by Justice Department attorney Thomas Kent, alleges that Drug Enforcement Administration agents on the front lines of the drug war in Colombia are on drug traffickers’ payrolls, engaged in money laundering and complicit in the murders of informants who knew too much about their nefarious activities.

After Narco News exposed the Kent memo in a January report, the DEA reacted initially with great concern to the corruption allegations, but only days later an agency spokesman dismissed the charges in the memo as being “unfounded.” The mainstream media followed the same script, with the Associated Press reporting that its sources claimed the Kent memo had been investigated and the probe found “no wrongdoing.”

However, since that January report, Narco News has uncovered additional DEA documents that lend further support to the charges in the Kent memo.

And now, yet another document (PDF) has found its way to this publication.

One of the charges leveled in this recently uncovered document is that “narco-traffickers knew a day in advance, with coordinates, when DEA/CNP were going to fumigate the marijuana/coca fields. Thus, they were always prepared to protect the fields.”

And why did they know?

This new DEA document reveals the following:

“During the interview with the Inspectors, the CS stated that over the last few years, he/she had been able to obtain between 50 to 60 documents from the BCO at will. This is not a new revelation to us . . . as we met with David Tinsley on January 2000; whereas GS Tinsley related to us that he had a CS that was obtaining documents from inside the BCO and showed us an original document, not a photocopy.”
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