Barack Obama knows what she female psycopaths have been doing in the postions of power he placed them in as well just as he knows SEC or Securities Exchange Commission Chairwoman has a long history of involvement with Bernie Madoff whosw money trail of spilt dsollar bills can be trtaced all the way to Israel and offshore accounts in between.It should be no surprise that Titan has Israeli crime connections as well just as does Skyway Communications whose DC-9 was caught in Mexico with 5.5 tons of cxocaine on board in April 2006.The U.S.government of W Bush as well as Barack Barry Soetoro Obama was and is infiltrated by Russian Israeli mafia just as it was on 9/11 when Israeli Mossad's Menachem Atzmon and his ICTS International and Huntleigh airport securirty allowed those planes to hit the New York WTC from Logan Airport Boston.And it was Titan Corp who employed Makram Chams owner of that Kwik Check mentioned in the 9/11 Commision Report who cashed checks sent from Sheik Mohamed Al Rashid bin Maktoum's Dubai by Kalid Sheik Mohamed.
And yet torture accomplise DEA Michele Leonhart not only employs the scum of Titan Corp of Level 3 to cheufer her around the worls in lieu of using DEA planes already available,but tries to pin the DC-9 on Vewnezuelan President Hugo Chavez when it is clear that the DC-9 was the property of both Titan and American-Israeli Michael Farkas' Skyway Communications !And the Gulfstream II that crashed in Yucatan,Mexico in 2007 after a stop over at Guantanamo and Venezuela and or Colombia was also an Israeli Russian mafia jet connected to the same Gulfstream II that cheufered Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign !SO WHY HASN'T OUR LITTLE WHITE JEWISH,(NON-SEMITIC), PRINCESS,MICHELE LEONHART, DONE SOMETHING ABOUT THAT? I'm sure her boss Barack Obama would appreciate it being brought to his attention that his Secretary of State allows Russian Jewish mafia who contributed to her ampaign war chest was also being allowed to use Guantnamo for its drug trafficking operations.And I'm sure abused San Diego DEA torture victim Daniel Chong would be glad to know Michele Leonhart was picking on someone her own political size for a change.
http://extrados.mforos.com/606888/6391401-avion-cia-con-coca-mafia-ruso-judia-giuliani-cardoen/
[cia-drugs] Hillary Clinton flew on plane owned by company linked to CIA renditions and organized crime
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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20071015 Hillary Clinton flew on plane owned by company linked to CIA renditions and organized crime publication date: Oct 15, 2007 Previous | Next October 15, 2007 -- Hillary Clinton flew on plane owned by company linked to CIA renditions and organized crime On September 24, 2007, a Gulfstream II (tail number N987SA) crashed landed in Yucatan, Mexico with 3.3 metric tons (3.7 tons) of cocaine on board.
The plane had recently been sold to Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc. of Coconut Creek, Florida, a firm owned by two Brazilians, and re-sold, shortly before the crash, to two Florida businessmen. N987SA had also flown patterns to and from Guantanamo Bay similar to those flown by CIA rendition aircraft Before being sold to Donna Blue, the Gulfstream had been owned by Air Rutter International, a firm with offices in Garden City, New York; Long Beach and Irvine, California, whose owner is Arik Kislin, the son of Sam Kislin. N987SA was owned by Kislin's business partner, William Achenbaum, an owner, along with Arik Kislin, of Manhattan's Hotel Gansevoort.
The plane had recently been sold to Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc. of Coconut Creek, Florida, a firm owned by two Brazilians, and re-sold, shortly before the crash, to two Florida businessmen. N987SA had also flown patterns to and from Guantanamo Bay similar to those flown by CIA rendition aircraft Before being sold to Donna Blue, the Gulfstream had been owned by Air Rutter International, a firm with offices in Garden City, New York; Long Beach and Irvine, California, whose owner is Arik Kislin, the son of Sam Kislin. N987SA was owned by Kislin's business partner, William Achenbaum, an owner, along with Arik Kislin, of Manhattan's Hotel Gansevoort.
Air Rutter leased out the aircraft. WMR has learned that another Air Rutter Gulfstream II (tail number N216RR) has flown presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, including a January 2007 stop in Des Moines, Iowa. The plane, which has a crew of 3, including a jump seat for a flight attendant, and can handle up to 13 passengers, has a fully galley, a private lavatory, plush leather seats, conference seats and table, CD/DVD entertainment system, a 21 inch monitor, satellite telephone system, and even an espresso machine.
On October 9, 2007, WMR reported: Arik's uncle, Semyon (Sam) Kislin, a member of the New York City Economic Development Board and immigrant from Odessa, has poured substantial political donations into the past campaigns in New York of Hillary Clinton and [Rudolph] Giuliani. He has also contributed to past campaigns of New York Senator Charles Schumer, former Republican Senator Alphonse D'Amato, and President Bill Clinton. The Center for Public Integrity has previously reported that a 1996 Interpol report connected Sam Kislin's Trans Commodities, Inc. to two reputed Uzbek mobsters, Lev and Mikhail Chernoy.
The Interpol connected Kislin's firm to the Chernoys' fraud and embezzlement schemes. Kislin confirmed that Mikhail Chernoy had been employed by his Trans Commodities firm. The Chernoy brothers are citizens of Israel. [The Chenoys have been linked to a worldwide empire of front companies and corporate shells in Monaco, the Bahamas, Cyprus, Switzerland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Israel, the Cayman Islands, Western Samoa, London, Isle of Man, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brighton Beach (Brooklyn), Liechtenstein, and Vanuatu].
Between 1994 and 1997, Sam Kislin and his wife Ludmila, gave Giuliani $14,250 in contributions. In 1997, after Giuliani maxed out on his GOP contributions, $9.7 million, Kislin donated $30,000 to Giuliani through the Liberal Party, the other ticket on which Giuliani was running for re-election as mayor. In May 1999, Sam Kislin co-chaired a Giuliani Senate race fundraiser at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in New York. The gathering raised $2.1 million for Giuliani's aborted senate campaign. Arik Kislin contributed $1000 to Giuliani's 1995 mayoral campaign and his Blonde Management shared office space with Sam Kislin's Trans Commodities. Sam Kislin, his wife Ludmila, their son David, and daughter Regina gave $2000 to Schumer's 1998 Senate campaign.
Sam also gave Schumer's opponent, D'Amato, $1000. Sam Kislin is also a prominent supporter of the United Jewish Appeal and Israel. Arik Kislin gave Hillary Clinton $4000 in 2006, specifically on Sept. 12, 2006. That same day an Olya Kislin also donated $4000 to Hillary Clinton. On October 1, 2007, the New York Post reported that an ex-employee of Air Rutter, Mark Billey, subsequently arrested on federal child sex charges, said he noted a number of armed U.S. Marshals at Air Rutter's facilities in Long Beach, however, given the connection between the firm and Clinton, the federal agents may have been part of Senator Clinton's Secret Service detail.
Clinton has made several fundraising visits to the Los Angeles area over the past year. On October 9, WMR also reported that Arik Kislin is associated with another airline company, Skookum Air, Inc. Government records indicate that Clinton's N216RR was owned by Skookum Air, as well as Air Rutter International, with the actual registered owner listed as GS-II Holdings, LLC, a firm registered in Delaware with offices listed at 35 E. 21st St. Suite 500, New York, NY. On October 4, 2007, when Senator Clinton visited Chicago to attend a "Republicans for Hillary" fundraiser at the Hyatt Regency, N216RR was parked at Chicago Midway Airport.
Recently, N216RR has been put up for sale.
Even Rupert Murdoch's Fx News acknowledges reality sometimes.When will Titan Corp torture,murder and drug trafficking connected DEA Michele Leonhart do so ?:
Afghan military recruits found dealing drugs to US soldiers, Army ...
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The invasion of Afghanistan? The heroin trade, destroyed by Taliban, was restored and is in its blossom era ever since. Don't ask me how these drugs make it to the West (perhaps on unchecked CIA and Pentagon planes). The Mexico-U.S. border is basically a war zone with armed forces, gangs and “law” ...
Army probes drug use by soldiers in Afghanistan after EIGHT soldiers fatally overdosed in one year
By Daily Mail ReporterThe U.S. Army has investigated 56 soldiers in Afghanistan on suspicion of using or distributing heroin, morphine or other opiates during 2010 and 2011.
Eight soldiers died of drug overdoses during that time, the newly obtained data also reveals.
While military officials says that the issue is not a pervasive one, a judicial watchdog claim the problem is more serious.
Drug problem: In a country awash with poppy fields that provide up to 90 percent of the world's opium, the U.S. military struggles to keep an eye on its far-flung troops and monitor for substance abuse
'We have seen sporadic cases of it, but we do not see it as a widespread problem, and we have the means to check,' said Colonel Tom Collins, an army spokesman.
However, Tom Fitton, president of conservative watchdog Judicial Watch who requested the investigation, said the problem is bigger than the military is prepared to admit, reports Associated Press.
They need to be more vigilant about watching and warning troops in Afghanistan about drug abuse, he warned.
'The danger, including the danger of dying, hasn't been fully acknowledged by the military and it needs to be,' he said.
Statistics released earlier this year reported nearly 70,000 drug offenses by roughly 36,000 soldiers between 2006 and 2011.
The number of offenses increased from about 9,400 in 2010 to about 11,200 in 2011.
The overdose totals for the two years, however, are double the number that the Defense Department has reported as drug-related deaths in Afghanistan for the last decade.
The data represents only the criminal investigations done by Army Criminal Investigation Command involving soldiers in Afghanistan during those two years.
Officials suggested that additional deaths may have been categorised as 'other' or were still under investigation when the statistics were submitted.
The cases provide a somber snapshot of the illicit trade in the war zone, including young Afghans peddling heroin, soldiers dying after mixing cocktails of opiates, troops stealing from medical bags and Afghan soldiers and police dealing drugs to their U.S. comrades.
Army officials say they do random drug testing through the service and the goal is that every soldier is tested at least once a year.
Top military leaders have said they have not met that goal, but have been working steadily to substantially increase the number of those tested each year.
The officials also say the Army's Criminal Investigative Division has quarterly drug statistics that show that drug use by troops in Afghanistan is not greater than that of troops in installations back in the United States and there is less of a variance in drugs used by troops in Afghanistan.
The Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps have not yet responded to the request for similar information.
The army reports blacked out the names of the soldiers who were under investigation as well any resolution of their cases or punishments they may have received.
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http://www.examiner.com/county-political-buzz-in-san-diego/house-of-death-u-s-government-cover-up-unveiled
In the months before Washington decided to move on Santillan, the backyard of the Juarez house at 3633 Calle Parsonieros was filling up with tortured murdered corpses.
The term “carne asada” was used frequently to discuss murders that were about to take place. Each time Lalo had to get permission from his ICE handlers to cross the Mexico border to witness the murders and then report back to the U.S. government.
The House of Death case was spiraling out of control. In testimony at Gonzalez’ discrimination trial in federal court, current Acting Administrator Michelle Leonhart acknowledged under oath that she notified Attorney General Ashcroft about the House of Death, and then DEA Administrator Karen Tandy did so as well. Tandy also testified to the fact the House of Death case was being handled at the highest levels of the Department of Justice.
In addition to the highest levels of the Justice Department, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson were also briefed about the case. This was testified to under oath by DEA Chief of Operations Michael Furgason at the same civil trial.
By this time the cover-up is in full swing and DOJ, ICE and DEA are all willing participants.
In early February of 2004 Gonzalez was directed by DEA Headquarters to get to the bottom of the House of Death debacle. As a result, Gonzalez conducted relevant inquiries, which led to a letter he sent to his counterpart at ICE and to the U.S. Attorney’s Office on February 24, 2004. In the letter, Gonzalez said it was unacceptable that DEA agents and their families were placed in grave danger by the recklessness of ICE in the handling of the Santillan case.
“This resulted in the unnecessary loss of human life in the Republic of Mexico,” Gonzalez said in a letter to his counterpart the SAC for ICE as well as U.S. Attorney Sutton’s office.
Regarding the letter, during sworn testimony Leonhart claimed that Gonzalez should have cleared the letter with her office prior to sending it. She also said in the past, “I remember occasions when he would have issues with the U.S. Attorney’s office and would even show me a draft letter before he went and sent it or would talk to headquarters and get some guidance before he would send it.” This came as a surprise to Gonzalez and he made it clear during his rebuttal testimony that was not DEA procedure as he was a Senior DEA Executive in charge of a Field Division and had the authority to sign official correspondence on behalf of DEA in his division.
According to Gonzalez’ letter, “Following the August murder of Fernando LNU in 2003, ICE agents requested several country clearances for the informant to travel to Juarez. They continued sending the informant to Juarez while failing to report his activities to DEA as required by internal agreements.”
The letter also included a meeting that took place right after the first murder between FBI, DEA and ICE to discuss the Mexican Police corruption matter as well as the murder. However, ICE blew the meeting off, according to Gonzalez. “This should have ended at the August 11, 2003 meeting.”
“Once it was known that at least 12 murders had taken place at the house, ICE would not let Lalo give a statement to the Mexican authorities for several weeks,” Gonzalez said. “He finally gave his statement regarding the violence and brutality that took place in Juarez from August 2003 to January 2004.”
According to Gonzalez, “weeks later, when Lalo was finally made available to DEA for debriefing, ICE set up some ground rules notifying all parties that Lalo could not be asked about his activities prior to January 14, 2004.”
Gonzalez maintains this game playing by the U.S. amounts to nothing more than obstructing an investigation. In his letter, he wrote “This situation is so bizarre; I have never come across such callous behavior by fellow law enforcement officers.”
Catherine O'Neil, director of the DOJ's Organized Crime Task Force, described Gonzalez’ letter as “inflammatory.” She passed on Sutton's fears to the then Attorney General, John Ashcroft and then to DEA Administrator Karen Tandy.
Tandy explains she was horrified by Gonzalez' letter. “I apologized to Johnny Sutton last night and he and I agreed on a ‘no comment’ to the press.”
Gonzalez would be removed from the House of Death case and ordered not to talk about it to the press.
As a result of conflicting reports about the situation by both DEA and ICE, a Joint Assessment Team was convened to review the situation. More than 40 people were interviewed on both sides of the border. According to Gonzalez, he was blocked from gaining a copy of the report, though during his civil trial then Deputy Administrator Leonhart stated he had been informed he’d get a copy of it.
“There have been several Freedom of Information Act requests for this document,” said Andy Ramirez of the Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council who has been following this case. “I think the JAT report would answer a lot of questions concerning the mishandling of the House of Death case. If everything is kosher why not release the report?”
Gonzalez concurs, “They (ICE and DEA) needed to get their stories straight. It was clear that DEA and ICE had a strained relationship and there was a lot of finger pointing, but in the end DEA was out of the loop. We had the wisdom to deactivate Lalo when he tried to cross the U.S. border with 100 pounds of marijuana, however; ICE kept him around.”
The letter Gonzalez wrote would be validated by the findings in the JAT report and to this day Gonzalez has never been challenged on the facts he presented in his letter.
“The proof is in the pudding,” Gonzalez said. “The jury didn’t buy anything that the government was saying during my civil trial, and I won.”
Adding to this is the simple fact that on page 516 of the official trial record, then Deputy Administrator Leonhart testified in regards to responsibility over the House of Death, “ICE was responsible, yes…ICE caused the incident.”
Coincidentally, four of the five agency employees who testified against Gonzalez were presidential appointees, and three seemed okay with what took place within the House of Death case. They were not hesitant to throw Gonzalez under the bus for questioning it in writing.
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This would be the beginning of the end for Lalo. He simply faded into the Texas backdrop until August of 2004 when someone tried to shoot him in El Paso He escaped injury, when he had a fellow snitch go on his behalf instead.
Lalo was then taken into protective custody and in May 2005, ICE, the agency that had cherished him, began legal proceedings to deport him to Mexico. This amounted to a death sentence for an ex-Mexican police officer turned drug dealer turned U.S. snitch.
Why send a former U.S. snitch who earned more than $250,000 from Uncle Sam to certain death. Obama made sure the Uighurs from China were released from Gitmo to Bermuda because they would have been murdered if they returned to China.
In a recent statement from DOJ, “I am told that this is a matter currently in litigation and we would, therefore, not be able to comment,” said Charles Miller of the Department of Justice. Yet, when pressed about the case against Santillan has been closed, DOJ declined to answer.
A similar answer came from the DEA; “The DEA will not comment on this deportation matter because immigration matters in general are outside our jurisdiction, and this case specifically was not a DEA case. In addition, DEA does not speak for DOJ on policy matters.”
Basically, DEA continues its stance on not commenting regarding the deportation of Lalo to Mexico, which amounts to a death sentence. It is also worth pointing out that if Lalo dies, so does the embarrassment of the House of Death incident for the U.S.
And finally ICE had no comment regarding their former informant, Lalo.
All the while the record shows that Acting Administrator Leonhart stated under oath that ICE was responsible for the House of Death case.
Andy Ramirez who has worked and investigated legal cases against law enforcement officers as well as border security compromises sums it up best.
“The undeniable fact is that Attorney General Ashcroft, USA Johnny Sutton, and the Justice Department refused to prosecute Santillan for his role in the murders (in the plea deal for drugs), and any of the other key figures in this and other cases. This cadre clearly protected the bad guys at all costs by keeping them out of the courtroom where possible and sealing their crimes or cutting plea deals for lower crimes,” said Ramirez
“Of course the irony here is one can take the words from Sutton’s press briefings, releases and media tour, between 2006 and 2008, where he talks about agents he prosecuted for significantly lower crimes with distorted circumstantial evidence. For the most part, a pattern of hypocrisy and a clear lack of candor exists,” states Ramirez.
He continues, “In essence the U.S. Government’s Executive Branch (DOJ, DEA, DHS, & ICE) have conspired to cover this case up with their refusals to comment, as well as what are called ‘non-denial denials’ of the FOIA requests for the JAT report, and it all started when Sandy wrote his letter to ICE and Sutton.”
But as Ramirez testified before the House Homeland Security Committee in 2007, “Mexico does not know what corruption is, they come to El Paso to learn.”
“Nothing about this case, outside of their attempt to deport Lalo to certain death has been transparent. To me there is a clear-cut case for obstruction of justice by ordering Lalo not to wear the wire, conspiracy to obstruct when someone orders Sandy to not write any more memos and to not talk to the media, though Sutton clearly initiates that by calling DC and not talking with Sandy about it,” Ramirez explains.
“But what is most amazing is that unlike other patterns in cases I’ve observed, Mexico has not screamed foul. I’d say their silence has been quite deafening,” concluded Ramirez.
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http://www.examiner.com/article/house-of-death-dea-agent-leonhart-and-an-obama-nomination
House of Death, DEA Agent Leonhart and an Obama nomination
It’s been more than a year since Obama took office and his administration has been slow to fill top cabinet posts throughout the government. Many of Obama’s nominees failed the routine vetting process for a variety of reasons including; non-payment of taxes, communist leanings, illegally eavesdropping and now covering-up a 12-murder spree along the U.S./Mexico border.
Michele M. Leonhart is the acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration within the Department of Justice and the president is looking to make her post permanent.
“The skill and dedication of these individuals will make them valued additions to my administration, and I look forward to working with them in the coming months and years,” said Obama in a press release.
Special Agent Leonhart has served in senior management roles in DEA headquarters as well as many Field Divisions across the U.S. Leonhart was also DEA’s first female Special Agent in Charge (“SAC”) and later became the SAC for the third largest field division, the DEA office in Los Angeles. She first joined the DEA in 1980 as a Special Agent in Minneapolis and St. Louis until moving up the DEA's supervisory ranks in 1988.
It all looks good on paper, but when the vetting process begins to unravel, Leonhart’s competency comes apart at the seams.
The House of Death in Juarez Mexico
The House of Death is synonymous with torture, murder, cover-up and corruption in the highest order. The single most concerning aspect of this isn’t the murder itself, but rather the fact that the U.S. government not only knew about the dozen murders, but it directed an ICE informant to continue to collect information regarding a big Juarez cartel player, Heriberto Santillan-Tabares.
It is worth pointing out that there was already a pending drug case on Santillan (a top lieutenant of the drug cartel in Juarez) before the murders happened at the House of Death. In the end, he would be sent to prison for more than 25 years on the original drug charges, not for the murders he authorized and was charged with in the superseding indictment of February 18, 2004.
The House of Death case was spiraling out of control in El Paso. In testimony at former DEA El Paso SAC Sandalio Gonzalez’ discrimination trial in federal court, current Acting Administrator Leonhart acknowledged under oath that she notified Attorney General Ashcroft about the House of Death, and then DEA Administrator Karen Tandy did so as well. Tandy also testified to the fact the House of Death case was being handled at the highest levels of the Department of Justice.
In the end it would be the SAC from the DEA office in El Paso who would blow the whistle on this little shop of horrors after fellow DEA agents, residing in Juarez, were put in harm’s way. This led to the complete evacuation of DEA personnel in Juarez.
Sandalio Gonzalez, the DEA special agent in charge of El Paso ended the nonsense and fired off a four-page letter to his counterpart at ICE (John Gaudioso) as well as U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton. The fiery letter blasted those involved with the murder spree in Mexico under the guise of drug trafficking undercover infiltration of the Juarez cartel. The letter also did something nobody in DEA, ICE, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice wanted – provide a paper trail.
The letter laid out the case of travesty that U.S. law enforcement agencies overstepped their bounds and allowed 12 murders to take place. Adding fuel to the fire Gonzalez was reprimanded for writing the letter about the shenanigans at the House of Death. He would be removed from the House of Death case by his superiors in Washington and ordered not to talk about it to the press.
This would not be the end of Gonzalez’ involvement in the House of Death. During sworn testimony at his civil trial for workplace retaliation, Leonhart claimed that Gonzalez should have cleared the letter with her office prior to sending it. This would be her first lie under oath. As a SAC for DEA, Gonzalez was completely within his power to write a letter to his counterpart at ICE and to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, about the obvious mishandling of an investigation involving a dozen murders.
Lie number two would come in the context of this, “I remember occasions when he (Gonzalez) would have issues with the U.S. Attorney’s office and would even show me a draft letter before he went and sent it or would talk to headquarters and get some guidance before he would send it.” This was news to Gonzalez and he made it crystal clear in his rebuttal testimony that was not DEA protocol because he was a Senior DEA Executive in charge of a Field Division. This gave him the authority to sign official correspondence on behalf of DEA in his division.
The criticism didn’t stop with Leonhart. Catherine O'Neil, director of the DOJ's Organized Crime Task Force, described Gonzalez’ letter as “inflammatory.” O’Neil was compelled to pass on U.S. Attorney Sutton's fears to the Attorney General, John Ashcroft as well as DEA Administrator Karen Tandy. (Link to letter http://www.advocatescouncil.us/pdf/Letter2BICE-Sutton_HouseOfDeath.pdf)
Tandy explains she was horrified by Gonzalez' letter. “I apologized to Johnny Sutton last night and he and I agreed on a ‘no comment’ to the press,” she stated in an email.
Leonhart, the current Deputy Administrator of DEA, further explains her frustration in court testimony; “Mr. Gonzalez, by writing the letter [to his counterpart at ICE and U.S. Attorney Sutton], it was at an inappropriate time, it was inflammable. It was nothing new. It was information that we already knew and had relayed to the highest levels of the DOJ, Department of Justice and ICE.” Begging the question if all the players in D.C. knew about the murderous rampage why did they do nothing to shut the operation down?
Even with Leonhart and other present and former DEA top executives testifying against him under oath, in December 2006 the jury in Gonzalez’ civil action ruled in his favor by finding that the DEA had retaliated against him in violation of the federal Civil Rights Act.
House of Death blows up
The event that would shut down the operation in Juarez was a credible threat to DEA agents by corrupt Juarez police and paranoid drug cartel leaders. “Because I'm the deputy administrator, when there are critical incidents or serious matters, I'm briefed very often by the chief of operations. And it was brought to my attention that we had an agent and his family pulled over by a Mexican police officer and some other individuals [on Jan. 14, 2004], and I was also advised that we believed that those people had been to his [the DEA agent’s] home earlier,” Leonhart said on the record.
Once the fallout settled Washington ordered a Joint Assessment Team (JAT) consisting of both ICE and DEA personnel, which interviewed more than 40 participants on both sides of the border.
In essence, it is believed that the JAT report details the government’s complicity in the House of Death murders, which, it could be argued, essentially makes the U.S. government a co-conspirator in the homicides along with Santillan’s narco-trafficking cell in Juarez.
A letter from DEA headquarters in Washington and the Department of Justice, to U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton’s office is proof that the JAT report does in fact exist. It also shows that Washington was concerned enough about a possible public relations disaster and then they buried the JAT report and settled their case against Santillan in a plea deal which didn’t include any murder charges.
The memorandum read, “This is a partial response to your letter of April 6, 2004, to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) El Paso Division Special Agent in Charge Sandalio Gonzalez concerning the captioned [Santillan] case. In that letter you requested any and all impeaching or otherwise exculpatory information relating to two essential witnesses for the Government (namely), Eduardo Ramirez, a.k.a Lalo [the ICE informant] (and) Jose Jaime Marquez [Ramirez’ assistant in the House of Death murders].
More specifically, this memorandum is in response to paragraph 10 of your letter in which you requested ‘(a) copy of the final report, any internal memorandum or other documents prepared by the joint management inquiry team [the DEA/ICE Joint Assessment Team].’ Please note that the enclosed final report also includes a ‘Joint Assessment Team Timeline,’ which is referenced in paragraph “9” of your letter. This report is being provided to you in its entirety because we fully appreciate your office’s need to review all potentially relevant information with regard to the Santillan-Tabares case, and we understand that disclosure of this information outside of the United States Attorney’s office will not be made without further notification to, and consultation with, DEA,” the memo states.
It was expected that Sutton would have shut down the case after the first murder, according to Bill Weaver, a law professor at the University of Texas at El Paso who has written extensively about the murder case. Sutton should have told ICE to “go with what you have, and let's try to bring Santillan to justice.”
The letter from Washington makes it very clear to Sutton’s office that great efforts are needed to assure the JAT report did not fall into the hands of Santillan’s lawyer or otherwise become public. And, as a matter of fact, Santillan’s case never did go to trial. A pending case on Santillan for drug charges would be used to send him to prison for more than 25 years. He would not face the murder charges that he authorized and was charged with in the superseding indictment of February 18, 2004. In essence, Sutton cut a plea deal with him, dropping all the murder charges and assuring that the JAT report never saw the light of day.
The Washington letter directly links U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, to the House of Death cover-up and proves that his office is in possession of the JAT report that could expose the Bush Administration’s complicity in a dozen murders in Juarez, Mexico. There have been several Freedom of Information Act requests filed to get the JAT report, but none have been successful and the report remains buried in Washington D.C.
Further court testimony explains who was notified once the House of Death came to an end and of the plan in place with the acknowledged approval of the attorney general on how to handle the investigation of what events occurred in Ciudad Juarez.
Leonhart describes what happened next. “We notified the attorney general of the United States and the deputy attorney general of the United States [James Comey] of what we had learned and the events and our concerns. We told him that we had talked to customs and let them know what we had found out. Our administrator [DEA’s Karen Tandy] had also contacted the U.S. Attorney's Office [Sutton in San Antonio], and we thought the best thing we could do is get the agencies together, put an independent review team together to go down and find the facts because the person I was talking to said he had a different set of facts and didn't see it the way that we saw it.”
When asked if the case was being handled at the highest levels of government Leonhart’s replies, “absolutely.” She then goes on to place the blame for the House of Death murder spree on ICE. “Yes, it was ICE’s fault.”
Another glitch on the resume
This dubious death case is not the only question mark in Leonhart’s DEA resume. She had an association with super-snitch Andrew Chambers. This informant who reported to Leonhart directly cost taxpayers $2.2 million. During his tenure working for Leonhart, he was caught perjuring himself repeatedly.
“The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals called him (Chambers) a liar and the 8th Circuit of Court of Appeals echoed that verdict two years later.”
According to StopTheDrugWar.org Leonhart continued to use Chambers and the DEA protected him. “The DEA protected him, failing to notify prosecutors and defense attorneys about his record. At one point, DEA and the Justice Department for 17 months stalled a public defender seeking to examine the results of DEA's background check on Chambers. Even after the agency knew its snitch was rotten, it refused to stop using Chambers, and it took the intervention of then Attorney General Janet Reno to force the agency to quit using him.
When Leonhart was repeatedly questioned about Chambers regarding his credibility problems, and if the agency should stop using him, she replied, "That would be a sad day for DEA, and a sad day for anybody in the law enforcement world. He's one in a million. In my career, I'll probably never come across another Andrew."
Another Leonhart shocking statement about Chambers includes this, "The only criticism (of Chambers) I've ever heard is what defense attorneys will characterize as perjury or a lie on the stand.” She goes on to say Chambers “is an outstanding testifier." Really?
The House of Death and non-trustworthy informant, Chambers, provide a pattern for critics and directly questions Leonhart’s ability to reliably make important decisions.
The beginning of the end for the House of Death
As a result of conflicting reports about the situation by both DEA and ICE, the Joint Assessment Team was convened to review the situation. According to Gonzalez, he was blocked from gaining a copy of the report, though during his civil trial then Deputy Administrator Leonhart stated he had been informed he’d get a copy of it. Gonzalez, who retired in 2005, never saw the JAT report even though he was the DEA SAC in El Paso, and the team putting together the report questioned him directly.
Gonzalez believes, “They (ICE and DEA) needed to get their stories straight. It was clear that DEA and ICE had a strained relationship and there was a lot of finger pointing, but in the end DEA was out of the loop. We had the wisdom to deactivate Lalo when he tried to cross the U.S. border with 100 pounds of marijuana, however; ICE kept him around.”
At this point, former U.S. Attorney Pete Nunez said, “Heads should have rolled in this case.” Yet no high-ranking U.S. officials lost their jobs, nor were they prosecuted.
In April of 2004 a plea agreement was reached regarding the murders in the House of Death case. The cartel leader, Santillan pled guilty to drug trafficking while the murder charges were dropped.
Sutton’s involvement with the House of Death would not be the last high profile case he would be in charge of. He was directly involved with the Ramos and Compean case in which two Border Patrol Agents were convicted of shooting a drug dealer illegally and for their mishandling of the case they received 10-11 years of prison time. (President Bush would later commute their sentences on his last day in office).
“This case (Ramos-Compean) was a skunk. It had a terrible odor,” explains Congressman Walter B. Jones-R NC. “I always wondered why there was no investigation in this matter and why the Mexican Government had so much sway in this American case involving Border Patrol Agents.”
For Congressman Jones and a few other Congressional members the story is becoming increasingly clear, referring to the House of Death. “This conspiracy, corruption and cover-up screams for immediate Congressional investigation.”
“Wrong is wrong, and after reading more about this case it was expected that Sutton would have shut down the House of Death case after the first murder. He did not. We need to remember we are a nation of laws,” Jones finished.
The fact remains that Gonzalez’ letter guaranteed an honest agent put something on record confronting the issue of murder itself. That could not be buried as it was his memo, unlike the JAT team report, the official interagency report, which remains buried to this date. The result is a full cover up of murder with conspiracy to cover-up accessories to murder and obstruction of justice all the way up DHS and DOJ.
With the nomination of the top DEA post by President Obama, Leonhart and the circumstances surrounding the House of Death require a full investigation. If this case was indeed mishandled, Leonhart was a big player smack dab in the middle of a cover up of a murder spree in a foreign country.
Why do mainstream media and many Washington players ignore the fact the U.S. government consented to a dozen gruesome murders? In Mexico murder may be the norm, but in America the rule of law rules the day. Yet, Congress and the media continue to waste time with the college football championships and baseball stars that use steroids. America is screaming for change in Washington, perhaps this DEA appointment by Obama will shed some light on a dark period in American history.
Part two will post tomorrow.
Alternatives to a drug trafficking U.S. Miliray,State Department and DEA :
http://www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/opinion/150690185.html
Consider This: Legalization the best way to win war on drugs
First of all, I want to let readers know that I am not on any dope and never was. I don’t even drink or smoke. Second, what I am going to write has strongly opinionated opponents, starting with my wife.
The so-called war on drugs is a total failure. Think of it: The British Empire, a colonial power, waged war with China some 200 years ago. The aim? Control of the opium trade. The Vietnam War brought to the U.S. an abundance of drugs from the Golden Triangle. The Reagan era is well known for its Iran-Contra scandal, when Central American terrorists got U.S. weapons and the CIA got their drugs.
The invasion of Afghanistan? The heroin trade, destroyed by Taliban, was restored and is in its blossom era ever since. Don’t ask me how these drugs make it to the West (perhaps on unchecked CIA and Pentagon planes). The Mexico-U.S. border is basically a war zone with armed forces, gangs and “law” enforcers fighting for a slice of that pie, with deaths running into the hundreds of thousands. (Ciudad Juarez leads the pack with 30,000 drug-related corpses in the past six years alone. And believe me, you don’t want to see pictures of those murdered mutilated bodies). In Columbia, the cocaine war has been going on for the past 40 years with no tangible result.
The war on drugs is in fact a war for drugs.
I heard that in the Creston Valley there are 12 undercover cops busting one marijuana grow-op after another while other grow-ops are mushrooming. Folks, that’s a failure with an estimated $2 million cost to taxpayers, year in, year out, in our small valley. (That could run our recreation complex for free, indefinitely.) Never mind that it clogs the courts, fines or locks up small users and dealers, and fattens big fish that are never to be fried.
The solution? Legalize, regulate, educate. Cut criminal elements off, and free the cops, courts and taxpayers’ money for real issues like prevention, education, outdoor activities and sports. Like alcohol and tobacco, whoever wants it will get it anyway. Prohibition in the U.S. brought Al Capone and his kind to the top. Gorbachev tried the same in 1980s and you know the result.
Once, a kid about 12 years old asked me for a smoke. I answered that I don’t smoke and that there are only two groups of smokers: rich and stupid. I added, “You are apparently not stupid so you must be rich.” He replied, “Not really,” and walked away. I hope that encounter got him thinking and perhaps helped him a bit on the way out.
Can we find creative ways to deal with drugs? Prohibition simply does not work. Many law enforcement officials and politicians came to the same conclusion. Countries that legalized drugs have noticed a drop in crimes and no increase in drug use. While I do not advocate use of any harmful substance I see clearly that the current approach is an abysmal failure. Treating drugs like alcohol and tobacco (starting with legalizing marijuana) will give us a better alternative, saving society’s resources.
Vladimir Certik believes that thinking outside the box and engaging fellow citizens may bring simple solutions to complex problems. The West Creston resident can be reached at 250-402-0055 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 250-402-0055 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
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More than most career government bureaucrats, Leonhart, a veteran of more than 20 years in the U.S. War on Drugs, has had an experience of the surreal which is unique in government service.
But in her zeal to acquire drug trafficker Walid Mackled, a $25 chip in a high stakes game of Liar's Poker pitting the U.S.’s ongoing propaganda onslaught against stubborn and recalcitrant Venezuelan strongman Chavez, Leonhart has stepped blindly into the Twilight Zone.- Daniel Hopsicker,madcowprod.com
http://www.madcowprod.com/11112010.htm
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"The New American Drug Lords"
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In a week which
began with the dubious Pentagon assertion that video footage of a missile launch
shot by a KCBS news helicopter over Los Angeles was a vapor trail from a
commercial jet distorted by light on the horizon at sunset, the notion that
another federal agency could come up with a more ridiculous claim before the
week was out seemed well-nigh impossible.
But that’s just what
happened...
Just months after Wachovia Bank was assessed a record $160 million fine for laundering drug money used to buy a fleet of drug planes for Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, the curious case of an American-registered airliner busted in the Yucatan carrying a massive multi-ton load of cocaine has burst back into the news... with a vengeance.
The U.S. claims to have identified the
global narcotics trafficker and “king among kingpins” who
“coordinated the transportation to Mexico” of the now-famous last flight of a
DC9 which took off from St. Petersburg FL on April 5 2006 before being busted,
five days later, carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine.
In an indictment
unsealed this week in Manhattan, Federal prosecutors fingered Syrian-born
Walid Makled-Garcia, 43, a former crony of Venezuelan strongman
Hugo Chavez, as the man behind the flight.
The meaning of
the massive drug bust on an American-registered plane, in which the American
owners suffered no consequences for having their plane caught with
5.5 tons of cocaine, has ignited controversy and been the subject of an ongoing
investigation reported almost exclusively by this website for the past four
years, and is the subject of
a just-released
2-hour documentary.
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But
instead of ton tons amonth, 
But
not so fast... Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez plans to get there first. 
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