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More proof that drug kingpins were paid FBI informants
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Anthony Martin, Conservative Examiner
3/22/2012
"One of the strongest pieces of evidence proving that the Fast and Furious operation conducted by the ATF and the Department of Justice was not a sting operation at all but a scheme by which to justify more gun control laws is the fact that the supposed 'Mexican drug kingpins' targeted by the Feds turned out to be paid FBI informants.
There is now more proof today that these drug lords were cooperating with and working for the federal government.
In documents obtained over the weekend by the Times/Tribune, an incident is described concerning one Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta, a Mexican criminal with a known history of drugs and gun smuggling.
Celis-Acosta was arrested and questioned by ATF agents in May 2010 but released by agent Hope MacAllister after he promised her to stay in touch with the agency and provide them with crucial information on drug cartels.
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MacAllister had written her phone number on a $10 dollar bill when she released him. He disappeared into Mexico and never reported back to the ATF.
ATF agents had supposedly hoped that Celis-Acosta would lead them to two major drug kingpins in Mexico. But the documents obtained over the weekend show that those kingpins were serving as paid FBI informants.
According to the LA Times today, Congressman Darrell Issa, R-CA, and Senator Charles Grassley, R-IA, stated in a memo to the their respective committees in the House and Senate that the ATF should have known that the drug kingpins in question were FBI informants and shut down the operation immediately.
But regardless of whether or not the ATF agents on the ground knew that the kingpins were informants, top level Administration officials knew as indicated by hundreds of documents previously released by the Department of Justice.
Further, an internal Congressional memo made public in February shows that most if not all of the Mexican drug cartel suspects supposedly targeted by the ATF were paid FBI informants.
How, then, could a scheme such as Fast and Furious be described as a 'sting operation' when the very suspects it was designed to 'catch' were working for our own government?
The problem with the House investigation of Fast and Furious as it moves forward is that it is too narrowly focused. It has become obvious that multiple levels of the federal government were involved in the scandal, including the FBI, the State Department, and Homeland Security.
This suggests coordination at the very highest levels of the Obama Administration. And until someone, somewhere in this government discovers enough internal strength of conviction to go after corruption wherever it rears its ugly head, then no one involved in perpetrating the most widespread political scandal in U.S. history will ever be held accountable for their actions."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.examiner.com/conservative...fbi-informants
Examiner
Anthony Martin, Conservative Examiner
3/22/2012
"One of the strongest pieces of evidence proving that the Fast and Furious operation conducted by the ATF and the Department of Justice was not a sting operation at all but a scheme by which to justify more gun control laws is the fact that the supposed 'Mexican drug kingpins' targeted by the Feds turned out to be paid FBI informants.
There is now more proof today that these drug lords were cooperating with and working for the federal government.
In documents obtained over the weekend by the Times/Tribune, an incident is described concerning one Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta, a Mexican criminal with a known history of drugs and gun smuggling.
Celis-Acosta was arrested and questioned by ATF agents in May 2010 but released by agent Hope MacAllister after he promised her to stay in touch with the agency and provide them with crucial information on drug cartels.
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MacAllister had written her phone number on a $10 dollar bill when she released him. He disappeared into Mexico and never reported back to the ATF.
ATF agents had supposedly hoped that Celis-Acosta would lead them to two major drug kingpins in Mexico. But the documents obtained over the weekend show that those kingpins were serving as paid FBI informants.
According to the LA Times today, Congressman Darrell Issa, R-CA, and Senator Charles Grassley, R-IA, stated in a memo to the their respective committees in the House and Senate that the ATF should have known that the drug kingpins in question were FBI informants and shut down the operation immediately.
But regardless of whether or not the ATF agents on the ground knew that the kingpins were informants, top level Administration officials knew as indicated by hundreds of documents previously released by the Department of Justice.
Further, an internal Congressional memo made public in February shows that most if not all of the Mexican drug cartel suspects supposedly targeted by the ATF were paid FBI informants.
How, then, could a scheme such as Fast and Furious be described as a 'sting operation' when the very suspects it was designed to 'catch' were working for our own government?
The problem with the House investigation of Fast and Furious as it moves forward is that it is too narrowly focused. It has become obvious that multiple levels of the federal government were involved in the scandal, including the FBI, the State Department, and Homeland Security.
This suggests coordination at the very highest levels of the Obama Administration. And until someone, somewhere in this government discovers enough internal strength of conviction to go after corruption wherever it rears its ugly head, then no one involved in perpetrating the most widespread political scandal in U.S. history will ever be held accountable for their actions."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.examiner.com/conservative...fbi-informants
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