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JonLP24

(29,961 posts)
24. Generally the higher up the pyramid the less policing there is
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:03 PM
Mar 2015

There were some notable international drug traffickers who sold more dope than anyone that were friends of the DEA. I hard about this years ago wasn't hard to find


DEA informants Feds Confirm Mumbai Plotter Trained With Terrorists While Working for DEA

The revelations came after a report Friday by ProPublica and the Washington Post that the FBI had been warned about Headley’s terrorist ties three years before the Mumbai attacks. Headley wasn’t arrested until 11 months after the attack.

After Headley was arrested in a 2005 domestic dispute in New York City, his wife told federal investigators about his long involvement with the terrorist group Lashkar-i-Taiba and his extensive training in its Pakistani camps. She also told them he had bragged about being a paid U.S. informant while undergoing terrorist training.

Despite a federal inquiry into the tip, Headley spent the next four years doing terrorist reconnaissance around the world. Between 2006 and 2008, he did five spying missions in Mumbai scouting targets for the attack by Lashkar that killed 166 people, including six Americans.

On Saturday, the New York Times reported that another of Headley’s wives – he apparently was married to three women at the same time – had also warned U.S. officials about his terrorism involvement. In December 2007, the Moroccan woman met with officials at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan and told them about Headley’s friendship with Lashkar members, his hatred of India and her trips with him to the Taj Mahal Hotel, a prime target of the Mumbai attacks, the Times reported.

http://www.propublica.org/article/feds-confirm-mumbai-plotter-trained-with-terrorists-while-working-for-dea

Every time I see Pakistan come across it is also a middle man to all this shit.

I do like the truth told here

“You know, if we go out there and start messing with those folks, they know judges, they know lawyers, they know politicians. You start locking their kids up, somebody’s going to jerk our chain.” He said they’re going to call us on it, and before you know it, they’re going to shut us down, and there goes your overtime.

Really out of the Wire which was probably the most real fact or fiction show I ever seen. Really told the truth, you can get a warrant signed if you agree to help him move some furniture.

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Everyone who is surprised by this stand on your head... hifiguy Mar 2015 #1
I'm not standing on my head, but it's important to have confirmation. KansDem Mar 2015 #4
All you would have to do is open your eyes and look around. hobbit709 Mar 2015 #6
America's drug laws exist to imprison minorities so they cant vote NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #2
Bingo! Or can't revolt. Plus, they're used as slave labor in for-profit prisons. valerief Mar 2015 #8
Also so there is less competition in the job market brush Mar 2015 #10
I recently saw a story that some privatize business came out with a new GED JonLP24 Mar 2015 #25
Wow! I hadn't heard about that brush Mar 2015 #29
And so some corporation can make $40k a year off of them. CrispyQ Mar 2015 #13
Slave labor as well malaise Mar 2015 #14
One of many racist motivations. It's shameful and sickening. We are better than this. InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2015 #26
This should be obvious to anybody who isn't naive or willfully blind, but it's always nice to hear Chakab Mar 2015 #3
I remember upscale parties with lines of coke in the bathrooms Warpy Mar 2015 #5
White people were getting busted. That's why prohibition ended. Major Nikon Mar 2015 #7
White people in my area are getting thrown into jail in my area to though its only the poor ones. cstanleytech Mar 2015 #16
Not just the war on drugs. In my town once the real crackdown on drunk driving started, you saw brewens Mar 2015 #9
What was interesting that you mentioned that which reminded me out of all the nightclubs I went to JonLP24 Mar 2015 #27
Again, more examples of our current plutocracy. Rex Mar 2015 #11
DEA needs to be shut down. hunter Mar 2015 #12
Point, Set and Match. Baitball Blogger Mar 2015 #15
Don't enforce the laws in wealthy white areas?? OldRedneck Mar 2015 #17
No Surprise Here cantbeserious Mar 2015 #18
Liberty and justice for all! moondust Mar 2015 #19
K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Mar 2015 #20
in other news, water is wet, sun comes up in east. niyad Mar 2015 #21
The Melanin Tax. n/t Orsino Mar 2015 #22
Anybody noticing a pattern here? Octafish Mar 2015 #23
Generally the higher up the pyramid the less policing there is JonLP24 Mar 2015 #24
When the duct tape Newest Reality Mar 2015 #28
(nice imagery) n/t Alkene Mar 2015 #30
Safeguarding one's own Job becomes Job #1 One_Life_To_Give Mar 2015 #31
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