The House of Death at 3633 Parsioneros in Ciudad Juarez, located just south of El Paso, Texas, became part of a macabre parade of homes earlier this year when two additional houses in the Mexican border city grabbed headlines due to their similar landscaping features.

Like the Parsioneros house, where 12 bodies were found buried in the backyard, these latest homes also boast backyards that doubled as graveyards.

I was headed to Ciudad Juarez, despite the U.S. State Department warnings urging U.S. citizens to avoid this Mexican border town because it is too dangerous.

In recent months, Juarez has been engulfed in bloodshed due, according to mainstream media reports, to a violent turf war being waged by narco-traffickers. The bloodshed in recent months has been so extreme (some 200-plus murders since the beginning of the year) that Mexican president Felipe Calderon recently deployed hundreds of federal police and military troopers to the city.

Federal Aviation Administration records obtained recently by Narco News offer some razor sharp evidence that a fat line of connections in the ongoing cocaine plane mystery leads right back to the nose of the U.S. government.

At the time a Gulfstream II jet, packed with nearly four tons of cocaine, crashed in Mexico’s Yucatan on Sept. 24 of last year, the owners of that jet were Clyde O’Connor and Greg Smith — both pilots who hail from Florida.

On the heels of a Washington Times report yesterday, CNN is now breathlessly reporting that the boss of one of the employees embroiled in the State Department passport scandal is a “ consultant to the Barack Obama campaign.”

That “consultant,” is John O. Brennan, a veteran intelligence official who served as former CIA Director George Tenet’s right-hand man in both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Brennan’s employee is still on the job but allegedly cooperating with the federal government’s investigation into the passport breaches, according to CNN.

But what CNN is not telling you is who sits above Brennan in the corporate food chain in this tale of presidential intrigue.

The Washington Times is reporting tonight that one of the contract employees involved in the State Department passport scandal works for a company whose CEO is linked to Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign — as an advisor “on intelligence and foreign policy.”

The Times, owned by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, reports:

The … employee is the only individual to have accessed both Mr. Obama's and Mr. McCain's passport information without proper authorization, a State Department spokesman said. That employee, who was not named, triggered an electronic alarm system, officials familiar with the probe said.

The company in question is The Analysis Corp., headed by John O. Brennan.

But what the Washington Times fails to mention in their hit piece disguised as serious journalism is that Brennan also has long ties to the Bush administration, as well as former CIA Director George Tenet – originally a Bill Clinton appointee.

Mexican state police commander Fernando Lozano Sandoval is currently recovering from multiple gunshot wounds inflicted after gunmen ambushed his SUV on a boulevard in Ciudad Juárez on Monday evening. Jan. 21.

Lozano was one of three Mexican cops gunned down during a bloody shooting spree over the course of Jan. 20 and 21 in Juárez. The other two cops, who were municipal police officers, were not so lucky. They are both dead.

But Lozano is not receiving the critical medical attention he needs in a Juárez hospital. He is, in fact, under the care of physicians and nurses at El Paso’s Thomason Hospital, which is now under the armed protection of U.S. law enforcement officers.

The extreme security at Thomason has created a backlash in the Texas community of El Paso, located just across the Rio Grande from Juárez. Press reports indicate that El Paso residents are concerned about the safety of their community due to the Lozano’s presence, fearing that their city has now been thrust into the front lines of Mexico’s bloody narco-trafficking turf war.  

If that is the case, it may well be officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that have put El Paso in that position. ICE sources tell Narco News that Lozano is an ICE informant who was marked for assassination because narco-traffickers in Juárez believe he tipped off U.S. law enforcers to the location of a stash house in the El Paso area that contained more than five tons of marijuana.

The Super Tuesday presidential primary that played out yesterday may have grabbed the national spotlight in recent weeks, but there was another vote taken recently that shined attention on a peculiarly clueless Congresswoman in Florida.

U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite managed to invoke the ire of the entire Puerto Rican community due to her reservations about the proposed economic stimulus package approved on Jan. 29 by the House — and now awaiting U.S. Senate action.

In fact, Brown-Waite, as a result of her lack of wit, became the subject of a resolution approved in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives earlier this week that demands she make a public apology.

And what did this fine solar-baked Caucasian Congresswoman from the Sunshine State do to deserve that dubious recognition?

Julie Myers, who heads Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), unmasked her true character recently at a Halloween party she hosted on behalf of a charity.

The event was meant to raise money for the Combined Federal Campaign, which is a federal government charity effort similar to the United Way campaign. But Myers must have deemed it an appropriate event to also raise awareness of her affinity for the bygone era of Minstrel shows.

Myers, the leader of a federal law enforcement agency that has some 15,000 employees, was part of a three-member panel at the Halloween event that was assigned the holiday task of doling out awards for the best costumes. Some 50 to 75 people were at the Halloween gala, according to press reports, so the competition was fierce.

Over the past year or so, a number of print publications in the United States and overseas have picked up on Narco News’ coverage of the House of Death murders in Juarez, Mexico, and the U.S. government’s complicity in those homicides.