Ending litigation, filed by former DEA agent Richard Horn, will cost taxpayers a pretty penny

Former DEA agent Richard Horn, and his attorney, former federal prosecutor Brian Leighton, have struck a deal to end a long-running legal case in which Horn accused former CIA and State Department officials of spying on him and sabotaging his anti-narcotics mission in Burma — now known as Myanmar.

Recent DOJ pleadings in state-secrets case appear to rely on fabrications

U.S. government attorneys seem to have made another major blunder in the closely watched state-secrets privilege case involving former DEA agent Richard Horn.

Government lawyers who are seeking to advance national security claims in Horn’s case have already been accused of committing a fraud on the court. In addition, Paul E. Forster, a former agent with the State Department Inspector General’s Office (OIG) is now prepared to testify in the case that his superiors whitewashed an investigative report that substantiated Horn’s charges against CIA and State Department employees.

Agents — Two Since Retired, One Now Leading High-powered Task Force — Call Claims “Absurd” and “Despicable”

A top gun with the DEA’s Special Operations Division, along with two fellow law enforcers, are not what they seem, if Gaetano (Guy) DiGirolamo Sr., a convicted heroin dealer, is to be believed.

The trio are, in fact, drug dealers themselves, argues Yale law professor Steven B. Duke in court pleadings filed on behalf of his client, DiGirolamo.

Federal investigator claims he faced retaliation for failing to play ball with a cover-up

What can best be described as a bombshell revelation has surfaced in a long-running state-secrets case filed by a former DEA agent, Richard Horn, against past high-level employees of the CIA and State Department.

A court pleading filed in the litigation indicates that a former supervisory agent with the State Department Inspector General’s Office (OIG) has agreed to testify under oath that an investigative report he prepared in the Horn matter “was rewritten without his knowledge or permission, and his signature forged, and his intended conclusions changed.”

Republican U.S. Representative's former press secretary helping to write the script

GOP lawmakers Jim DeMint, Aaron Schock, Peter Roskam and Doug Lamborn aren’t the only extremist grandstanders openly flaunting their disrespect for the Logan Act and contempt for President Obama by trekking to Honduras to play dice with a dictator.

Micheletti junta shelling out $292,000 for D.C. flack attack

The recent decision by the rogue government of Honduras to spend more than a quarter of a million dollars to hire a PR firm to spread its newspeak is marked by a twist of irony that even George Orwell would appreciate.

Congressional letter to President Obama urges administration to “exercise caution”

The U.S. government’s effort to dig its heels in deeper in Colombia under the overt flag of enhancing its anti-narcotics efforts in the region is not only drawing heat from leaders in Latin America but also here at home, in Congress.

The deal now being considered by the Obama administration and the Colombia government calls for a 10-year lease providing U.S. personnel access to some seven Colombian military bases, according to press reports. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told the media that the effort to expand the base presence in Colombia should not be read as a sign that the Obama administration will seek Congressional approval to expand the number of permanent U.S. personnel now stationed in Colombia — supposedly limited to 800 military and some 600 civilian contractors.

Despite recent State Department aid-cut media show, millions of taxpayer dollars continue to flow into Central American country

The U.S. government’s policy toward the de facto government that now rules Honduras can best be described as two-faced — expressing rhetorical outrage publicly while quietly continuing to prop up the putsch regime economically behind the scenes.

To date, the U.S. government has declined to declare officially that the June 28 overthrow and exiling of democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was carried out via a “military” coup d'état — thereby avoiding the invocation of a U.S. law that would mandate a draconian cutoff in U.S. aid to the Honduran government.

However, in its diplomatic dance with terminology, the Department of State, under the leadership of Secretary Hillary Clinton, is telling the media that what happened in Honduras on June 28 was still a coup d'état — absent the military modifier.

Informant Ramirez Peyro transferred suddenly from county jail to federal detention center in New York

The House of Death informant, who is currently fighting an effort by the Department of Homeland Security to deport him back to a certain death in Mexico, has been dealt a new card by the U.S. government — courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Within weeks of the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals publishing an opinion that went against the government in his case, ICE agents last week yanked the informant, Guillermo Ramirez Peyro, out of the county jail in Elk River, Minn., where he had been housed in solitary confinement since the fall of 2006, and transferred him to the Buffalo Federal Detention Center located midway between Buffalo and Rochester in the community of Batavia in upstate New York.

Agency bankrolling “good governance” programs to ensure the “rule of law in the country”

The taxpayer-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation has continued to move millions of dollars into Honduras since the June 28 coup d'état, but it is not alone, Narco News has now confirmed.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is slated to provide Honduras with nearly $47 million in funding in fiscal 2009, which ends Sept. 30, 2009. Nearly all of that money (some $43 million) is scheduled to be delivered as previously planned to Honduras — which is now under the leadership of a putsch regime that President Obama has already described as “not legal.”