New Lead Surfaces in Cold “House of Death” Drug-War Case
Posted by Bill Conroy - January 30, 2012 at 9:17 pmMan on the Run From the “Cartel” Claims He Is a Witness to a Murder That Threatens the State
A new voice from the past has emerged in the House of Death mass-murder case — in which a US government informant is accused of assisting with up to a dozen murders, the bodies of the victims later found buried, covered in lime, in the backyard of a house in Juarez, Mexico.
Fast and Furious Is One Among Many Similar Drug-War Warts
Posted by Bill Conroy - January 16, 2012 at 5:02 pmTurf Wars, Agency Budgets and Case Stats Trump Lives in the Era of Prohibition
Ever since ATF’s Fast and Furious gun-running operation was catapulted into the national spotlight in early 2011, the focus has been on the politics influencing the police work and the manipulations behind intelligence operations, with little to no attention paid to the dysfunction of the drug-war bureaucracy.
CBS News Poaches Narco News’ Drug War Coverage
Posted by Bill Conroy - January 2, 2012 at 5:34 pmNetwork Producer Also Concedes “Some Bloggers Were Out Ahead of Us” on the Fast and Furious Story But Were Given No Credit
More Fast and Furious — Did DEA Whistleblower Cele Castillo Call it?
Posted by Bill Conroy - December 17, 2011 at 4:16 pmNYC Radio Show Also Explores New Developments in the Alleged Ties Between US Law Enforcers and the Sinaloa “Cartel”
Zambada Niebla Case Exposes US Drug War Quid Pro Quo
Posted by Bill Conroy - December 10, 2011 at 3:16 pmProsecutor, DEA Agent Confirm Intel From Sinaloa Mafia Used to Undermine Juarez, Beltran Leyva Drug Organizations
U.S. government officials have long presented the drug war through the media as a type of "Dirty Harry” movie, in which hardscrabble cops are engaged in a pitched battle with hardened street criminals who threaten the very social fabric of life behind America’s gated communities.
Was Former DEA Agent Jailed for Exposing ATF Arms Trafficking?
Posted by Bill Conroy - November 24, 2011 at 8:09 pmIran/Contra-Era Whistleblower Cele Castillo Alleged in 2008 That Federal Agents Were Helping to Smuggle Guns into Mexico
Cele Castillo, a former DEA agent who blew the whistle on the CIA-backed arms-for-drugs trade used to prop up the 1980s Contra counter-insurgency in Nicaragua, is now sitting in a federal prison for what may well be another act of whistleblowing in this century.
US Prosecutors Seeking to Prevent Dirty Secrets of Drug War From Surfacing in Cartel Leader's Case
Posted by Bill Conroy - November 5, 2011 at 3:28 pmUS Government Using National Security to Conceal Evidence, Attorneys for Narco-Trafficker Zambada Niebla Claim
The criminal case of accused Sinaloa drug organization leader Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla is straying even further into the path of a cover-up under the guise of national security, if pleadings filed by his attorneys are to be believed.
Private Paramilitary Training Complex Slated for Border Hits a Hitch
Posted by Bill Conroy - October 22, 2011 at 3:17 pmHowever, Opponents of Planned Facility Remain Wary of Shell Game Shenanigans
A paramilitary service company’s plan to develop a nearly 1,000-acre military and law-enforcement training facility near the California border with Mexico is now in the process of being scuttled by a foreclosure action on the property.
US Prosecutors Confirm Classified Information Colors Zambada Niebla’s Case
Posted by Bill Conroy - October 4, 2011 at 12:35 amGovernment’s Pleadings Also Contend U.S. Intelligence Agencies Lack Authority to Grant Accused Narco-Trafficker Immunity
Prosecutors in the Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla case on Monday, Oct. 3, filed a motion in federal court in Chicago rebutting the accused Mexican narco-trafficker’s argument that he has been denied access to critical evidence in preparing his defense due to a tardy call by the prosecution for national-security procedures to be invoked in his case.
US Government Accused of Seeking to Conceal Deal Cut With Sinaloa “Cartel”
Posted by Bill Conroy - October 1, 2011 at 5:52 pmLawyers for Alleged Narco-Boss Zambada Niebla Claim Prosecutors Suppressing Evidence By Invoking National Security
The criminal case against accused Mexican narco-trafficker Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla now appears to be threatening to unravel the U.S. government’s ugly national-security interests in the drug war.
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