Reporter's Note: As we approach April 22 and the four-year anniversary of Narco News’ first of nearly 70 reports on the House of Death, it seems only appropriate to tell the whole story once again, all in one place, if for no other reason than to put a proper tombstone on this seemingly forgotten graveyard of the war on drugs. So we begin — but it never ends….

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.

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.

The Bush administration and its cronies at the trough are anything but subtle when they feed.

The oil rich Niger River Delta of southern Nigeria is a murky swampland where men are at war with the Earth — and each other.

An armed indigenous rebel group known as the MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) over the last few years has successfully disrupted the operations of major oil producers in the area through a string of attacks on oil facilities.

The rebels have taken up arms in order to regain control of their lands from corrupt Nigerian leaders and multi-national oil companies who they claim are raping the environment and making billions of dollars off the oil reserves — and returning little more than dirt to the impoverished communities in the Niger Delta.

The Nigerian government, by contrast, sees the rebels as looters, kidnappers and terrorists who are a threat to the national security of the country.

This same dynamic is playing out in flashpoints across the globe — including in nations south of our border, where indigenous communities in Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia and beyond are pushing back against what they see as the destruction of their lands by the pecuniary forces of global capitalism. In Latin America, the struggles are notable for the lack of violence on the part of the indigenous communities — even when extreme violence is being used against them by the state.