U.S. Banks Launder Drug Cartels Billions as CIA Grows it

How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs

On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, on the Gulf of Mexico, as the sun was setting. Mexican soldiers, waiting to intercept it, found 128 cases packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine, valued at $100m. But something else – more important and far-reaching – was discovered in the paper trail behind the purchase of the plane by the Sinaloa narco-trafficking cartel.

During a 22-month investigation by agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and others, it emerged that the cocaine smugglers had bought the plane with money they had laundered through one of the biggest banks in the United States: Wachovia, now part of the giant... (click here to continue)

U.S. Government The World's Leading Drug Runners

The Iran-Contra affair irrefutably revealed that the CIA is the worlds leading drug running organization.  The question is not whether or not our government is running drugs, the only issue is the magnitude.
The Bush family, especially Sr. as head of CIA, have been intimately involved in international drug smuggling, so has Clinton.  Clinton was Governor of Arkansas when Bush's CIA was flying the Iran/Contra drugs into Arkansas.  It is well established that Clinton had to be intimately involved in the drug smuggling ring.  Is that how he got the presidency?

The reporter who broke through the government's secrecy and exposed the CIA's drug trade was murdered with two shotgun shots to the head. The Sacramento Sheriff wrote the murder off as a possible suicide.  How does someone commit suicide twice? 

After invading Afghanistan the U.S. helped overcome the Taliban's ban on poppy production for heroin (CNN: U.S.: Afghan Poppy Production Doubles).  According to White House report released in November 2003, Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan doubled between 2002 and 2003 rising 3,600% higher than the last year of Taliban rule before the U.S. illegally invaded... (click here to continue)