Wikileaks: DEA a Worldwide Threat to Democracy

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  1. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    New cables released by Wikileaks paint a picture of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) as being involved in more than curtailing the flow of drugs around the world. Apparently the DEA is also involved in domestic political intrigues in third world countries that have nothing to do with drugs.

    In Paraguay for instance, the DEA got pressured to help the government spy on domestic political enemies. It seems the DEA's ability to monitor all electronic communications in a country is in high demand to spy on dissidents and other enemies of political leaders.

    http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2010/02/10ASUNCION97.html
    Obviously this is beyond the mandate of the DEA, yet the DEA will dance to the tune of these corrupt government if it means they get what they want. The DEA also props up "friendly" governments even those with horrible human rights records.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/world/26wikidrugs.html?_r=1
     
    skip, Dec 26, 2010
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  3. Sam_Stoned

    Sam_Stoned Senior Member

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    They also sold crack to cartels to undermind the Panamanian government. All that norega shit.

    Same people, different lettering
     
    Sam_Stoned, Dec 26, 2010
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  5. odon

    odon Slightly Popular

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    I love that word. :2thumbsup:
     
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  7. wa bluska wica

    wa bluska wica Pedestrian

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    where are the surprises we were promised?
     
    wa bluska wica, Dec 26, 2010
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  9. ScottDK420

    ScottDK420 Banned

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    Sounds about right to me!? Damn DEA has it in their best interests that drugs are availble in theUS so they have jobs and can secretly sell them to people and flood certain citys with drugs like crack in LA in the mid-80's to people they (DEA) consider not worth anyting but making money on anyway.
     
    ScottDK420, Dec 26, 2010
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  11. ChronicTom

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    This is part of the reason the war on drugs rages on... They would need to revamp their whole set-up in order to have excuses to keep doing these things if drugs were legalized.
     
    ChronicTom, Dec 27, 2010
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  13. Nostromo

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    sounds like the same shit that Mission Impossible was doing on TV in the 60's
     
    Nostromo, Dec 27, 2010
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  15. fire_in_the_soul

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    more evidence that assange 'monkey boy' and co presently are operating a fluff-piece.

    like i needed wikileaks to tell me people working for the DEA were up to their necks?
     
    fire_in_the_soul, Jan 3, 2011
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