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Claims (56)
Lanny Brewer member_of
U.S. Department of Justice book_quoted
“a financial campaign donor and supporter of then-Senator Barack Obama, who was also on the committee and running for president of the U.S. against John McCain in 2008. Interestingly, Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney Gener…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 26:10
Larry Barcella member_of
U.S. Department of Justice book_quoted
“And Bridget, if you could look him up and post what you find on him. Theodore Greenberg, and you spell his last name G-R-E-E-N-B-E-R-G. He had been with the Justice Department for seven years when at the age of 33, he was brought into the E…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 12:19
U.S. Department of Justice funded
U.S. Steel documented
“But Kennedy never backed down from his ongoing duel with the steel industry. In October 1963, just weeks before his assassination, JFK's Justice Department filed price-fixing charges against U.S. Steel and other steel companies based on Bob…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 1:04:06
U.S. Department of Justice paid
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez documented
“In Tensley's case, a judge ordered the DEA to put him back on the job with back pay plus interest. Gonzalez also was eventually victorious in his lawsuit, where the documentations related to Calumian and Vega investigation was filed as evid…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 7:45
Theodore Greenberg member_of
U.S. Department of Justice book_quoted
“And Bridget, if you could look him up and post what you find on him. Theodore Greenberg, and you spell his last name G-R-E-E-N-B-E-R-G. He had been with the Justice Department for seven years when at the age of 33, he was brought into the E…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 12:19
Carol Bruce member_of
U.S. Department of Justice book_quoted
“And Bridget, if you could look him up and post what you find on him. Theodore Greenberg, and you spell his last name G-R-E-E-N-B-E-R-G. He had been with the Justice Department for seven years when at the age of 33, he was brought into the E…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 12:19
U.S. Department of Justice paid
Brad Birkenfeld documented
“He gets his big fat check for $104 million, which is his payoff for keeping his mouth shut. So he also sued UBS in court for his bonus that they withheld when he left and got that too. So he wrote a book where he hammers UBS executives.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shell Game Part 4 @ 17:02
Francisco Garola Baseli pardoned
U.S. Department of Justice documented
“The investigation came to a sudden abrupt halt with a lot of questions left unanswered because U.S., that was according to U.S. Customs Agency, Ernest Allison. That was because the Justice Department had just made a quick deal with Garola. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 37:55
U.S. Department of Justice targeted_for_regime_change
Otto Skorzeny documented
“The Justice Department filed charges against him in 81 for concealing his Nazi past and sought to deport him. Isn't that hilarious? The CIA is the one that got him into the United States and then now he's not useful to them anymore. So the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 1:07:07
U.S. Department of Justice pardoned
Nicolae Malaxa documented
“and Nixon swept to a decisive victory, winning 55% of the vote and carrying 39 of the 48 states. After Republicans' triumph, Dulles and Nixon were finally able to speed Malaxa's immigration case through the bureaucracy. In December of 1953,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 21:43
Eric Holder member_of
U.S. Department of Justice book_quoted
“a financial campaign donor and supporter of then-Senator Barack Obama, who was also on the committee and running for president of the U.S. against John McCain in 2008. Interestingly, Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney Gener…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 26:10
U.S. Department of Justice recruited
Burns & Thiel book_quoted
“federal courts, the Postal's Inspection Investigation Fraud Unit, Secret Service, and Special Agency Service in Customs to track counterfeiting and other revenue-related crimes. As a result, the Department of Justice would continue to rely …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 13:17
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Daniel Blanton documented
“But no one bothered. We found no FBI records indicating that the Miami FBI office conducted any further investigation into Blanton, the Justice Department IG said. But once the case was officially shelved, Norrin Menendez miraculously reapp…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 32:38
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Iran-Contra affair documented
“The DEA hired him back as an informant and began issuing him visas to the United States. At the height of the American public's outrage over the Iran-Contra scandal, the criminal investigation involving Contra cocaine sales in Los Angeles w…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 33:06
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Daniel Blanton book_quoted
“That's something I'm not even sure I can say yes or no to because that comes within the realm of, look, I have no reason to believe he had any contact with the CIA and I would defy counsel to come up with any kind of credible information th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 43:08
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
J.J. Perez guest_asserted
“You don't get a DEA pilot and a DEA airplane to fly you around without the DEA knowing about it. The DEA panel recommended Perez's dismissal. Rasputo said, but the Justice Department provided Perez with an attorney and much of the case was …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:11:14
William French Smith headed
U.S. Department of Justice documented
“might propose. In early 1982, CIA Director William Casey and Attorney General William French Smith inked a formal memorandum of understanding that spelled out which spy crimes were to be reported to the Justice Department. It was the same a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final) @ 7:53
Triple Canopy overbilled_or_diverted
U.S. Department of Justice documented
“Company had billed the U.S. government for hundreds of Uganda security guards who failed to meet firearm proficiency requirements. We've heard that before. Prosecutors claim the company had falsified test scores to make the workers appear t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 35:10
Norwin Menendez recruited
U.S. Department of Justice documented
“The DEA informant related that Menendez had recruited him to coordinate drug and weapons shipments to Colombia and drugs were shipped back to the United States, sometimes through Nicaragua. Menendez boasted that he traveled in and out of Ni…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 54:03
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Carlos Cabezas host_asserted
“Cabeza, about the San Francisco Frogman case, the Justice Department announced that he couldn't possibly be questioned since he was going to be a federal witness in an upcoming drug trial. Cabeza said, that was bullshit. I was never a witne…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 37:05
U.S. Department of Justice pardoned
Daniel Blanton documented
“that his investigators were unable to locate a copy of the affidavit in the department files and had to use the author's, meaning Gary Webb's copy, which had been posted by the San Jose Mercury News on its website. And again, the only reaso…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 54:56
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
BCCI host_asserted
“in the past. That's the way all of these. And BCCI was probably the most apparent because of the documents that have come out since on exactly what they knew at the time they were doing the investigation and exactly how they limited the sco…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 1:15:37
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Promise host_asserted
“to bust open Operation Gladio because you can't do Operation Gladio if you can't launder money. You just can't do it. And so they thought they had solved, you know, world hunger, like literally solved world hunger. And basically the Departm…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 1:19:31
U.S. Department of Justice dropped_charges_against
John White documented
“The FBI spent $25,000 trying to bribe White, but the Justice Department refused to appoint a special prosecutor and the charges against White were dropped. In late 75, before he was indicted, Cyril Smith Jr. secretly sold the savings in loa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 20:04
U.S. Department of Justice targeted_for_regime_change
Patrick Byrne host_asserted
“And saying that Hillary Clinton was part of Operation Snowflake. And, you know, the FBI was going to try to frame Hillary and all this stuff. And he gets kicked out of Overstock over that, even though, you know, he's nearly a majority share…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 1:19:14
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Locke Lau book_quoted
“The Justice Department says it may renew an extraordinary request to let the FBI search and destroy mission on computers harboring classified information about a 1980s case that temporarily became public in a lawsuit. The federal judge prev…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 22:45
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
UBS book_quoted
“and certain agencies in the intelligence community colluded to betray, prosecute, and cover up UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld for exposing and reporting on UBS terrorist threat finance connections. This report was written to Colonel Jeff…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 19:59
Brad Birkenfeld prosecuted_by
U.S. Department of Justice host_asserted
“is that Birkenfeld wasn't prosecuted in Switzerland. He was prosecuted for other stuff in the United States that didn't really seem to be that, you know, that seemed to, you know, kind of go out of its way to prosecute a guy. Yeah. And I me…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 1:04:52
Theodore Greenberg member_of
U.S. Department of Justice documented
“Ted would hound him for the rest of his life, unquote. And according to an official who recalled the conversation, everybody at the meeting believed that he was serious. The officials were talking about Theodore Greenberg, who title is depu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 1:25:06
Robert Mueller member_of
U.S. Department of Justice host_asserted
“Ted would hound him for the rest of his life, unquote. And according to an official who recalled the conversation, everybody at the meeting believed that he was serious. The officials were talking about Theodore Greenberg, who title is depu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 1:25:06
Maggie Goodlander appointed
U.S. Department of Justice host_asserted
“Both. There really isn't a whole lot of difference. They all work for the same. So once again, Biden gets installed and she joins the Department of Justice as a counselor to Merrick Garland, who she used to clerk for. And she worked in the …”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady 250418 @ 53:12
U.S. Department of Justice recruited
Pinkerton National Detective Agency book_quoted
“federal courts, the Postal's Inspection Investigation Fraud Unit, Secret Service, and Special Agency Service in Customs to track counterfeiting and other revenue-related crimes. As a result, the Department of Justice would continue to rely …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 13:17
U.S. Department of Justice recruited
Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross book_quoted
“He'd been told. Yet now they wanted to know if he would be a U.S. government witness against the police. A drug dealer helping to put NARTS in jail. If that doesn't beat all, he thought. Now, again, this is the feds wanting a consent decree…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 34:54
U.S. Department of Justice pardoned
Orlando Bosch documented
“of his leading advocate in Miami. In the end, the Justice Department relented and informed the White House counsel, C. Boyden Gray, and then Deputy Director, Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, it would agree to a deal to free Bosch to live with h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 1:20:53
David Boies headed
U.S. Department of Justice book_quoted
“PDVSA purchased products from its international partners at inflated prices while selling its oil below market rate for years. One oil industry source familiar with the case estimated the scheme cost Venezuela's government at least $15 bill…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 19:39
Sinaloa Cartel traded_network_to
U.S. Department of Justice documented
“Through the informant, Loya Castro, negotiated a quid pro quo immunity deal with the U.S. government in which they were guaranteed protection from prosecution in exchange for ratting out all of their peers. The alleged deal assured protecti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 22:55
Daniel Blanton member_of
U.S. Department of Justice documented
“cooperated with and rendered substantial assistance to the United States, unquote. At the government's request, his jail sentence had been secretly cut twice. O'Neill then persuaded the judge to let Blanton out of jail completely, telling t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 50:25
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“When Brian and I were doing these stories, we got our brains beat out. People from the administration were calling our editors, telling them we were crazy, that our sources were no good, that we didn't know what we were talking about. The J…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 1:00:13
Robert F. Kennedy member_of
U.S. Department of Justice book_quoted
“CIA under a leash, at least they thought they did. Where Max Taylor told them to proceed on a low key, Bobby Kennedy insisted no time, money, or effort should be spared. He met with the managers of his Justice Department office to drive the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 27:22
Joe Kelso spied_on
U.S. Department of Justice guest_asserted
“participating in drug manufacturing. Okay, Kelso said. He said it was later determined that the two men may have been part of Norse resupply operation, which could or couldn't have been official CIA, but they were basically still working fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:33
Edward Levi member_of
U.S. Department of Justice book_quoted
“asking him to investigate high U.S. officials for crimes concerning Chile. Levi, a highly moral man, at once sent the Corey letter to the criminal division of the Justice Department. The result, the CIA was turned upside down. Corey's lette…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 17:19
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
CIA book_quoted
“and certain agencies in the intelligence community colluded to betray, prosecute, and cover up UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld for exposing and reporting on UBS terrorist threat finance connections. This report was written to Colonel Jeff…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 19:59
U.S. Department of Justice supplied_arms_to
Mossad host_asserted
“to bust open Operation Gladio because you can't do Operation Gladio if you can't launder money. You just can't do it. And so they thought they had solved, you know, world hunger, like literally solved world hunger. And basically the Departm…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 1:19:31
U.S. Department of Justice pardoned
Jose Bueso Rosa documented
“on saying he's an asset so he doesn't get prosecuted or even charged, while at the same time, another part of the Reagan administration is louding the fact that they busted a drug dealer. You can't make this shit up. The general later agree…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 42:37
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Scott Weakley documented
“Where does that sound familiar? In every single Latin American country. According to court records, similar promises of leniencies were made to Scott Weakley to keep him quiet about his involvement with Bode, Pino, and the quote-unquote ent…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 49:01
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
BCCI guest_asserted
“Morgenthau told him that witnesses and British officials were being told by the DOJ not to cooperate.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 9:18
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
EATSCO host_asserted
“would affect the national security of the United States and would constitute a breaking of a pledge of confidentiality between them and the Egyptian government. To protect the principles in its go from prosecution, the Justice Department ne…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 32:20
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Senate Foreign Relations Committee guest_asserted
“But the Justice Department, he said, had stonewalled the committee's request for information, and he had finally given up trying to obtain the records, moving on to other more productive areas. There was a lot of weird stuff going on out th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 56:04
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Daniel Blanton's Cocaine Ring host_asserted
“that he report any future contact with any officer or employee of the Department of State or Department of Defense or CIA or any other intelligence agency in the United States. While the Justice Department pounced on Grits and Weakley for w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 57:59
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Scott Weakley host_asserted
“did not appear to have been turned over, nor were Weakley's phone records made available to Walsh's office, which again is obstruction of justice. While no evidence has surfaced suggesting the State Department officials Boat and Pinion knew…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 36:21
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
RAND Corporation host_asserted
“And as part of that, they were going to do two things. Number one, the Department of Justice was going to call off its antitrust lawsuit against IT&T. And number two, we're going to do this coup in Chile. Another fascinating tidbit that I j…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 19 @ 1:29:00
U.S. Department of Justice attempted_assassination_of
Brad Birkenfeld book_quoted
“and foreign banks. The report explained how one month after meeting with the DOJ officials and giving them his cell number, Birkenfeld's international banking friend from London had received a call from UBS asking him why he had sent them a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 23:52
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“but not all there is to see, and then tries to move in and say, you're not allowed to see anything else. And since a political assassination falls in the line with Operation Gladio, I think it's very interesting to understand the motivation…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4 @ 1:45:41
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Mark Morales host_asserted
“discussing bribes. But it says FBI agents badly botched the case and prosecutors ultimately dropped the charges. Now, what that translates to me is this guy's part of the CIA operation here. This guy is black marketing arms in addition to w…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Ukraine weapons…WHERE @ 18:06
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Savings and loan crisis book_quoted
“The Department of Justice International Division, the government body through which subpoenas to offshore banks must pass, inexplicably became a brick in the wall to Curtin's efforts to obtain records from the Isle of Jersey…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 10:11
Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure spied_on
U.S. Department of Justice book_quoted
“in a Paris suburb, the French equivalent of the CIA were aware of all of this and used it to blackmail people in the U.S. government. One demand was that the U.S. Justice Department, itself highly corrupt, would cease prosecuting 14 French …”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 26:14
Mentions (120)
▶ 8:53
were basically turning a blind eye, England in particular. Lloyd's of London, a big insurance company, had insured a number of properties that were going to go under because of BCCI. So they did their own investigation and tried to pass the…
▶ 9:18
He says Morgenthau told him that witnesses and British officials were being told by the DOJ not to cooperate. Well, what's interesting about that is we know that the entire operation was ran out of London and not one time did anybody in Lon…
▶ 33:21
that a Pakistani bank was laundering money out of Miami and the Cayman Islands. Both the State Department and the Justice Department covered it up. The reasons are obvious. Had the senator been helped with her probe, which she did investiga…
▶ 42:50
and closing his banks in the United States. One of the best examples occurred in 91, when the Justice Department should have been racing to build its case against the bank. That year, the U.S. was amassing an army in the Gulf, preparing to …
▶ 50:06
Thal is getting his case together to begin prosecuting. You have the Department of Justice who real quick goes out and starts a very lame investigation with the thought that they're going to usurp Morgenthau's prosecution of BCCI. Now, Morg…
▶ 50:31
He's got secret confessions from Saudi officials that he flew in that was grand jury indicted. He's got this mountain of evidence against BCCI. And he did all of that while the Department of Justice was fighting him tooth and nail. They wou…
▶ 53:21
the former National Security Advisor and consultant to the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff. So you just have to love how little this is. But the, so the, I'm trying to find my note of the name that was the guy that was at DOJ. So anyway, t…
▶ 53:51
Delay, pause, everything. Then they try to get out in front of the New York City attorney, Morgan Thau, in the prosecution. But the DOJ, the attorney general, basically retires, gets relieved. And in walks William Barr. And do you know what…
▶ 55:17
They're the ones that facilitated the buying of these banks in the U.S., which was criminal from the get-go. But the DOJ was going to basically try them and kind of set them aside so they couldn't do double jeopardy in New York City and jus…
▶ 57:06
Lloyd's accuses BCCI of taking part in smuggling operations and falsifying shipping documents. Big surprise there. And boy, why would you want to falsify shipping documents if you're shipping arms all over? Yeah, the insurance underwriters,…
▶ 9:09
While Congress, the Justice Department, and the press concentrated on the flamboyant borrowers and managers of the savings and loan, the big recipients of the money, the wealthy, powerful landowners and property owners, crept off quietly wi…
▶ 10:11
The unraveling of this transaction was a rare exception, but even it could not be called a complete victory. The Department of Justice International Division, the government body through which subpoenas to offshore banks must pass, inexplic…
▶ 1:41:35
And they're supposed to include their basis for declassifying it and what date it will be revisited. OK, or what event will trigger its declassification? That has to be on this cover sheet. After 2017, this attorney that was in the Departme…
▶ 1:43:00
in the Department of Justice receiving a paycheck today because this isn't the only issue that they are in noncompliance with. And again, this bullshit that you hear every day about saving the democracy, we don't have a democracy. And I'm n…
▶ 35:41
That was asserted by the CIA and State Department through the DOJ. After that revelation, Judge Lamberth determined in a series of subsequent opinions that Brown should be reinstated as a defendant and that the deceit related to Brown's cov…
▶ 37:40
Royce Lamberth opened the door for sanctions to be brought against Tennant and Rizzo. Also on the list were several other CIA officials like Robert Edinger, then acting Attorney General for operations in the CIA's office, meaning covert ope…
▶ 38:10
That was based on false computer hacking accusations brought against U.S. Senate staffers investigating the CIA's torture program. That's the big scandal with Dianne Feinstein when they were looking into that program and they accused Brenna…
▶ 47:43
The attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice in July of 2010 filed a motion in federal court indicating that Congress was notified officially of the corruption allegations involving the CIA. The motion substantiates a prior report that t…
▶ 49:10
Judge Lamberth pressed the DOJ to make a referral to the appropriate IGs to investigate the wrongdoing. Why in the hell wouldn't DOJ just investigate it? It's not like they don't have people to do that. That's their entire function. Judge L…
▶ 49:41
The allegations set forth in the court's opinion and order to the Integrity Committee of the Council of Inspector Generals on Integrity and Efficiency and informed their respective congressional oversight committees of the allegations. The …
▶ 26:14
in a Paris suburb, the French equivalent of the CIA were aware of all of this and used it to blackmail people in the U.S. government. One demand was that the U.S. Justice Department, itself highly corrupt, would cease prosecuting 14 French …
▶ 19:16
Of course, it was under the Obama DOJ that they make ballots extradition a top priority. And he's cleared to be extradited. Then, of course, he was convicted and the rest is history. All right. So I just wanted to put that all out there bec…
▶ 1:19:31
to bust open Operation Gladio because you can't do Operation Gladio if you can't launder money. You just can't do it. And so they thought they had solved, you know, world hunger, like literally solved world hunger. And basically the Departm…
▶ 53:12
Both. There really isn't a whole lot of difference. They all work for the same. So once again, Biden gets installed and she joins the Department of Justice as a counselor to Merrick Garland, who she used to clerk for. And she worked in the …
▶ 43:43
He gets involved. He rules in the Stephen Wynn foreign agent case. Stephen Wynn was a Trump backer. What's that? Wow. Yeah, he actually dismissed the DOJ lawsuit to force Wynn to register as a Chinese foreign agent. And people consider that…
▶ 46:20
That's why I enjoyed this research on Boesberg. All right. Let's get into the FISA. Okay. Boesberg's appointed to the FISA court in 2014. Becomes the presiding judge for 2020 to 2021. Inspector General Horowitz issues a report in 2019 about…
▶ 57:26
We caught you red-handed. Now you don't get to submit anymore. Oh, gee, what a brutal punishment. No one held accountable. Well, here's the one person who got held accountable. Kevin Clinesmith, who altered... I mean, come on. That was a sl…
▶ 58:26
And now his record is expunged. Never happened. Yeah. Crazy. Another interesting thing about the FISA court, a little bit of conflict with Boasberg, was Mary McCord. She was the former Hillary Clinton national security advisor. She was the …
▶ 39:27
Quintero claimed that he came to Washington on September 29th to return the remaining expense money to Wilson. It was the beginning of Wilson's long fall. The Bellagherde brothers went to the Justice Department after the Latier killings and…
▶ 16:49
A Democrat, the director of operations, might have escaped unscathed. But Church refused to let Corey testify about wrongdoing in Chile, starting with the Kennedy years. Instead, Church wanted Corey, a former award-winning newspaper and mag…
▶ 17:19
asking him to investigate high U.S. officials for crimes concerning Chile. Levi, a highly moral man, at once sent the Corey letter to the criminal division of the Justice Department. The result, the CIA was turned upside down. Corey's lette…
▶ 1:45:12
that says Ryan Ross' attorney opposes the DOJ's efforts to keep all of his discoveries secret. The attorney noted that the DOJ has published information about the case, including the infamous letter where he offers $150,000 to anyone who fi…
▶ 1:45:41
but not all there is to see, and then tries to move in and say, you're not allowed to see anything else. And since a political assassination falls in the line with Operation Gladio, I think it's very interesting to understand the motivation…
▶ 1:46:12
protective order from disclosure because in the past where those have been most prominently used is to protect government entities which could or couldn't be the CIA which could or couldn't be the FBI or the Secret Service or any of the oth…
▶ 1:47:09
Also, deeply troubling in government that they are trying to scream as a democracy. It just, like, falls flat on its face. Anyway. Okay. Closing comments, anyone? You raised a good point. I guess I'll give my closing comment, which is that …
▶ 1:47:41
And we never hear about the cases that unless there's a leak sometimes or if there's a public disclosure by a regulated entity in 10-K or 10-Q, we don't necessarily know when somebody is under investigation by the Department of Justice, by …
▶ 6:10
$200 million off of these contracts. However, Morales' company is being investigated by Ukrainian anti-corruption bodies in connection with the agreement that government officials called a failure. In 2009, the U.S. Justice Department accus…
▶ 17:35
It says the Justice Department, this was the interesting part to me. So it talks about Morales being 51 and a Pentagon go-to person for arms deals. Now, keep in mind, the Pentagon doesn't need anybody for arms deals. They can actually do th…
▶ 23:22
He has moved missiles, shells, grenades, and vehicles to Ukraine. And he is far from the only weapons dealer with relationships with the Ukrainian government. Mr. Morales' weapons career ended after his indictment was unsealed in 2010 in a …
▶ 28:46
They rationalized that it would mollify him, bribe him not to retaliate against the CIA. He also goes on to say, according to Stockwell, it is an interesting paradox that the SEC has since 1971 investigated and the Justice Department has pr…
▶ 29:46
avoid doing that. The same plan can be said of murder. A few months earlier in January 1976, the Justice Department had concluded that no grounds existed for federal prosecution of CIA officials involved in the plot to assassinate several h…
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where it was reloaded with drugs before flying back to Florida, Kidney reported. This assertion is entirely plausible and even somewhat corroborated in Justice Department charges that Morales was importing cocaine at the time for the larges…
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And, you know, they lost the 48 election in a close election to Truman. And yes, Truman was, you know, the guy who signed the CIA. But I still think that, you know, when kind of matters in the sense of the later it gets, the more the CIA is…
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Crossin Anderson, to take the case to an entity that had been set up called the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. It was a special Justice Department unit that was put together from agents across law enforcement agencies to go af…
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that he was particularly angry that he didn't get a chance to debrief Menendez and had only last-minute notice that he could speak to the CIA agent, Roberto. The Justice Department IG reported this. Supposedly outraged, Auckland shot a cabl…
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to a cocaine-related charge as part of a cooperation agreement and maybe even do a little time. Until then, the agents were told their case was officially on the inactive list. So just in case you're keeping track, they've not only decided …
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It now appears that there was no such cooperation agreement between Menendez and the Justice Department. It was all a lie. That it was an invention to placate the FBI agents after their racketeering case was rejected. The Justice Department…
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Even though the FBI had shelved a promising case against Menendez in San Francisco to ensure his cooperation, the drug lord had proven virtually worthless. Auckland criticized the DEA in his case closing memorandum and later interviews with…
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But no one bothered. We found no FBI records indicating that the Miami FBI office conducted any further investigation into Blanton, the Justice Department IG said. But once the case was officially shelved, Norrin Menendez miraculously reapp…
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The DEA hired him back as an informant and began issuing him visas to the United States. At the height of the American public's outrage over the Iran-Contra scandal, the criminal investigation involving Contra cocaine sales in Los Angeles w…
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felt that it was abundantly clear that Ross was the vital link between the major drug suppliers and lower level dealers. Now, again, I started off the show saying this. When all avenues are cut off by the federal government to actually deal…
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I am a fighter and a patriot in war. Everything is valid. Who did he give that quote to? Oh, you know, the CIA owned Miami newspaper. When the Justice Department in the summer of 1989 moved to deport Bosch from the country, labeling him an …
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in the presidential library of President George H.W. Bush and in the Justice Department archives, sheds light on the case, revealing how political interest, including a congressional race in which Jeb Bush was the campaign manager, influenc…
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They complained that the Justice Department had failed to show any political sensitivity in handling the case. Quote, the timing of this decision has further complicated our hopes for a Republican victory in a special election for the Claud…
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to their concerns. Three weeks later, President Bush flew on Air Force One with Bosch's leading supporter, the person running for the congressional seat managed by his son, to campaign for her in Miami. The documents on file at the Bush Lib…
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persecution of an anti-communist, not a terrorist. Terrorism is fine as long as you're labeled an anti-communist. In the piece, Bosch was described as Fidel Castro's most feared enemy and a living symbol to the struggle for Cuba's independe…
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What happened over the next year was a steady evolution in the Justice Department's position on their case against Orlando Bosch. There was a memorandum that says they were closely monitoring the situation. Bosch, who had fought with Castro…
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any government effort to imprison Bosch. I don't think the government could prove any of it, George Yoss said, who was Y-O-S-S, who was one of Bosch's attorneys at the time. He also added, quote, the issue was, what do you do with this guy?…
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that he could be sent only to a country where he would be relatively safe from Cuban agents. Robert Mueller, who was then Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, later complained in another memo about the inability to…
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of his leading advocate in Miami. In the end, the Justice Department relented and informed the White House counsel, C. Boyden Gray, and then Deputy Director, Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, it would agree to a deal to free Bosch to live with h…
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pledged to renounce violence and promised to avoid contact with any of the former anti-Soviet compadres. On July 17th, Bosch walked free and promptly thumbed his nose at the Justice Department. He held a news conference and said that the de…
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That was his words. The resolution did not go down well at the Justice Department. I wasn't looking for any more terrorists to turn loose on society, recalled Thornburg, who was the attorney general at the time. In a recent interview, he sa…
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folded all of that capability, the executives, the corporate espionage, all of those functions, the Justice Department piece of this, gets folded into the CIA post-World War II. So it's very interesting to go back and look at how they did i…
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Andrew Tartalino, the investigation ended in 1968 with the resignation of 32 agents and the indictment of five. That same year, the FBN was reconstructed in the Department of Justice and became the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, t…
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Detailed information on money laundering was brought to the DEA and Justice Department, and after some media exposés, Reagan was finally forced to act. Operation Greenback was launched to prosecute money launderers. However, according to fe…
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did not end alongside the lawyer's service to Guaido. We have reasons to believe that Hernandez's conduct has to be investigated. And that came from the opposition leaders. The previous summer, Rodriguez and his party filed a former complai…
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With this political turmoil, it is obvious the DOJ has to investigate Hernandez. This case, Rodriguez, the guy involved, must be investigated. Washington's continued refusal to investigate Hernandez raised questions. Was the corporate coup …
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Upon learning the diplomat's jet would stop in Cape Verde to refuel, Pompeo said he called Attorney General Bill Barr and arranged for our ambassador in Cape Verde in the Department of Justice to file the paperwork for his extradition to th…
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his extradition to the U.S. They decided that the $400 million was more important than complying with the law. Cape Verde did not officially ship the diplomat to Miami until October 16th. At around 5 p.m., a Gulfstream owned by the U.S. Jus…
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In and of itself, a CIA operation, folks. Soon the story and Gary himself were spoiled goods. Gary's editor switched sides and penned an apology distancing the paper from the series. Gary was forced out of his job, even though the body of e…
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In the facts, Gary faulted himself for not seeing sooner the depths of the CIA's complicity. Describing the aftermath in a 2002 for a book called Into the Buzzsaw, leading journalists exposed the myth of a free press. He wrote, quote, when …
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I saw the story you did a couple of weeks ago, she began, the one about the drug seizure laws. I thought you did a good job. Gary Webb says, thanks a lot. She was the first reader who'd called about that story. A front page piece in the San…
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With the prospect of setting thousands of dopers free or returning billions in seized property, the U.S. Supreme Court would later overturn two of its own rulings in order to kill off the inmate suit. You didn't just give the government sid…
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And Cornejo's prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hall, was referred to the Justice Department for investigation for the charges. Imagine my surprise. In the San Francisco Daily Recorder story about the misconduct charge, it was noted…
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While working at the DOJ in Texas, the Office of Professional Responsibility reviewed Hall under an informant accused, when an informant accused Hall of approving drug smuggling into the United States. Hall said the office found no merit to…
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But he did stay in the drug business. What made the story so compelling was that he was appearing before the grand jury as a U.S. government witness. He wasn't under investigation. And he was a drug dealer. He wasn't trying to beat a rap. H…
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Tellez, T-E-L-L-E-Z. He'd done 28 months for a 10-year cocaine trafficking conviction. The last page of the file told me why. In a motion filed by the U.S. Attorney O'Neill, asking the court to unseal Blanton's plea deal and a couple of int…
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cooperated with and rendered substantial assistance to the United States, unquote. At the government's request, his jail sentence had been secretly cut twice. O'Neill then persuaded the judge to let Blanton out of jail completely, telling t…
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Blanton's testimony about selling cocaine to the Contras in LA wasn't part of a fantasy. This could have actually happened. I called Jack Bloom, the Washington DC attorney who headed the Kerry investigation, and he confirmed that Norwin Men…
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When Brian and I were doing these stories, we got our brains beat out. People from the administration were calling our editors, telling them we were crazy, that our sources were no good, that we didn't know what we were talking about. The J…
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including, I think it's called either lost history or secret history and secrecy and privilege about the Bush family. But he's got, he's got, you know, thousands of notes in the back of his books too, based on all kinds of journalism, based…
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dope dealers to ingratiate themselves with Ed Meese and his hypersensitive Justice Department. But despite being caught red-handed with pounds of cocaine, they were neither sent to jail nor deported. They got probation and a work furlough j…
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who was familiar with the investigation into Menendez and the drug lord's activities with the Contras, said that they were very well known inside the Justice Department because he had personally reported on it. And justice wasn't the only a…
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That came from an immigration lawyer. One of my clients, he said, was a college professor from Thailand. He was denied entry because he had been arrested smoking marijuana when he was a teenager. When it comes to drugs, it's almost an autom…
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which was known to be involved in supplying military hardware to the Contras. Agents seized two long lists of weapons with names of pastries next to them, which Lister explained were code sheets that he and Planton used to discuss weapons o…
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He was recruited by the CIA in the 1960s after years of working on the Castro Project and with Cubans in Miami and was implicated in a number of terrorist incidents conducted by various Cuban terrorist groups. In 1967, CIA records show Posa…
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The investigation came to a sudden abrupt halt with a lot of questions left unanswered because U.S., that was according to U.S. Customs Agency, Ernest Allison. That was because the Justice Department had just made a quick deal with Garola. …
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Garola, he could not believe that the Justice Department announced a plea deal with a smuggler. The punishment simply does not fit the crime. I don't know what you were up to, but this conduct cannot be tolerated, the judge said. Less than …
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stockpiled at ilapango was loaded onto salvadoran transport planes and flown south where the guns were traded for cocaine which was then flown back to the salvadoran airbase as wild as it sounds records show miranda is not the first drug tr…
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basically saying the exact same thing. They never did anything about it. One of the informants records show was a member of Menendez's drug ring, a boyhood friend who had a long track record of providing information and was considered extre…
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while they themselves are doing it. Another report of Colombian cocaine being traded for U.S. weapons surfaced fewer than two years later during a 1988 debriefing of a Colombian trafficker turned government informant, Alan Rayol Rudd, who w…
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He told her that he was working with the CIA to get cocaine to South Florida. Polisios was interviewed in 1986 by the staff of Senator John Kerry, which was looking into the allegations of the Contra drug smuggling. Kerry's staff found her …
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took it to the Justice Department in September 1986, and met with William Weld, W-E-L-D, one of the Attorney General Edwin Meese's top assistants. Weld read about a page and a half and chuckled. Carry aide Jonathan Weiner said,…
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in Central America, on alert for Sandinista drug dealing, had found zero evidence of the Nicaraguan government doing any drug deals. Although uncooperated reports indicate there was Nicaraguan involvement in shipping, they were all uncooper…
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There you had the FBI there. You had the DEA there. You also had a CIA, several CIA people in Southern California. Every single one of them was corrupt. You had an entire infrastructure in the DOJ corrupt, an entire infrastructure in the DE…
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The memo of Rudd's debriefing was sent to the Iran-Contra prosecutor, Lawrence Walsh, by the DOJ a month later with a note from Associate Attorney General Stevens Trott, T-R-O-T-T, which said there was no action being taken by the DOJ pendi…
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And it was later found in the National Archives when researchers discovered it. Yeah, the DOJ is not going to do anything about drug trafficking into the United States. One of the lawyers who worked for Walsh told the CIA in 1997 that inves…
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that everything's being dumped on the special prosecutor and he's not doing anything with it. That's basically what we just covered. This is the kabuki dance that I keep talking about every single day. They have a special prosecutor and the…
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They did what they thought was appropriate. Meanwhile, John Kerry is investigating all of this stuff in another Kabuki committee hearing. And the DOJ is sending everything to Walsh, but he's not sending it to John Kerry. So it's a big botto…
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He's sending all of his information to Edwin Corr, the ambassador. He was sending regular reports. And Corr later said that he thought that Castillo was a very professional and good agent and had no reason to doubt anything that he was tell…
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The person who claimed I was a drug trafficker was on the payroll of the CIA, as most drug traffickers are that we found. I've never been involved with drugs, even though it was in its file. The marijuana found at his house, he said, probab…
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He had a reputation, this is a quote, reputation as a man who is always digging things up, unquote. That was actually a quote in the DOJ's IG report. What do you have DEA agents for in a foreign country if they're not supposed to be digging…
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In his 1994 memoirs, he blamed the fallout because of his investigation at Ilo Pango. The DEA declined to respond to any of the accusations he made, and in its response to Afoya, it claimed it had no reports from Castillo about drug traffic…
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And what was said about Castillo and the air base over the years, it was a lie. The Justice Department IG had no trouble locating the agent's reports and quoting from them liberally. The squashing of Castillo's investigation ended any offic…
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officers in the DEA was going into a black hole. And when Gary Webb did a FOIA asking for them, the DEA said they didn't exist. He didn't find them until the Department of Justice issued an IG report that had them in it. So yeah, yeah, the …
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The Times featured links from White House sources who confided that the president himself was taking this crack issue very seriously. Robert Stutman, who was the chief of the New York DEA office, would later admit that the crack panic of 19…
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problem was forgotten by the Reagan administration was demonstrated when DEA director Jack Lawn, following up on the Reagan's pledge to crack down on crack, asked for $44 million to hire 200 additional agents focused strictly on crack. The …
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And he said so in a U.S. News and World Report. The magazine identified the Justice Department official responsible for the decision as Associate Attorney General Stephen Trott. By then, however, Steve Trott had bigger worries about inner c…
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Not only was Congress screaming about North and beginning to scrutinize the Justice Department's involvement in the scandal, but Trott was monitoring a pesky Senate investigation into allegations of the Contra drug trafficking. Trott viewed…
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The obvious intent of Senator Kerry is to try to orchestrate a series of sensational accusations against the Contras in order to obtain massive press coverage at about the time the next Contra aid vote, according to Trott. It will be Senato…
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that I would be amazed if the CIA were to be very cooperative in this. We had a meeting with CIA Justice Department. CIA jumped out of their seats at some of the stuff that they heard we were thinking about looking into. I mean, they just l…
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Cabeza, about the San Francisco Frogman case, the Justice Department announced that he couldn't possibly be questioned since he was going to be a federal witness in an upcoming drug trial. Cabeza said, that was bullshit. I was never a witne…
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They won't do it. They didn't want to respond. They didn't want to provide any information. But some information trickled out anyway, and it got awfully close to exposing the Norwin Menendez-Daniello Blanton drug operation. In the spring of…
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He asked the Justice Department to turn over its files on Menendez and the long-closed Brogman case. He ran into a buzzsaw. He said, quote, we had a terrible, terrible time getting information about Menendez from the fellow who was the U.S.…
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right-wing true believer as ever came down the road and who was bound and determined to prevent anyone from learning anything about the case, Bloom said. He and the Justice Department flipped out to prevent us to getting any access to the p…
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drug network in the United States, but only one guy's going to do it. Auckland said he didn't get any help on the case from his superiors or any other agents. That was according to the Department of Defense, or excuse me, the Department of …
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because the FBI might burn them. Wilbur wasn't sure if Hoffman's suspicions were a political thing or if he really felt the feds were in on it. During this period, Wilbur told investigators in 1996, almost 10 years later, his guys were not …
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release any records or answer any questions about the agent's background or their possible work for other government agencies. Sometimes the lines really got blurred when you were working for Oliver North, agreed former Iran Contra Committe…
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That were the subject of the tapes. Owen said his last trip to Costa Rica to meet the DEA agents occurred in October 86. Within a day or two of the Iran-Contra scandal breaking, Owen threw the Kelso tapes away. They were thrown out, along w…
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It was like pulling teeth out of the justice to get any cooperation. And we finally had to threaten everything imaginable to get these documents, said the Iran contract attorney. Finally, they caved in and we had to go over to justice to lo…