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Posted on 04/11/2022 11:45:19 AM PDT by ransomnote
The 82nd Airborne Division was deployed forward to Poland. And guess what? Half the officers have quit. (I guess part Poland, part clot-shot mandate).
Mexico shuts elite investigations unit in blow to U.S. drugs cooperation
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Mexico has disbanded a select anti-narcotics unit that for a quarter of a century worked hand-in-hand with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to tackle organized crime, two sources said, in a major blow to bilateral security cooperation.
The group was one of the Sensitive Investigative Units (SIU) operating in about 15 countries which U.S. officials tout as invaluable in dismantling powerful smuggling rings and busting countless drug lords around the globe. The units are trained by the DEA but under the control of national governments.
In Mexico, the over 50 officers in the SIU police unit were considered many of the country’s best and worked on the biggest cases such as the 2016 capture of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, then the boss of the powerful Sinaloa cartel.
The closure threatens to imperil U.S. efforts to combat organized crime groups inside Mexico, one of the epicenters of the multi-billion dollar global narcotics trade, and make it harder to catch and prosecute cartel leaders.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s government formally notified the DEA in April last year that the unit had been shut down, according to a DEA agent with knowledge of the matter who declined to be named as they were not authorized to speak about the issue. A second source familiar with the situation confirmed the closure of the unit.
.....The closure could prove costly on U.S. streets, where authorities are battling to reduce a surge in overdoses that last year led to more than 100,000 deaths mostly linked to a new wave of synthetic drugs produced by Mexican cartels.
The elite team, founded in 1997, was the main conduit for the DEA to share leads on drugs shipments and tips obtained on U.S. soil with Mexico’s government.
The DEA would fly new Mexican entrants to its state-of-the-art facility in Quantico, Virginia, to train them on latest surveillance and policing techniques. U.S. officials also vetted them, including with polygraph tests.
A second Mexican SIU unit, based inside the Attorney General’s Office and independent of Lopez Obrador’s government, continues to operate.
For Mike Vigil, the DEA’s former chief of international operations, the SIU closure and Lopez Obrador’s curbing of security cooperation will hurt both countries.
“It will mean more drugs going to the United States and more violence in Mexico,” he said.
.....Angered by the soaring bloodshed he blamed on the heavy-handed tactics of his predecessors, Lopez Obrador sought to implement a less confrontational policing style and pledged to tackle what he claims are the root causes of the violence, such as poverty, instead of hunting down cartel chiefs.
The president also made it harder for foreign security officials to operate inside Mexico, rebuking the DEA over its modus operandi which he said equated to trampling on Mexico’s sovereignty.
Privately, U.S. officials say Mexico’s vital role in blocking the flow of migrants from Latin America - a priority for Washington - leaves them with limited leverage to pressure Lopez Obrador on other issues, such as security cooperation.
.....DEA agents kept working with Mexican counterparts for a while, especially in Mexico City’s airport where SIU officers were intercepting smuggled fentanyl, a hyper-potent synthetic drug blamed for soaring overdoses in the United States.
But security cooperation between the DEA and Mexico plummeted to a fresh low in Oct. 2020 when U.S. security officials in Los Angeles detained Mexico’s former defense minister Salvador Cienfuegos, alleging he colluded with a drug cartel.
U.S. prosecutors swiftly released Cienfuegos, citing “sensitive” foreign policy considerations, but Lopez Obrador accused the DEA of having “little professionalism” and of fabricating evidence in the case.
In Dec. 2020, Lopez Obrador’s government stripped foreign agents of diplomatic immunity and forced Mexican officials to write reports on interactions with security officers from abroad.
“That was the nail in the coffin,” the DEA agent said. Months later the SIU was shut down.
By the time the unit was formally wound up it had, according to the DEA agent, already been inoperative for some time as Mexico’s National Guard prioritized the deterrence of violence over investigations of drug cartels.
But with more than 33,000 homicides recorded in Mexico last year, Vigil, the ex-DEA agent, said closing an elite unit that goes after organized crime groups responsible for most of the murders doesn’t make sense......
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More tentacles of the deep state sheered? IMO appears the DEA and their program were ineffective. Drugs are still pouring over the border and drug use in the US is still very high.
| In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 04/11/22 Vol.401, Q Day 1727, grey_whiskers wrote: |
The 82nd Airborne Division was deployed forward to Poland. And guess what? Half the officers have quit. (I guess part Poland, part clot-shot mandate) |
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Not an easy read, is it? :D
I think Brandon had to know this would happen if attempted. Prayers up for our mil - may God protect them from Biden and all other enemies foreign and domestic.
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Hearing rumors that Wikileaks is going to be releasing Hunter Biden laptop info (so the claims goes)
In my belief, and evidence suggests, Wikileaks was compromised a few years ago, circa 2018.
My guess is that them Deep Staters are bringing Wikileaks in on a psy-op (along with Kim Dotcom) to be ‘poisoning the well’ with fake photo/video/email releases in order to discredit the real sutff from H. Biden’s hard drive.
Just a hunch.
Jordan Sather https://t.me/jordansather/5940
“Warner Bros. Discovery has suspended all external marketing spending for CNN+ and has laid off CNN’s longtime chief financial officer”
CNN is fooked. bahahah
Scoop: CNN+ looks doomed
CNN execs think the launch has been successful. Discovery executives disagree.
Noah’s Nightly Newsletter – 4/19/22
https://truthlion.com/noahs-nightly-newsletter-4-19-22/
* President Trump Asked If He Would Return To Twitter Under Elon Musk…
* Nick Meriwether Just Scored a Huge Win Against #CancelCulture!
* Why Is President Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Chris Miller, Meeting With Ukraine and Polland?
* Did Biden Concede Defeat on Mask Mandate? “That’s Up to Them” When Asked Should People Wear Masks on Planes (WATCH)
* Vaccinated American Airlines Pilot Went Into Cardiac Arrest Six Minutes After Landing Commercial Flight With Nearly 200 Passengers (WATCH)
* RED ALERT: $17 Million Of YOUR Tax Dollars Spent On Hotel Rooms For “Migrants”!
* (WATCH) Flight Attendant Bursts Into Tears As She Removes Her Mask for the First Time in Two Years
* Jack Dorsey White Hat?
https://jordansather.substack.com/p/my-x22-appearance-be-careful-who
YMMV....
(personally I depend upon hopeium..to stay sane..)
Here. This gif won't raise the ol' blood pressure...
Reno, this evening...
~Easy
from your links:
rumble interview with Chris Miller
“”Psaki’s going to be made very cranky.””
Well, she can just hop back into her furry bunny costume and circle back into the woods.
William Hall (PRO)
William Hall
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United Airlines said they will allow passengers they banned for not following mask rules to fly again. They never should have been banned in the first place!
https://gab.com/william5849/posts/108162075106472396
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That was great! ThankQ!
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