That would take a while, but I'll give the Cliff's Notes version of it.
The CIA was running weapons down to Nicaragua in the '80s. We all remember the Iran-Contra affair, right?
Anyway, one of the transports for the weapons was based out of Mena, Arkansas. At the time, Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas. And he knew about the drug running. This fact came to light during Troopergate.
L.D. Brown was a former Arkansas State Trooper who had accompanied Dan Lasater on a trip to Nicaragua. Brown said he noticed duffel bags with kilo bricks of cocaine loaded on the C-123K and taken back to Mena. Brown asked Bill Clinton if the CIA was running drugs from South America to the States. In a rare burst of truthfulness, Clinton admitted that he did. He answered, "Oh, no. That's Lasater's deal."
Dan Lasater was a wealthy contributer to Bill Clinton in Arkansas. He was also known to be a drug-runner. He was indicted in 1986 by the feds and received a 39 month prison sentence. Gov. Clinton pardoned him in 1990.
So, to bottle the ends (and there is a heck of a lot more, like the Train Deaths case from 1987), the CIA was not running drugs. But someone close to the operations of the covert CIA operations in South America was, and used this as the cover. Bill Clinton was well aware of the federal investigations into drug running in his State. His State drug-czar's office was adjacent to the Clinton's office in the Capitol in Little Rock. He was fully aware of what was going on here.
Like I said, Maxine Waters, who I am by no means a fan of, was closer to the truth than she realized. She was very close. Like the Maha Rushie says, she swerved into the proximity of the truth.
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