"You have to remember that while the CIA was running drugs and guns in and out of Mena, Arkansas, good old Bill was the Guv.
George H W Bush was the head of the CIA at the time.
So they probably have a relationship based on keeping each other out of jail. Alternatively it may be a keep your friends close and your enemies closer approach on the part of the two former presidents."
Next thing you know, we are going to find out that Dennis Hopper has been secretly running the whole mess based on the hidden discourses written by Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.