[headsonpikes]

The obvious historical truth is that US politicians and Government officials at all levels have been corrupted by money from the criminal drug profiteers.

Consequently, all efforts to “win” the War On Drugs are fatally compromised from inception.

Someday, all this will appear painfully transparent. That day is not soon, sadly.

[AuntB]

“The obvious historical truth is that US politicians and Government officials at all levels have been corrupted by money from the criminal drug profiteers.”

Evidently even Bernie Madoff was tied up with Latin American Drug cartels.

Some of Madoff’s money “came from the Russian mob and the Latin American drug cartels,” Markopolos explained. “If he would have known my name and he knew that we had a team tracking him, I didn’t think I was long for this world.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/04/AR200902040

[hinckley buzzard]

The obvious historical truth is that US politicians and Government officials at all levels have been corrupted by money from the criminal drug profiteers.

I think you are right. It pains me to say it but, when the facts make no apparent sense, like our chaotic and ineffective "Border security", then the only thing left to do is "Follow the money."

And in the matter at hand, all the money is dirty.