Well, a reasonable explanation other than that one...because I surely have seen plenty of posts claiming that the CIA couldn’t possibly have been involved in Fast and Furious that was arming the Sinaloas.
Yet, there was the mysterious case of over 200 million dollars worth of Sinaloa cocaine on a former CIA rendition plane.
Interesting enough, the son of the Drug Lord (who owned the cocaine) was recently captured.
Well, the CIA fans, especially after 9/11, love to play up the angle that the CIA is a great patriotic organization, protecting our freedom. In some cases, that’s true. What a lot of people don’t realize is that, in the business they are in, they will always be dealing with the shadier people in society. Those are the guys that they can easily blackmail or bribe to work for them, and those are the guys who are already in the business of getting things done outside of the law.
So, if they wanted to get something dirty done in Mexico, no need to infiltrate 100 or 1000 agents into the society and give them plausible cover. There are already secret armies infesting the country, so all they need to do is send a couple guys down there with the money and skills to get those bad guys to do what the CIA wants done. If they can make a few billion in non-traceable profits to pay for operations they don’t want to have to get Congressional approval for while they are at it, then all the better for their purposes.