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JUDICIAL WATCH SUES CIA FOR INSPECTOR GENERAL’S REPORT ON MENA, ARKANSAS, AIRPORT DRUG, ARMS SMUGGLI
JUDICIAL WATCH ^ | 8/16/2019 | Judicial Watch

Posted on 08/16/2019 11:54:37 AM PDT by bitt

Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the CIA seeking the CIA Inspector General’s November 1996 report related to a drug-running, arms smuggling and intelligence operation involving Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport in Arkansas.

The airfield in Mena was alleged to have been used in the 1980s by the CIA during the Reagan administration to smuggle arms to rebels in Nicaragua. A central figure in the operation was Barry Seal, a pilot and drug smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel who became an undercover agent and informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

In November 1996, then-CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz absolved the CIA of involvement in the operation.

Hitz at the time said that “no evidence has been found to indicate that the CIA or anyone acting on its behalf participated in, or otherwise had knowledge of, any illegal or improper activities in Mena, Arkansas or the area north of Mena known as Nella, Arkansas.”

Judicial Watch sued the CIA in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia after the agency failed to respond to a June 29, 2018, FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:19-cv-00672)). Judicial Watch seeks:

The CIA Inspector General’s report issued in November 1996 relating to a drug-running, money laundering and intelligence gathering operation involving an airport in Mena, Arkansas.

(Excerpt) Read more at judicialwatch.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cia; judicialwatch; jw; jwlawsuit; mena
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To: bitt

Arms went from Mena to do battle with the Sandinistas. The CIA funded these arms purchases by importing Cocaine to Mena and then to cities throughout America.
It is why the Clintons are protected regardless of their crimes.
Billy boy was gov. of Arkansas at the time. He looked the other way.,


21 posted on 08/16/2019 12:30:07 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: bitt

Where is the photo of bush 1


22 posted on 08/16/2019 12:31:37 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: bitt

Maybe we’ll finally learn the truth about Kevin Ives and Don Henry. How they “got dead” BEFORE they got to the railroad tracks.


23 posted on 08/16/2019 12:37:50 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." A. Lincoln)
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To: bitt

That’s the exact same look I want to see on Bubba’s case when the “resurrected” body of Jeffrey Epstein is marched to the witness stand during the upcoming (hopefully) trial.


24 posted on 08/16/2019 12:39:27 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." A. Lincoln)
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To: Zathras
They wouldn’t be poking around Arkansas unless they had a reasonable suspicion something was covered up.

Excuse my skepticism on this, but they've been poking around Arkansas for the past couple of decades and haven't found squat that they can use in a court of law to put some of these people in prison where they belong. The Clintons will never spend a minute behind bars, and certainly nobody in the CIA has anything to fear.
25 posted on 08/16/2019 12:43:29 PM PDT by Deo volente ("Paging Mr. Charles Martel. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.")
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To: Joe Boucher
I suspect that you are correct and the Deep State knows that both Bill and Hillary could destroy them, which is why they never are charged with any crime and why the Deep State looks the other way or cooperates with the necessary “wet work” required for the various “Arkancides” that prevent the Clintons from being charged with any crimes. After all dead men tell no tales.

“....It is why the Clintons are protected regardless of their crimes....Billy boy was gov. of Arkansas at the time. He looked the other way.,........”

26 posted on 08/16/2019 12:51:41 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: Robert357

2 kids died.


27 posted on 08/16/2019 12:57:44 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: bitt

28 posted on 08/16/2019 1:03:41 PM PDT by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: bitt
At one point in time this would have been 🍿& 🍺 time. Now it is 🍩& ☕ time. I'll still take it
29 posted on 08/16/2019 1:07:37 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON. I'm. AN ANTI DEMITE)
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To: bitt

They are trying to tie Epstein to Clinton by seeing what Epstein’s relationship with Bobby Seal was.


31 posted on 08/16/2019 1:09:20 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
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To: bitt

Judicial Watch does outstanding work. The only problem is that only a small number of us on the right even pay attention. Certainly not leftists and RINOs.


32 posted on 08/16/2019 1:21:20 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Zathras

They probably have an Epstein link


33 posted on 08/16/2019 1:27:31 PM PDT by cnsmom (G)
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To: mgstarr; bitt

mgstarr wrote:

“Ah reminds me of the old days with Larry Nichols and George Putnam’s Talk Back.”

I remember those days also!


34 posted on 08/16/2019 1:51:49 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Tejas Rob
I’m sorry to hear of the impending suicide of Judicial Watch.

Is there an address so we can send flowers?

35 posted on 08/16/2019 2:14:03 PM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Is it time Claire?)
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To: morphing libertarian

Poppy is shakin hands with hon guv george wallace in post #15.

Bubba is grinnin to be sitting at same table with these pols


36 posted on 08/16/2019 2:36:41 PM PDT by thinden
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To: jmaroneps37

What the hell are you saying?


37 posted on 08/16/2019 2:45:42 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: Zathras

“They wouldn’t be poking around Arkansas unless they had a reasonable suspicion something was covered up.”

Agree! In fact, they wouldn’t even be requesting the report unless they already had an unofficial copy of it, which I assume someone recently gave to them. Otherwise, why would anyone care about Mena, these days?

They know what’s in it, but unlike dirt on Republicans, no one will take them seriously unless it’s actually obtained via official channels - hence the attempt to get it released.


38 posted on 08/16/2019 3:37:20 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U; jmaroneps37

As far as I know Bill Barr worked as an analyst at the CIA for a couple of years in the 1970s. When he got is law degree he left.

Now he did work in WH under GHW Bush. Wikipedia says he wrote the opinion justifying the invasion of Panama and overthrow of Noriega. Panama was a hot spot for drug money, and one of the routes for drugs coming in.

There are lots of rumors about Bush, and of course even more about Clinton as he was AG and Governor of Arkansas at the time of the whole Barry Seal/Mena Arkansas thing. There was the whole Iran-Contra affair mixed into all this too but the timeline a little different. Anyway if Clinton was involved in some direct way it is not a stretch to wonder about GHW Bush who was VP and then POTUS (and previously head of the CIA). And that would also open questions about Barr and the Noriega affair.

But to be honest, I hadn’t thought about Barr in this light until you mentioned it.


39 posted on 08/16/2019 4:10:42 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: bitt

My guess is that report went in the shredder years ago.


40 posted on 08/16/2019 4:40:50 PM PDT by Revel
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