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.
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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.,
Where is the photo of bush 1
Maybe we’ll finally learn the truth about Kevin Ives and Don Henry. How they “got dead” BEFORE they got to the railroad tracks.
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.
“....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.,........”
2 kids died.
They are trying to tie Epstein to Clinton by seeing what Epstein’s relationship with Bobby Seal was.
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.
They probably have an Epstein link
mgstarr wrote:
“Ah reminds me of the old days with Larry Nichols and George Putnam’s Talk Back.”
I remember those days also!
Is there an address so we can send flowers?
Poppy is shakin hands with hon guv george wallace in post #15.
Bubba is grinnin to be sitting at same table with these pols
What the hell are you saying?
“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.
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.
My guess is that report went in the shredder years ago.
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