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CIA Has Reportedly Been Busy In Mexico
Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | Febryary 18, 2025 | Jason Hopkins

Posted on 02/20/2025 3:30:47 AM PST by kevcol

Northern Command has conducted over two dozen surveillance flights over the U.S.-Mexico border using a slate of different aircraft, including RC-125 Rivet Joints, U-2s, P-8s and drones, a senior U.S. military official told the Times. The administration has not authorized the CIA to use the drones for lethal airstrikes, with the aircraft only being used to help Mexican authorities locate and dismantle drug operations within their territory.
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The CIA drones have reportedly proven successful at locating the labs, with chemicals emitted into the air by fentanyl production being easy to spot from the sky. The agency declined to comment on the matter.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aviation; border; cartels; cia; drones; drugs; fentanyl; mexico; northerncommand; surveillance
U.S. State Department under President Trump has officially designated the following as Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Tren de Aragu, MS-13, Sinaloa Cartel...

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1 posted on 02/20/2025 3:30:47 AM PST by kevcol
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To: kevcol

Maybe they can do something useful.

Probably not. Probably just picking winners who bribe them.

But a guy can dream.


2 posted on 02/20/2025 3:33:04 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
Maybe they can do something useful. Probably not. Probably just picking winners who bribe them.

I think those days are behind us, at least for four years.

But remember: Drugs from South America are the CIA's most profitable money supply.

3 posted on 02/20/2025 3:37:49 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: kevcol

“The CIA drones have reportedly proven successful at locating the labs,”

Like they didn’t know already. This is a farce. The CIA should be treated like their cartel buddies.


4 posted on 02/20/2025 3:40:00 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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They located them because they built them and profit from them.

BLOW IT ALL UP.


5 posted on 02/20/2025 3:54:58 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TheThirdRuffian

The CIA drones have reportedly proven successful at locating the labs, with chemicals emitted into the air by fentanyl production being easy to spot from the sky. The agency declined to comment on the matter.

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taking out their competition?


6 posted on 02/20/2025 4:38:32 AM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Are they actually working for our side or protecting the cartels? Hard to believe they’re on our side.


7 posted on 02/20/2025 4:42:25 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: kevcol

This could explain what the drones were doing in our country, possibly testing the ability to detect chemicals in air and determine location.


8 posted on 02/20/2025 4:51:03 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: kevcol

Is the Deep State going to take down the Deep State’s gravy train?


9 posted on 02/20/2025 4:51:43 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: kevcol

Clowns are just looking to take out the middle man in their drug-running ops.


10 posted on 02/20/2025 5:08:42 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: kevcol

This action I support 100%.


11 posted on 02/20/2025 5:15:14 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: kevcol

Jdam the mofos!!!


12 posted on 02/20/2025 6:09:38 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Nitzy: New and Improved! Now with only 66% anti-semitic posts!)
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To: kevcol

Last night a P-8 flew from Jacksonville and did at least two trips right along the border. It did some circles south of Laughlin AFB. They’re not doing this for nothing. I’ve heard many times that there are places on our side of the border controlled by the cartels. I wonder if they’re not trying to pinpoint exactly where they are.


13 posted on 02/20/2025 6:12:19 AM PST by suthener ( I do not like living under our homosexual, ghetto, feminist government.)
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To: kevcol

Proof of the pudding will be a dramatic decline in fentanyl deaths in the United States.


14 posted on 02/20/2025 6:14:01 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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Proof of the pudding will be a dramatic decline in fentanyl deaths in the United States.

That would be one important data point.

15 posted on 02/20/2025 6:17:14 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: kevcol

If we provide the Mexican government with the location and proof of these targets, but they do not act on it, what is the next step?

Would like to see some rules of engagement (assuming it doesn’t exist now) that would allow an immediate air strike under certain circumstances (e.g., location is isolated, indisputable evidence, etc.). Perhaps having an authorized Mexican official watching live video, might enable this to happen.


16 posted on 02/20/2025 7:23:35 AM PST by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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To: kevcol

Good to see the CIA repurposed and doing something useful on behalf of the American people.


17 posted on 02/20/2025 9:02:04 AM PST by Kazan
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To: kevcol

its 4:30 pm and there is a U2 flying around near the border out of edwards, per flightradar24.. ummmm


18 posted on 02/20/2025 4:29:35 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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