[JohnGalt]

"The local prosecutor did conduct an investigation based on what was within the jurisdiction of state law. The rest of it was under the jurisdiction of the United States attorneys who were appointed successively by previous administrations. We had nothing - zero - to do with it, and everybody who's ever looked into it knows that."


That is a gem; that local prosecutor/US Attorney Clinton is reffering to was none other than the current head of the DEA Asa Hutchinson who had the largest cocaine smuggling operation in the country running under his nose.

[Red Jones]

that local prosecutor/US Attorney Clinton is reffering to was none other than the current head of the DEA Asa Hutchinson who had the largest cocaine smuggling operation in the country running under his nose.

That was so incredible what you said about Asa Hutchinson. and exactly true too. He was a prosecutor in Arkansas and allowed all that corruption. So, now he's promoted to being head of DEA. But he's a Republican so that's good people say. Maybe back in 99 when he voted to impeach he was just establishing his credentials with certain portions of our population, but he still serves the machine that rules us.

Here's another interesting set of facts. In February of 1993 the US government abruptly cut spending on the DEA by 50%. They were ordered to lay off 50% of all employees including 50% of the 470 undercover agents they had actively chasing bad guys in Miami Vice types of operations. Many of those laid off were actively on the trail of real smugglers. Our own government's statistics showed that between 92 and 96 drug use in america nearly doubled. But all the tv media told us that this was unrelated to any government policy.

The spending cutbacks did not result from a congressional vote either. Clinton merely asked leaders of the Senate and leaders of the House if they would agree to the unusual and immediate cutbacks in previously approved budget items. They said 'yes' and the cutbacks were implemented.

Of course, real, professional and uncorrupted law enforcement people will all tell you that the undercover agents of the DEA were the most effective, dollar for dollar, way to spend money to keep drug availability more rare. The drug smugglers in essence were given a green light, they did their marketing thing and drug smuggling went up dramatically, that's what happened.

In 1995 funding for the DEA was restored and in fact increased. But Clinton had already put his own boy into the top DEA position. What are the odds that he was not corrupt? This new head of DEA decided that 50% of all DEA resources should be spent chasing drug smugglers inside the US rather than their historical and congressionally mandated role of strictly trying to stop drugs from coming into the US.

I'm sure that Bush is not a big coke-snorter the way Clinton used to be. I'm sure Bush doesn't lie about everything the way Clinton used to. I'm sure that Bush doesn't ask 21 year old employees to go down on him and then give them an 80 grand a year job as a reward. But Bush is part of the machine that rules us, just like Clinton. Otherwise, why is Asa Hutchinson, the person accused of corruption regarding Mena head of the DEA? Someone merely accused of such corruption shouldn't be allowed anywhere near that job.