CIA Wants Court to Invoke Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) in Case Involving Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla
September 13th, 2011
Via: Narco News:
The fingerprints of the CIA have surfaced in a controversial federal criminal case pending in Chicago against Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, an alleged kingpin in the Sinaloa “drug cartel.”
US government prosecutors filed pleadings in the case late last week seeking to invoke the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), a measure designed to assure national security information does not surface in public court proceedings.
“The government hereby requests that the Court conduct a pretrial conference … pursuant to CIPA … at which time, the government will be prepared to report to the Court and defendant [Zambada Niebla] regarding the approximate size of the universe of classified material that may possibly be implicated in the discovery and trial of this case,” states a motion filed on Friday, Sept. 9, by US prosecutors in the Zambada Niebla case.
Why the above, and all the rest of it, is not being screamed from national headlines and wall-to-wall coverage on the news networks illustrates how hopelessly in the tank the national media is for whoever has a “D” after their name.