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--- Begin Message ---January 9, 2006 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleague,A U.S. Justice Department attorney named Thomas Kent has written a hot memo: DEA agents posted in Bogotá, Colombia, claims Kent, are committing a series of crimes in collaboration with Colombian drug traffickers and paramilitaries. According to the document, signed by Kent back in December 2004, the agents have gone so far as to support activities of the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), the country's main rightwing paramilitary group. As often happens in such cases, it seems that no one in Washington is interested in Kent's strong denunciation. His memorandum has reached the desks of various high-ranking government officials, but until now a veil of shadows and silence has covered up the facts that Kent reported more than a year ago. But someone leaked this internal document to the right hands, and Bill Conroy has begun to digging once again into this story of corruption, death and lies known as the war on drugs. And so, using the copy of the official document as his primary source, Conroy takes a tour of what seems to be more an office full of mercenaries than the headquarters of an international antinarcotics law enforcement agency. And we see a story coming together, from an agent's confession of laundering money for the AUC, to Thomas Kent's fruitless attempts to bring this to the attention of the relevant authorities within the DEA and the Justice Department, all of whom denied the attorney any chance to prove his accusations. According Conroy's reporting and analysis, "Kent details three further cases of extreme corruption in his memo, all involving Bogotá DEA agents persecuting or conspiring to kill Colombian informants who threatened to bring down their activities. Sources told Narco News that these corruption allegations involve cases launched in 1999 or 2000, but which resulted in investigations that carried on for months or years." http://www.narconews.com "Given the pretense that defines the war on drugs, Kent's memorandum (which basically rewrites the script of that war) is not likely to be a hot seller in Washington, D.C., anytime soon -- absent pressure from a major media blitz," explains Conroy. In any event, as Conroy himself explains in his report, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Kent's memorandum is a first taste of something very rotten inside the DEA. For that reason, we also offer a complete scanned copy of the document, so that you can see for yourselves all this could mean for the future of this false war. Or as the author of the article published today in Narco News explains: "The corruption allegations raised in Kent's memorandum are startling, but agents in the Bogotá DEA office are not the first to have been accused of participating in a narco-trafficking conspiracy. Similar tales of corruption involving overseas DEA agents have surfaced in the past. And although the charges raised by Kent in his 2004 memorandum have now passed before many eyes, they have still not been addressed in the light of day. Instead, as in similar past cases, they have been buried in the contorted layers of the Justice Department bureaucracy". But read better you read the full story on Thomas Kent's memo and Bill Conroy's sharp analysis. Download a copy of the original memo as well, and take some time to look through it. As always, find it all here, at this link: http://www.narconews.com And keep paying attention, because this story is just taking its first steps… From somewhere in a country called América, Luis A. Gómez Acting Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Narco News is supported by: The Fund for Authentic Journalism P.O. Box 241 Natick, MA 01760 http://www.authenticjournalism.org The Fund receives online donations at this web page: http://www.authenticjournalism.org Apply for your co-publisher's account, here: http://www.narconews.com/copublisher/application.php Subscribe for free alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews Suscríbete gratis para alertas de nuevos reportajes en español: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandes Inscreva-se para alertas gratuitos de reportagens do último minuto em português brasileiro: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsbrasil Yahoo! Groups Links
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