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“Kent’s memorandum contains some of the most serious allegations ever raised against U.S.
antinarcotics officers: that DEA agents on the front lines of the drug war in Colombia are on
drug traffickers’ payrolls, complicit in the murders of informants who knew too much, and,
most startlingly, directly involved in helping Colombia’s infamous rightwing paramilitary
death squads to launder drug money.
The memo further claims that, rather than being simply a few “bad apples” who need
to be reported to their superiors, these allegedly dirty agents are being protected by an
ongoing cover-up orchestrated by “watchdog” agencies within the Justice Department.
These charges blow away the smoke concealing the pretense of the war on drugs. If they are
true, there will be no brushing them aside at pre-scripted press conferences; everyone who
becomes aware of these allegations will be forced to consider where we go from here in that
so-called war.
(…) Kent says his claims are supported by a number of DEA agents in Florida who the
agency muzzled and retaliated against after they tried to expose the corruption. Specifically,
Kent contends that the DEA’s Office of Professional Responsibility (or OPR, essentially the
agency’s Internal Affairs department) and elements of DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General
(OIG) have worked to keep a lid on the corruption charges. According to Kent, these offices –
which are supposed to serve as watchdog agencies that investigate corruption – sabotaged
investigations being carried out by the Florida DEA agents and by one of the OIG’s own
agents.” Bill Conroy, Leaked Memo: Corrupt DEA Agents in Colombia Help Narcos and
Paramilitaries. Internal Justice Dept. Document Alleges Drug Trafficking Links, Money
Laundering and Conspiracy to Murder, January 9, 2006. Funnet på
http://www.narconews.com/Issue40/article1543.html
530 Allerede i 1982 begynte Bush arbeidet for å militærisere narkotikabekjempelsen. I 1986
signerte Reagan et direktiv som hvor narkotika var definert som nasjonal sikkerhetstrussel,
og i 1989 ble dette utvidet/akselerert ytterligere.
531 James Ostrowski Thinking about Drug Legalization Policy analysis nr 121 Cato institute
funnet på http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=981.
532 Andrew B Whitford & Jeff Yates, Presidental Rhetoric and the Public Agenda; Constructing
the War on Drugs (Johns Hopkins University Press 2009) s 57.
533 Den storstilte smuglingen resulterte i at prisen på kokain falt fra $500 til $150 per gram
kokain, fra 1981 til 1989. En prisreduksjon på 75 prosent på 8 år. Den har holdt seg mer eller
mindre stabil siden. Roy Krøvel, Kokainkrigen; 20 år av en velsignet forbannelse (Tapir
Akademisk forlag 2004) s 42
534 Crack epidemien i LA
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