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Title: DoJ: DEA agents had sex parties with cartel-provided hookers in Colombia
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HotAir
URL Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/ ... -provided-hookers-in-colombia/
Published: Mar 26, 2015
Author: Jazz Shaw
Post Date: 2015-03-26 12:59:06 by Tooconservative
Keywords: War On Drugs, DEA
Views: 4587
Comments: 27
Move over, Secret Service, because another government agency has challenged for the party-culture championship. A Department of Justice Inspector General report accuses Drug Enforcement Agency personnel of having “sex parties” with hookers in Colombia, but at least government funds weren’t used to procure them. No, the bill got picked up by the drug cartels the DEA agents were supposed to investigate, as Politico’s John Bresnahan reports: It gets better. Guess who watched the weapons while our agents partied with the cartels? Bribes apparently were de rigueur, too: The parties in question took place between 2005-8, although the report itself covers the subsequent four years. One big question from this report is how the agents only got suspended for this activity. Shouldn’t this kind of behavior get an agent fired, especially since it gives the cartels lots of leverage over the agents in question? One has to wonder whether the threat of exposure allowed the cartels to get a lot more than their money’s worth out of this age-old honeypot scheme. Plus, it sure set some kind of example to Colombian police, which has been under tremendous US pressure to go after the same cartels that serviced our agents. Bresnahan also notes that the report accuses the DEA of covering up the incidents. Even after the IG found out about the allegations (through a whistleblower), executives refused to allow the IG to access the file. In fact, the IG also said the FBI obstructed its investigation as well on unrelated charges of sexual harassment in the bureau: Therefore, we cannot be completely confident that the FBI and DEA provided us with all information relevant to this review. As a result, our report reflects the findings and conclusions we reached based on the information made available to us. One case sounds similar to that which exposed the Secret Service scandal in Cartagena. A member of a “supervisor’s group” assaulted one of the prostitutes after a dispute over money, emphasis mine: There is also a disturbing case involving the US Marshals Service. One deputy procured prostitutes in Bangkok, a city known for its trafficking in children, but only received a chewing-out: Another deputy marshal took up with the girlfriend of a fugitive, which didn’t turn out well for anyone: The USMS appears to have at least cooperated with the IG probe. This is an embarrassment for law enforcement in the US, especially in the DEA. It does raise, though, another interesting point. If an independent IG can eventually reconstruct all of this misconduct and corruption within the Department of Justice, perhaps another can do the same at State. Agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency reportedly had “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by drug cartels in Colombia, according to a new inspector general report released by the Justice Department on Thursday. In addition, Colombian policemen allegedly provided “protection for the DEA agents’ weapons and property during the parties,” the report states. Ten DEA agents later admitted attending the parties, and some of the agents received suspensions of between two to 10 days. “Although some of the DEA agents participating in these parties denied it, the information in the case file suggested they should have known the prostitutes in attendance were paid with cartel funds. A foreign officer also alleged providing protection for the DEA agents’ weapons and property during the parties,” the report said. “The foreign officers further alleged that in addition to soliciting prostitutes, three DEA SSAs [special agents] in particular were provided money, expensive gifts, and weapons from drug cartel members.” The OIG’s ability to conduct this review was significantly impacted and delayed by the repeated difficulties we had in obtaining relevant information from both the FBI and DEA as we were initiating this review in mid-2013. Initially, the FBI and DEA refused to provide the OIG with unredacted information that was responsive to our requests, citing the Privacy Act of 1974 and concerns for victims and witnesses as the reasons for the extensive redactions, despite the fact that the OIG is authorized under the Inspector General Act to receive such information.
After months of protracted discussions with management at both agencies, the DEA and FBI provided the information without extensive redactions; but we found that the information was still incomplete. Ultimately, based on a review of information in the OIG Investigations Division databases, we determined that a material number of allegations from both DEA and FBI were not included in the original responses to our request for the information.
We were also concerned by an apparent decision by DEA to withhold information regarding a particular open misconduct case. The OIG was not given access to this case file information until several months after our request, and only after the misconduct case was closed. Once we became aware of the information, we interviewed DEA employees who said that they were given the impression that they were not to discuss this case with the OIG while the case remained open. The OIG was entitled to receive all such information from the outset, and the failure to provide it unnecessarily delayed our work. We found that a Regional Director, an Acting Assistant Regional Director (AARD), and a Group Supervisor failed to report through their chain of command or to the DEA OPR repeated allegations of DEA Special Agents (SA) patronizing prostitutes and frequenting a brothel while in an overseas posting, treating these allegations as local management issues.20 It was also alleged that one of the subjects in the supervisors’ group assaulted a prostitute following a payment dispute. The matter ultimately was reported to the DEA OPR in June 2010 in an anonymous letter alleging that two Special Agents had frequented prostitutes while in an overseas posting on a regular basis.
According to DEA OPR’s report of investigation, the agents’ in-country supervisors were aware of several loud parties with prostitutes that occurred at a Special Agent’s government-leased quarters, because the Special Agent had received four complaint letters from building management, who had also informed local DEA management about the complaints between August 2005 and December 2008. In subsequent interviews with DEA OPR, this SA said that a Group Supervisor, the Regional Director, and the Acting Assistant Regional Director had warned the SA to discontinue the parties or be removed from the overseas assignment. However, they did not inform DEA OPR about the allegations.A USMS supervisor failed to promptly report allegations that a Deputy U.S. Marshal (DUSM) solicited prostitutes while on an extradition mission in Bangkok, Thailand. According to the case file, the supervisor learned about the allegations when the DUSM’s colleague reported the matter to management. At that time, the supervisor met with the DUSM; the DUSM admitted the misconduct and received an oral admonishment. An Acting Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal (SDUSM) reported to district executive management allegations that a DUSM had an inappropriate relationship with the common law spouse of a fugitive. However, the Acting Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal, other district executive management, and a representative of the Office of General Counsel (OGC) failed to report these matters to OPR-IA and instead counseled the DUSM.
According to the OPR-IA report of investigation, an Acting SDUSM learned that a Deputy U.S. Marshal had entered into a romantic relationship with the common law spouse of a USMS fugitive. The Acting SDUSM contacted the USMS Office of General Counsel, Acting Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal, and another SDUSM in the district to determine how to handle the situation. Three supervisors instructed the DUSM to terminate the relationship, but the DUSM continued to pursue it without their knowledge for approximately 1 year. Neither the supervisors nor the OGC representative with whom they consulted reported the allegations to the OPR-IA.
When the relationship ended, the fugitive’s spouse lodged a complaint with the OIG, which referred the allegation back to USMS OPR-IA for handling as a management referral.2
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Some good reporting here.
#2. To: TooConservative (#0)
" DoJ: DEA agents had sex parties with cartel-provided hookers in Colombia "
I hope they all contracted every STD known, and all of their parts rot off before it rots their brains!
Si vis pacem, para bellum
#3. To: TooConservative, tomder55, CZ82, liberator (#1)
A Department of Justice Inspector General report accuses Drug Enforcement Agency personnel of having “sex parties” with hookers in Colombia, but at least government funds weren’t used to procure them. No, the bill got picked up by the drug cartels the DEA agents were supposed to investigate
Good report TC.
I guess the big question is did Bill Clinton visit Columbia during this timeframe. LOL!
"For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." (John 1:17)
#4. To: TooConservative (#1) (Edited)
No, the bill got picked up by the drug cartels the DEA agents were supposed to investigate
And remember NO SLEEPING IN BEDS! err {edit} WIF SHEETS!
#5. To: redleghunter (#3)
Obviously federal employees are much bigger party animals than I had realized.
The DEA has to be thoroughly corrupt, top to bottom, for agents to take cash and expensive gifts and hooker orgies from the cartel and get no more than a few days off with pay.
#6. To: redleghunter (#3)
I guess the big question is did Bill Clinton visit Columbia during this timeframe. LOL!
I got a better question.
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"The investigation began in March 2002 when 11 pounds of cocaine seized in Denver was linked to the Peyton ranch. Pueblo police got a Crime Stoppers tip in June 2002 that a large-scale cocaine trafficking operation was being run at the ranch. A January 2003 seizure of 583 pounds of cocaine in Pennsylvania confirmed authorities’ suspicions. “We had already identified the ranch,” said Gray Hildreth, resident agent in charge of the DEA in Colorado Springs."
gazette.com/drug-pipeline...eyton- ranch/article/15896
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Why is the ranch at 2245 Slocum Road still owned, along with numerous other properties, by the same "bidnessman"?
The planes were landing within spitting distance of the L.I.F.E.Rs at "new" NORAD. Nothing to see there...
#7. To: TooConservative (#1) (Edited)
Some good reporting here.
"Gary Webb committed suicide on December 10, 2004. He was found dead in his Carmichael home with two gunshot wounds to the head"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary _Web b
Evidently the kind of reporting that can be suicidally unhealthy.
#8. To: TooConservative, tomder55 (#5)
The DEA has to be thoroughly corrupt, top to bottom, for agents to take cash and expensive gifts and hooker orgies from the cartel and get no more than a few days off with pay.
Yes, if they are taking gifts and going to cartel funded orgies then they are 'on the take.' Meaning they have no value to us being there.
Those 'on the take' are impeached characters. That means the cartel feeds them a few small fish to 'take down' now and then to keep their political masters in Washington happy. Also, it means these tax payer funded goons are also doing the dirty work for cartels in their war against other cartels.
Peel the onion a bit more and we will find out these agents are also facilitating illegal movement of cartel operatives within our borders.
Given the timeframe of 05-08 (still ongoing?) the full attention of Executive office was on the ME and Gitmo. No one probably wanted to be bothered with what was going on in SA.
Add to that all the military bases we closed in Central and SA these DEA agents rely a lot on local armies/security forces. Adds to the element of corruption.
"For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." (John 1:17)
#9. To: redleghunter (#8)
The solution? Remember: God gave men the plants for their use. And he didn't give the authority for men to dominate other men. Jesus warned that peddling pharmakeia will get a man the lake of fire.
So, teach the law of God, teach the noxious effects, but do not then create armies and police forces and prisons...and corruption and officially-engineered death, to keep some men from misusing plants.
Warn, tolerate, and treat the survivors - treat drugs just exactly the way that we treat most sexual sin. Legal under human law, not to be policed by human authority, deadly to the spirit, to be avoided, and to be resisted.
#10. To: redleghunter (#8)
DEA agents rely a lot on local armies/security forces.
Uhuh. Was NORAD's radar not operational when the cartel's planes were landing 10 miles away at 2245 Slocum Road?
www.google.com/maps/place...eyton,+CO+80831/@38.86468 1,-104.515307,686m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x87133afe289b7059:0xd483f9b2 80b 83e7f
www.google.com/maps/place...e+Base/@38.832962,-104.69 729,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x871346e67294bb15:0x383efeaa5e7e7085
#11. To: redleghunter (#8)
Those 'on the take' are impeached characters. That means the cartel feeds them a few small fish to 'take down' now and then to keep their political masters in Washington happy. Also, it means these tax payer funded goons are also doing the dirty work for cartels in their war against other cartels.Peel the onion a bit more and we will find out these agents are also facilitating illegal movement of cartel operatives within our borders.
Once the enforcers are in bed with organized crime, the entire process is corrupt.
You have to wonder how long this sort of thing has really been going on.
#12. To: VxH (#10)
Uhuh. Was NORAD's radar not operational when the cartel's planes were landing 10 miles away at 2245 Slocum Road?
I meant in Central and South America.
BTW, do you know who owns that ranch? In your sources it said the "Peyton ranch." Who owns it?
"For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." (John 1:17)
#13. To: redleghunter (#12) (Edited)
I meant in Central and South America.
Welcome to New Aztlan.
BTW, do you know who owns that ranch? In your sources it said the "Peyton ranch." Who owns it?
"The central point of the investigation was the 500-acre Peyton ranch at 2245 Slocum Road east of Colorado Springs. Tractor-trailers pulled into a barn to unload the drugs, authorities said. "
Read more at http://gazette.com/drug- pipeline-ran-through-peyton-ranch/article/15896#sJwB7JFLa4sk5LQz.99
Per the county tax assessor...
http://land.elpasoco.com/ScheduleDisplay.aspx? schd=4400000468
...ownership hasn't changed since 2000 -- Which is sort of interesting given the convictions related to the investigation and the SOP for seizure of assets.
#14. To: TooConservative (#11)
You have to wonder how long this sort of thing has really been going on.
Fiction author Tom Clancy hinted at this in the book "Clear and Present Danger."
The movie not so much.
"For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." (John 1:17)
#15. To: redleghunter, too conservative (#14) (Edited)
You have to wonder how long this sort of thing has really been going on.
Not really.
The association of Russel Trust's imperial frat goons with trade in narcotics is a matter of historical fact.
#16. To: redleghunter (#12)
Who owns it?
That would appear to be #5
TARGETS INDICTED:
1. Jorge Baca
2. Baldomero Venzor
3. Glenn Gintz
4. Fermin Venzor
5. Francisco Dominguez
6. Juan Trevizo
7. Miguel Salais-Dominguez
8. Ryan Vanwagenen
9. Fernando De La Hoya-Chavez
...
www.dea. gov/pubs/states/newsrel/denver101904.html
#17. To: TooConservative (#0) (Edited)
DEA agents had sex parties with cartel-provided hookers in Colombia
Sounds like a good plan to me.
What could have possibly gone wrong?
Ok,so somebody should have reminded them that you only use the chicken FEATHERS for kinky sex,and the microwaved ham was definitely a bad idea.
Not to mention the goats.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#18. To: TooConservative (#5)
The DEA has to be thoroughly corrupt, top to bottom, for agents to take cash and expensive gifts and hooker orgies from the cartel and get no more than a few days off with pay.
The question that really needs to be asked is "Are people THAT freaking stupid even smart enough to understand what the word "corrput" means?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#19. To: VxH (#7)
"Gary Webb committed suicide on December 10, 2004. He was found dead in his Carmichael home with two gunshot wounds to the head"
You rarely see that level of commitment to suicide these days.
I tell ya,this younger generation.......
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#20. To: sneakypete (#17)
Not to mention the goats.
#21. To: TooConservative, misterwhite, Gatlin, drug war hypocrites. (#0)
Typical drug warrior hypocrisy from America's arbiters of morality.
Although it isn't stated in the article, it's pretty safe to assume that these DEA thugs most likely partook of the very drugs they arrest others for.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts#22. To: Deckard (#21)
...it's pretty safe to assume that these DEA thugs most likely partook of the very drugs they arrest others for.
Now you've gone too far! LOL
#23. To: Deckard (#21)
Although it isn't stated in the article, it's pretty safe to assume that these DEA thugs most likely partook of the very drugs they arrest others for.
They would never do that, it would be against their core mission.
#24. To: Deckard (#21)
"it's pretty safe to assume that these DEA thugs most likely partook"
It's pretty safe to assume that you would assume that.
#25. To: misterwhite, Deckard (#24)
It's pretty safe to assume that you would assume that.
Have you been there? If so, please tell us.
#26. To: A Pole (#25)
"Have you been there? If so, please tell us."
Ask the other poster -- he made the initial assumption. Was HE there?
#27. To: misterwhite, hondo68 (#24) (Edited)
"it's pretty safe to assume that these DEA thugs most likely partook"It's pretty safe to assume that you would assume that.
Drug warriors such as these DEA cops (and you) are stinking hypocrites.
You'd have to be stupid or a cop groupie to think that they didn't snort several lines of coke at these parties.
Of course, when it comes out that they were you'll give them a pass.
Just like the time you defended drug using cops as "just unwinding" after a hard day at work.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
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