Thread: Judicial Watch: Trump Needs to ‘Clean House’ & Fire Corrupt Officials Who Aid Mexican

Judicial Watch: Trump Needs to ‘Clean House’ & Fire Corrupt Officials Who Aid Mexican Drug Cartels

By Barbara Hollingsworth | December 15, 2016 | 1:24 PM EST



(CNSNews.com) – To combat the nation’s opioid epidemic, President-elect Donald Trump and Attorney General-nominee Jeff Sessions need to “clean house” and fire corrupt U.S. government officials who knowingly allow Mexican drug cartels to smuggle vast quantities of heroin over the border, says Christopher Farrell, director of investigations and research at Judicial Watch.

These Mexican cartels “threaten more lives on a daily basis right now than any other foreign terrorist threat” including ISIS, Farrell said.

“ISIS only dreams of exacting the human casualties the Mexican cartels achieve, despite decades of the ‘War on Drugs’,” the former military intelligence officer wrote in an op-ed for Fox News.

On Tuesday, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, which provides $1 billion to expand access to treatment and prevention of drug addiction.

Last week, The Washington Post reported that the latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that for the first time ever, more Americans died from heroin overdoses (12,989) in 2015 than from homicides involving firearms (12,979).

In September, New York's Organized Crime Task Force seized more than 33 kilograms of heroin (72 pounds) valued at $13 million, the largest drug bust in the unit's 46-year history. Officials said that "a sophisticated distribution ring" moved the drugs - which were laced with chicken anesthetic, nail polish remover and roach killer - from Mexico into Tucson, Arizona and then transported them as far north as Massachusetts.

But Farrell says that “the dirty little secret” about the nation’s opioid epidemic is that it is “leveraged by corrupt public officials” who either turn a blind eye as the cartels smuggle truckloads of heroin into the U.S. or actively help them distribute their deadly product to every corner of the nation.


“The incidence of opiate addiction and overdose and death has skyrocketed in the last eight to ten years. So much so that even in the last two to three years, we’ve seen a jump in overdose deaths of between 12,000 and 18,000 people a year,” he said, noting that the death toll was six times higher than the number of Americans killed on Sept. 11, 2001.

Heroin use is not limited to low-income residents of the nation’s inner cities or barrios along the border, Farrell pointed out. “This is in every community in this country, every zipcode, regardless of race, creed, color, ethnic origin, level of education, Yale to jail, it doesn’t matter."

Heroin has surpassed cocaine and methamphetamine as the top illegal drug of choice in the U.S. Breitbart reported that mobile drug dealers are now using the “pizza-delivery model” to deliver heroin directly to their customers’ homes and places of business.

Heroin destined for the U.S. “starts out in the poppy fields in the southwest corner of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which is run principally by the Sinaloa cartel,” Farrell explained.

“Those drugs come across our border into the United States at a massive rate and scale. And the only reason they get across that border is because of corruption in law enforcement. And it happens at the municipal level, the state level and the federal level,” he continued.

On Wednesday, Sgt. Julian Prezas, an Army recruiter in San Antonio, Texas pleaded guilty to having three servicemen act as “straw buyers” to purchase dozens of assault rifles for the Gulf Cartel. All three soldiers pleaded guilty to making false statements on federal firearms forms.

“There’s such a high degree of corruption in law enforcement and among politicians and other public officials that this war on drugs we’re fighting is really against ourselves,” Farrell said.

He added that the Mexican drug cartels’ business model is so sophisticated that they have brought in advisers from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq to not only share their expertise on poppy cultivation, but also to train members of the cartels on how to shoot down Mexican Army helicopters.

“None of this is news to people in law enforcement, or the intelligence world, or the armed forces. Even the diplomatic community. None of what I’m saying is news. They all know this,” Farrell said.

“They know it in the form of the El Paso Intelligence Center or EPIC in the far western corner of Texas next to New Mexico,” he continued. “All the intelligence agencies are there. And all this drug trafficking goes on right under their nose, literally.

“El Paso has been a smuggling city for a couple hundred years. It’s literally El Paso de Norte, the way north, the passage north. And El Paso is a place where literally tractor-trailer loads of heroin enter the United States, and their distribution network is frighteningly effective,” Farrell said.

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Yes, finally, Judicial Watch now sees The Truth Behind Illegal Immigration. And it's NOT JUST the heroin trade, it's the cocaine, crack, meth and marijuana trade. It's the entire recreational drug trade, over $300 billion a year, TAX FREE, just into the United States. You wonder why all these politicians care more about illegal aliens than they do US citizens? Well, DUH.

I don't doubt the heroin comes 'from' Mexico, but, just me, I don't think it is all, if much, a product of Mexico.

Afghanistan had been forced to stop growing the poppies - until we took over. I think we could trace the growth of the heroin trade to our 'liberating' the poppy fields of Afghanistan.

Also, have you ever thought how the rest of the world must view America. We are involved, either with actual troops, materials, etc., in several wars. At the same time, we can't even protect our borders from drugs, illegals including granny ladies, pregnant women, and babes in arms.

The South Asian and Asian heroin is coming through Mexico, but Mexico is also growing and producing its own heroin too. We can grow poppies same as them. We should legalize and regulate, educate and rehabilitate, and of course tax it with the FairTax and use some of the tax revenues to pay for the education and rehab programs. To me after studying the issues of recreational drugs, legalization with regulations from field to factory to retail store, strong education with information and warning labels on all sales for the particular item same as required of pharmacies, with free rehab on demand without stigma, paid for with FairTaxes only drug users pay is the answer. The trade also needs to be domestic only, no exports no imports to avoid all international implications and complications, and all vendors and producers must be Licensed US Citizens Only. That keeps the $300 billion in the United States, it removes the crimes of a black market, it ends all illegal immigration associated with this nasty black market, it regulates quality and quantity to make it as safe as possible as well as by age and knowledge of purchase, and through education you can make sure every purchaser has read a pamphlet and watched a film before they get a card to buy and you label every item with all the risks just like you do medications.

This is a simple issues to resolve to the best level we can. What we know is we can not eliminate recreational drug use. It's the same as what they tried to do with prohibition of alcohol or if you tried to ban sex or food. For some people, these drugs are part of their human nature. What we can do is make purchases as informed as possible and the drugs themselves as safe as possible, then use taxes only drugs users pay to help that 2% that becomes addicted to manage or get free of it, without stigma, without waits, it needs to be free, on demand and without stigma. If you just do decriminalization as some propose, which is better than nothing, but is not the solution we seek. We want a legal domestic regulated trade that collected FairTaxes so portions of those collections can be used to better educate, inform and make rehabilitation available for anyone who wants or needs it, available on a 24 hour, walk-in basis.

Yes, poppies can grow in many places, but I don't really believe in coincidences. Afghanistan could not grow poppies, by law. We took it over and made it safe for them to once again farm them. There has been a steady rise in heroin use in the US. That stuff has to go somewhere. It will go where there is money to purchase it.

That's why we need to close that border. The media and those who wish to hurt this country always shape the argument in the terms of 'poor people' coming across that border. There is a lot of bad, very bad stuff - and people coming across that border.

I am inclined to agree on the legalization of drugs. I'm not sure how many times I would think a person should be given rehabilitation, but that's something to mull over.

I think legalize them, tax them, fair tax or not, and have very stiff repercussions for children getting them - deliberately or accidentally.
There should be super harsh penalties for committing a crime under the influence.

Then I think we should stop glamorizing drug dealers and drug use. How many movies to we see the drug dealers are made to be bigger than life with their gold, big SUV's, etc.? How many upscale and wealthy people are shown snorting cocaine,with no consequences.

Also, we need the DEA to begin concentrating on the real drug dealers, not the small distributors or street corner sales. The real drug dealers are way up the food chain from the bling wearing thugs.

Another form of addiction no one wants to talk about is legal drugs, prescribed by doctors and make drug companies very wealthy. How in the world does tons of prescription drugs end up on the streets without the drug companies being away of what is happening? They know, our government knows.

Another form of addiction no one wants to talk about is legal drugs, prescribed by doctors and make drug companies very wealthy. How in the world does tons of prescription drugs end up on the streets without the drug companies being away of what is happening? They know, our government knows.

I heard a report today that the underlying reason for the growth in heroin usage is from legal opiod users who turn to heroin because it's cheaper and easier than trying to get a prescription renewal. The medical industry including nurses and doctors in hospitals push these addictive medications for days while a patient is in the hospital when all they probably need is a Tylenol if anything at all.

So you make an excellent point, nntrixie!