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   From: bvh@yahoo.com   
      
   Attorney General Eric Holder may find himself back on the hot   
   seat again after a new report shows that the federal government   
   armed the Sinaloa cartel in exchange for information.   
   Additionally, this alleged new development brings into question   
   whether Holder knew about the program he's denied ever knowing   
   about.   
      
   Business Insider's Michael Kelley, who reported on this   
   development yesterday, wrote that "an investigation by El   
   Universal [a major Mexican newspaper] found that between the   
   years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with   
   Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to   
   smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided   
   information on rival cartels."   
      
   Furthermore, "the El Universal investigation is the first to   
   publish court documents that include corroborating testimony   
   from a DEA agent and a Justice Department official."   
      
   Those statements relate to the U.S. District Court in Chicago   
   concerning the arrest of Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, the son   
   of Sinaloa leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and allegedly the   
   Sinaloa cartel's "logistics coordinator," according to Kelley.   
      
   It's been alleged that, in exchange for information on rival   
   cartels, federal law enforcement would allow the Sinaloa cartel   
   to continue their trafficking of narcotics unmolested and that   
   their leadership would be safe from federal prosecution.  Kelley   
   wrote that, in February of 2010, "Zambada-Niebla argued that he   
   was also 'immune from arrest or prosecution' because he actively   
   provided information to U.S. federal agents." He "also alleged   
   that Operation Fast and Furious was part of an agreement to   
   finance and arm the cartel in exchange for information used to   
   take down its rivals. (If true, that re-raises the issue   
   regarding what Attorney General Eric Holder knew about the gun-   
   running arrangements.), added Kelley.   
      
   If this turns out to be true, it will be quite the bombshell.   
   But, for now, the media is obsessed with Chris Christie's   
   alleged politically-motivated traffic jam on the most important   
   bridge in the entire universe.   
      
   http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/report-fast-and-furious-   
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