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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Drug Ties Haunt Administration (fwd)
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> Article by Martin Mann for Spotlight shows just how involved this
>government is in illegal drugs.
>
> Anxious to sidestep any mention of the spreading corruption inflicted
>by the pernicious North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on both
>U.S. and Mexican society, President Bill Clinton unveiled a new
>"national narcotics strategy" on February 25, armed, in the main, only
>at persuading adolescents to "stay clean."
>
> "Clinton was right about one thing, the war on drugs is over--but not
>the way he tells it," says Gerald McLauchlan, a former California
>prosecutor now in private law school. "Since '93 cocaine and marijuana
>use among teenagers has doubled--in some age brackets tripled--and it's
>still rising."
>
> U.S. drug czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey, appearing with Clinton at a press
>conference to explain the administration's proposals, could add little
>in the way of encouragement.
>
> "We've got 1.6 million of them [drug offenders] in jail now, and arrest
>just about a million of them each year," the general noted glumly.
>"These numbers, moreover, are set to grow another 25 percent by the year
>2000 unless the propaganda and [drug treatment] campaigns we will
>emphasize this year prove successful."
>
> The unimpressive White House announcements were drowned out in the
>mainstream media by the discovery that Mexico's own drug czar, Gen.
>Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, had been on the cocaine cartel's payroll for
>several years.
>
> The new revelations confirmed that former Mexican President Carlos
>Salinas, hailed in the early '90's as the "reformer statesman" who
>became one of the principal architects of NAFTA, had long-standing ties
>to narcotics traffickers, a criminal connection inherited from his
>father, a drug-dealing former Mexican senator.
>
> Well ahead of the mainstream press, this populist newspaper warned as
>early as 1994 that "South of the border, NAFTA was negotiated, from
>first to last, with Mexican government officials and political bosses
>who were in the pay of major narcotics syndicates."
>
> Moreover,"...the Bush and Clinton administrations both know it," added
>the Spotlight, breaking the conspiracy of silence among news
>organizations over corrupt influences in Washington that matched--and
>coupled with--the criminality of Mexican politicians.
>
> But even this populist newspaper's groundbreaking investigative exposes
>were not always up to the mark, newly emerging documents suggest.
>
> "For a year and a half, Attorney General Janet Reno has suppressed and
>manipulated evidence of the Mexican government's intimate links with
>international drug traffickers in a deceptive pattern that warrants her
>own criminal prosecution on obstruction of justice, malfeasance and
>conspiracy charges." The Spotlight revealed two years ago.
>
> "Reno's efforts to bury the facts about [the Salinas regime] were
>driven by President Bill Clinton's peremptory insistence not to let any
>derogatory information interfere with the passage of NAFTA...and by the
>need to protect the interests of Wall Street financiers," the report
>added.
>
> Now it appears that Reno was informed even earlier, in March 1992 that
>federal agents had arrested a former confidential secretary of the
>Salinas family in Texas on drug-smuggling charges.
>
> Her confession revealed that Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico's
>president from 1988 through 1994--"the father of NAFTA" as he was known
>south of the border--and his brother Raul, now jailed, received "regular
>payoffs" from major narcotics combines.
>
> Mexico's first brothers inherited their secret partnership with the
>cocaine cartel from their father, Raul Salinas Lozano, who grew rich on
>drug bribes while serving as a cabinet minister and senator in a
>succession of Mexican administrations, the secretary confessed. Her
>testimony was ultimately "sealed" and shelved on Reno's orders.
>
> "It gives Mexico a bad odor, but at least we're hanging out our dirty
>laundry," says Mexican columnist Ignacio Molina. "Wait till the missing
>link of these scandals--the matching corruption among Washington
>politicians and Wall Street speculators--comes out into the open. It
>will make an even nastier stink."
>
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>
>LOOK WHO'S TALKING: NEW HOPE FOR KAHL by Andrew Arnold
>
> Two police officers involved in the Gordon Kahl case say they have been
>living a lie for the last 14 years, according to the attorney attempting
>to get a new case for Yorie Kahl.
>
> The younger Kahl is serving two life sentences plus 15 years after
>being convicted of second degree murder in the deaths of a pair of U.S.
>marshals near Medina, North Dakota on February 13, 1983.
>
> Police Officer Steve Schnabel who was wounded in the shoot-out, and
>former Police Chief Darrell Graf, who refused to be part of what
>authorities called a "roadblock" to capture Kahl, say powerful sources
>close to the case ordered their silence, according to Kahl attorney John
>DeCamp.
>
> "These two cops had a press conference and said they are tired of
>covering up for the feds," DeCamp said. "Like at Ruby Ridge, some
>people on the inside are telling the truth."
>
> Schnabel and Graf "said they were forced to keep quiet," DeCamp added.
>The attorney said he hopes this new testimony by eyewitnesses will
>encourage a federal judge to grant a new hearing.
>
> In 1983 authorities said they planned to grab Gordon Kahl, a
>Constitutionalist and tax protester, leaving a meeting in Medina.
>Patriots have long considered the roadblock an ambush designed to murder
>the elder Kahl. Yorie Kahl was wearing his father's jacket and cap that
>night. Armed men, who according to Kahl were not wearing uniforms, nor
>identifying themselves, stopped the group in North Dakota.
>
> The men opened fire, injuring Yorie Kahl immediately. The senior Kahl
>returned fire, killing two marshals and injuring three others before
>fleeing. Gordon Kahl was eventually killed by the government in
>Arkansas a few months later.
>
> DeCamp has said the Medina roadblock/ambush was the first in a long
>line of government-sponsored murders that include Ruby Ridge and Waco.
>
> Gary...........
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