Mexican Blood, American Hands: Part 1

Whistle-blowers allege corruption, cartel ties
By Diana Washington Valdez \ El Paso Times
Posted: 09/19/2011 12:00:00 AM MDT

Two former law enforcement officers allege that they cannot get anyone to investigate allegations that the Mexican drug cartels have corrupted U.S. law officers and politicians in the El Paso border region.

Greg Gonzales, a retired Doña Ana County sheriff's deputy, and Wesley Dutton, a rancher and former New Mexico state livestock investigator, said that instead of arrests and prosecutions of suspects, their whistle-blowing activities have resulted only in threats and retaliation against themselves.

"I lost my job for a security company at the federal courthouse in Las Cruces because I would not keep my mouth shut, and someone threatened me by holding a knife to my throat," Gonzales said.

Dutton, a rancher in Southern New Mexico,
said an election official stopped by his ranch to ask him what was it going to take for him to retract his allegations concerning the official.

Confidential sources

Both men were confidential sources for the FBI in El Paso and assisted with investigations over an 18-month period.

Gonzales and Dutton allege that the FBI dropped them after "big names" on the U.S. side of the border began to surface in the drug investigations.

FBI Special Agent Michael Martinez said that the FBI cannot comment on its former or current relationships with confidential sources.

Dutton said an FBI official who used to be in El Paso sent a memo to other law enforcement agencies in the area to dissuade them from talking to him and Gonzales or having anything to do with them.

Gonzales and Dutton said both or either one of them helped with federal investigations that were successful, including the arrest of Special FBI Agent John Shipley. Shipley was convicted of weapons-related charges after a weapon he sold someone turned up in Chihuahua state at a scene where a firefight took place between Mexican soldiers and drug traffickers.

However, they said, they are concerned that other serious allegations have not found their way to court.

Hit on agent

"One of the street gangs that works for the Juárez cartel put a hit out on FBI Special Agent Samantha Mikeska, and I told the FBI as soon as I heard about it," Dutton said. "We also had information on campaign fundraisers and parties in La Union that the cartel held for officials from New Mexico and El Paso. A lot of important people were at those parties, such as bankers, judges, and law enforcement officers."

Mikeska is a high-profile agent whose investigations of the Barrio Azteca gang led to prosecutions of gang leaders. The gang, which has members in West Texas and New Mexico, is linked to the Carrillo Fuentes drug cartel.

Gonzales said a U.S. law enforcement officer was suspected of selling to a street gang with Juárez drug cartel ties a list of U.S. Marshals that included their telephone numbers.

"With their number, the gang was able to 'clone' the agents' cell phones and intercept their calls," Gonzales said. "That way, they would know when one of the agents was trying to serve an arrest warrant against one of their members."

Dutton and Gonzales said small aircraft regularly drop drug loads on ranches or other properties along the U.S.-Mexico border, and that some U.S. law officers escort the loads to the next stop.

The two whistle-blowers said that drug cartels have managed to obtain computer access codes to U.S. surveillance systems that let them see where and when Border Patrol agents are monitoring the border.

They also alleged that drug cartels have given big donations to politicians, which are unreported, to influence appointments of key law enforcement officers.

Some of these allegations were contained in a letter that Dutton provided to Gov. Rick Perry, who is seeking the Republican Party's nomination for president in the 2012 election.

"Our office received the letter and referred it to the appropriate agency, which was the Department of Public Safety," Josh Havens, a spokesman for the Texas governor's office, said last Friday.

Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety and a former FBI agent from El Paso, said last Friday that he was interested in talking to Dutton. Then, about a half-hour later, McCraw said that Dutton had no credibility.

'Nothing there'

"We looked into it and there was nothing there," McCraw said.

Dutton said in response, "How can they say there was nothing when they didn't even look at what I have?"

Dutton said he has videos, telephone records, and other documents gathered over the 18 months he worked with the FBI.

"The DPS never asked to see any of it," Dutton said.

During his work with the FBI, Dutton said the FBI asked him to accept drug shipments from Mexico through his ranching company.

"The drugs were concealed in horse saddles, and we started getting a lot of them," Dutton said. "But the FBI kept putting me off when I asked for the money to pay the cartels for the drugs. I had to use my own funds. The FBI still owes me thousands of dollars for these out-of-pocket expenses.

"I asked the FBI for help when I started getting threats, but the only thing that happened is that everyone starting running for cover to protect their careers," Dutton said. "One of the FBI agents said politics got in the way, and that they had to close out the investigation and end their relationship with me."

As a state livestock investigator, Dutton made arrests like any other law enforcement officer, collaborated with sheriffs' offices, seized drugs and investigated thefts. He also developed intelligence that drug cartels used cross-border cattle shipments to transport drugs across the border at Santa Teresa.

Zetas cartel

Dutton said other informants told him that the Zetas drug cartel has a high-level member in Las Cruces whose wife holds a non-law enforcement job in the "DA's office," referring to the Doña Ana County District Attorney's Office.

The whistle-blowers also alleged that the corruption they've encountered includes a prominent doctor in El Paso who provides prescriptions for drugs to people who need to pass lie-detector tests.

"The FBI was provided with all this information, and I guess that's why they're now saying that we're crazy," Dutton said.

Dutton and Gonzales said their frustration over the lack of investigations has compelled them to turn to U.S. lawmakers and to Judicial Watch for help.

Judicial Watch is a conservative, nonpartisan educational foundation in Washington, D.C., which promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.

The organization publishes a list each year of the "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" of both major political parties.

Chris Farrell, Judicial Watch research director, confirmed that Dutton has been in contact with his office.

"These are very serious allegations that should be investigated by law enforcement," Farrell said. "There are too many details and specifics to just ignore them. The threats against them (Dutton and Gonzales) also should be investigated."

Diana Washington Valdez may be reached at dvaldez@elpasotimes.com; 546-6140.

Anthrax, Ivins and Silicon: What to Believe?

In his January 24, 2010 Op Ed article The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved: The FBI disproved its main theory about how the spores were weaponized.(see excerpt below,) Edward Jay Epstein seems to effectively disprove the FBI's Summary of the Investigation of Dr. Bruce E. Ivins(PDF). But there are problems with this article.

For one, according to Sandia National Laboratories' news release of August 21, 2008 FBI unveils science of anthrax investigation: Sandia's work demonstrated anthrax letters contained non-weaponized form:

Using more sensitive transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Kotula and Michael’s research indicated that the silica in the spore samples was not added artificially, but was incorporated as a natural part of the spore formation process. The spores we examined, Kotula says, lacked that fuzzy outer coating that would indicate that they’d been weaponized.

. So the mere presence of silicon does not, according to Sandia, prove the Anthrax had been weaponized.

Another problem is that Epstein appears to be the only source for the claim that a 1.4% silicon content was reported by the FBI on on April 17, 2009. If that report is accurate, it certainly does raise more serious question about the FBI's case against Ivins.

As it stands we remain skeptical as to the merit of Epstein's claims. We need corroboration before we accept the claim of a 1.4% silicon content in the anthrax murder weapon. It also remains to be determined if that 1.4% value has any other reasonable explanation, if indeed it was present. IOW, could it have been added without coating the spores with a spray dryer?

From Epstein's article:

Yet the anthrax grown from it had silicon, according to the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. This silicon explained why, when the letters to Sens. Leahy and Daschle were opened, the anthrax vaporized into an aerosol. If so, then somehow silicon was added to the anthrax. But Ivins, no matter how weird he may have been, had neither the set of skills nor the means to attach silicon to anthrax spores.

At a minimum, such a process would require highly specialized equipment that did not exist in Ivins's lab—or, for that matter, anywhere at the Fort Detrick facility. As Richard Spertzel, a former biodefense scientist who worked with Ivins, explained in a private briefing on Jan. 7, 2009, the lab didn't even deal with anthrax in powdered form, adding, "I don't think there's anyone there who would have the foggiest idea how to do it." So while Ivins's death provided a convenient fall guy, the silicon content still needed to be explained.

The FBI's answer was that the anthrax contained only traces of silicon, and those, it theorized, could have been accidently absorbed by the spores from the water and nutrient in which they were grown. No such nutrients were ever found in Ivins's lab, nor, for that matter, did anyone ever see Ivins attempt to produce any unauthorized anthrax (a process which would have involved him using scores of flasks.) But since no one knew what nutrients had been used to grow the attack anthrax, it was at least possible that they had traces of silicon in them that accidently contaminated the anthrax.

Natural contamination was an elegant theory that ran into problems after Congressman Jerry Nadler pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller in September 2008 to provide the House Judiciary Committee with a missing piece of data: the precise percentage of silicon contained in the anthrax used in the attacks.

The answer came seven months later on April 17, 2009. According to the FBI lab, 1.4% of the powder in the Leahy letter was silicon. "This is a shockingly high proportion," explained Stuart Jacobson, an expert in small particle chemistry. "It is a number one would expect from the deliberate weaponization of anthrax, but not from any conceivable accidental contamination."

Nevertheless, in an attempt to back up its theory, the FBI contracted scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Labs in California to conduct experiments in which anthrax is accidently absorbed from a media heavily laced with silicon. When the results were revealed to the National Academy Of Science in September 2009, they effectively blew the FBI's theory out of the water.

The Livermore scientists had tried 56 times to replicate the high silicon content without any success. Even though they added increasingly high amounts of silicon to the media, they never even came close to the 1.4% in the attack anthrax. Most results were an order of magnitude lower, with some as low as .001%.

TWA 800 - The Search for the Truth (2002)

This is another major incident in which the evidence seems glaringly contrary to the officially announced conclusion.

TWA 800: The Search for the Truth" examines what happened that July night back in 1996, when TWA Flight 800 took off from Kennedy Airport in New York en route to Paris. Minutes later a series of explosions sent the 747 plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 230 people aboard. Correspondent Reid Collins, a 30-year veteran of CBS News and CNN, narrates this documentary and interviews eyewitnesses, family members of victims and air-crash investigators who have looked into what happened that night. Was the government correct in its conclusion that a spark in the center-wing fuel tank caused the explosion? Or have government officials covered up important facts about the fate of TWA Flight 800? Could the tragedy have been caused by an Islamic terrorist network? Or did a Naval exercise off the coast of Long Island go terribly wrong? A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says he believes the plane was shot down, and numerous military and civilian experts offer their opinions on what may or may not have happened. Watch this compelling and provocative program and decide for yourself. Has the full story been told? Not until now. If copyright becomes an issue on this video upload, it will be deleted immediately. Please rate and comment

Waco The Big Lie II

Linda Thompson is an Indianapolis based attorney who took it upon herself to gather all available evidence of the WACO disaster. For the first time you are able to see film footage not shown on the news-casts. You will see that even what was shown on the nightly news was "doctored" to make you believe what the Government wanted you to believe, instead of the Truth.

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Heinz, Acxiom and 9/11

Below the reader will find excerpts from an article we discovered on Strike the Root. We have not attempted to extract more than a sampling of the content, and we encourage our readers to read the entire article.

It is difficult to determine exactly how cohesively all the pieces mentioned in the article fit together. They seem worthy of attention individually, and are clearly more so if they can be shown to represent a unified model of corruption and treachery.

Why Quit, Henry? Is It Acxiom?

by Jim Rarey

When Dr. K (Kissinger) withdrew as co-chairman of the commission to investigate the 9/11 terrorist attacks after refusing to make his client list public, he bitterly asserted his consulting business represented no foreign companies or governments that would constitute a conflict of interest with his duties on the commission. Although there is no particular reason we should believe anything Kissinger says, for purposes of this article, let’s take that assertion at face value. That would mean if there is a conflict, it must be with one or more of his domestic (U.S.) clients.

Kissinger’s two consulting firms (Kissinger & Associates and Kissinger-McLarty & Associates) advise a large number of U.S. companies. Yes, it is that McLarty, Mack McLarty who was Bill Clinton’s chief of staff and is now vice-chairman of the first firm and partner in the second.

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Other examples could be cited, but in this writer’s opinion, the association Dr. K is most afraid might be made public is with the little known company Acxiom.

Hardly a household name (we will try to change that), Acxiom has been selected the lead company to provide software and pull together the network to furnish the information to DARPA’s “Information Awareness Office” (IAO) where John Poindexter of Iran-Contra infamy will prepare individual dossiers on every American citizen and the millions of aliens (legal and illegal) in the country.

The plan calls for the collection of information from a staggering number of sources, such as banks, credit unions, health care organizations, the IRS and Social Security agencies, the INS, the FBI, grocery chains and any number of other companies and government agencies (federal, state and local) that have records of individual transactions.

But even this association might be covered up in these days of managed news. No, what scares Kissinger the most is the control and history of Acxiom itself. The company may be more than just a client. Mack McLarty sits on its Board of Directors, which implies some kind of investment to protect.

...Then how about its original name, Systematics? Now memories come flooding back of the PROMIS software scandal and those associated with it.

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When Treasury forced Inslaw into bankruptcy (by withholding payments due Inslaw) ownership of the software wound up with a CIA cutout named the Hadron Corp. Hadron peddled the software to governments and financial institutions around the world, thus giving the CIA backdoor access to the secret information of a number of governments and banks.

...Acxiom/Alltel/Systematics is Arkansas billionaire Jackson Stephens. ...

At Systematics, one of the lawyers Stephens hired to represent the company was a bright young attorney named Hillary Rodham. ... Hillary, Vince Foster and Webster Hubbell ...

Stephens was a financial angel to both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. ...

Another scandal suppressed by the “watchdogs of the press” was the cocaine smuggling aspects of the Iran/Contra affair.

...Contras in Nicaragua, cocaine ... dropped off at a small airport at Mena, Arkansas. Pilot Barry Seal, a CIA asset and drug runner, ... dropping bales of cash in Mena. The drug money was laundered ... through Stephen’s Worthen bank and an ... agency set up by Governor Bill Clinton (the Arkansas Development Finance Authority). ...[T]hen Vice-President George H.W. Bush, ... Caspar Weinberger.

A partner with Stephens ... Mochtar Riady, one of the principals in the Indonesian Lippo Group. ... campaign financing scandals of the second Clinton presidential campaign, with links to the Chinese military.

The Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) ... became a repository and laundering channel for a broad spectrum of organizations, including the terrorists as well as[sic] Mossad and the CIA.

Later, Assistant District Attorney Robert Morgenthau in New York launched a comprehensive investigation into BCCI until it was shut down by Robert Mueller in the Department of Justice (now FBI Director) and Mary Jo White, Clinton-appointed U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York. White was held over by George W. Bush long enough to deep six the investigation of Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich. ...

Iron Mountain Holds UAL 93 Secrets

When we asked at the Shanksville Flight 93 Memorial about the final disposition of the wreckage from UAL 93 we were told that it had been returned to the airline company. This assertion struck us as completely inconsistent with what would be expected for the handling of evidence in an as yet unsolved mass murder. The account provided in the above video seem more consistent with the nature of the situation, but still raises troubling questions regarding many aspects of the case. What does the debris indicate regarding the possibility of a shoot down? What does it tell us about the identity of the plane from which it came? Can serial numbers from parts be traced to maintenance logs.

Sibel Edmonds: Drugs, Arms, NSC & Congress

Kill The Messenger - Al-Qaeda and the FBI - The Sibel Edmonds Story

This documentary reveals how a foreign spy ring with links to "Al-Qaeda" has been discovered working within the FBI. Sibel Edmonds began work at the FBI translating wire taps in an investigation into This documentary reveals how a foreign spy ring with links to "Al-Qaeda" has been discovered working within the FBI. Sibel Edmonds began work at the FBI translating wire taps in an investigation into a foreign spy ring operating in the US. She became suspicious of her colleagues after discovering some mistranslations and was then invited to join the spy ring which had evidently infiltrated the FBI itself. She went straight to her bosses and rather than being hailed as a hero she was promptly sacked. After going public on 60 Minutes she has been officially gagged.

Sibel Edmonds is something the criminals in Washington don't understand. They believe people such as Sibel don't exist. They begin with the premise that everyone is corrupt or corruptible, its just a matter of finding their price or finding their vice. They do not know what it means to be truth incarnate.

Waco - A New Revelation (1999)

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Waco: A New Revelation is the film that triggered a new Congressional investigation of the Waco tragedy, and caused the Justice Department and the FBI to reverse their long-held positions on Waco. It has generated a firestorm of events unprecedented in the history of documentary filmmaking.

After six years of painstaking investigation, the complete story of the tragedy in Texas is finally coming to light. This compelling feature-length documentary presents new revelations about the events that led up to the deaths of 79 men, women and children at Mount Carmel on April 19, 1993.

In the spring of 1998, under the Freedom of Information Act, investigators from MGA Studio's film division became the first private citizens to gain access to the Waco investigation evidence lockers. What they found was shocking. Upon examination, the evidence gathered under the supervision of federal officials appeared to contradict the FBI's congressional testimony, raising serious and disturbing questions about events surrounding the siege at Mt. Carmel and the deaths of the Davidians.

Gene CullenSince 1993, former members of the FBI, former Special Forces and CIA operatives have come forward with new evidence to suggest that the FBI's claim is inaccurate.

Waco: The Big Lie

Thompson argues convincingly that the ATF's initial assault on Mt. Carmel was legally grounded on nothing more than a $200 weapons surchage that Koresh had failed to pay. With proof of that in their back pocket, the ATF called out U.S. Army gunships, and attacked the compound with dozens of stoked, reckless agents employing massive gunpower. The footage on this video demonstrates that the Branch Davidians did not meet the ATF with "a hail of gunfire." You'll see unthreatened ATF agents riddling the front of the compound with gunfire, fully aware that inside were dozens of women and children. The ATF had plenty of time to shoot not only the house; they fired on themselves, other agents, children playing outside, long before a Branch Davidian fired a single shot in self defense. The video also details the FBI's effective bamboozlement of a compliant press, but the most controversial part of the tape comes at the end, when Thompson provides footage allegedly showing government tanks with flamethrowers that she contends set the fire that killed all 89 people inside. You may (and should) question some of what this video contends, but it does contain actual footage of a government attacking its own citizens. Not that that hasn't happened before. But now it's on videotape.

The above characterization was provided by the person who originally posted the video. The Vehmgericht believes that the depiction of Koresh in the video my gloss over some of his eccentricities. Nonetheless, it is beyond dispute that the lesser of two evils was on the inside of the Mt. Carmel compound during the siege and subsequent massacre. The video provides much additional insight to the already damning indictment rendered in Waco: The Rules of Engagement, which the audience is advised to take into consideration along with the video above.

WACO: The Rules of Engagement

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Bonus:Infrared Footage Bonus: 911 calls The first full-length documentary film to present the complete picture of the series of events outside Waco, Texas during 1993 that resulted in the shooting of 4 federal agents and the deaths of 86 men, women, and children of the Branch Davidian religious sect. A highly detailed examination of the interaction between David Koresh, his members, and Federal Law Enforcement. It shows how the FBI misled the public and American political leaders in order to focus overwhelming force on a group whose diversity of race, national origin, and apocalyptic religious beliefs made its members easy targets for lethal abuse of civil and human rights. Gripping and deeply thought provoking, the film provides America with something it truly needs - an opportunity to review the historical record of events at Waco. The findings raise doubts about the FBI's version of the story and their larger role in similar instances of law enforcement. http://www.waco93.com/ [alex jones new world order police state martial law oklahoma city david koresh]

The is an important documentary. It truly calls into question what the legitimate role of law enforcement is. The ATF and FBI conducted paramilitary operations against reasonably law abiding , and evidently peaceful people. It began as publicity stunt intended to bolster the prowess of the US ATF who have a dubious role in the first place. Their proximity to the department of the Treasury and the Secret Service is cause for concern. Do they serve a legitimate role which should not more reasonably fall under the FBI?

OKLAHOMA CITY: What Really Happened?

* Overview of the OKC Bombing case created by State Representative Charles Key. * Takes a look at major issues regarding the cover up by the FBI and Justice Department. * Including: Eyewitnesses, Other Bombs found and Prior Knowledge.