{"id":3107,"date":"2011-10-12T15:13:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2011-10-12T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:16:00","slug":"dea-informants-americas-biggest-liars-iran-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/dea-informants-americas-biggest-liars-iran-farce\/","title":{"rendered":"DEA Informants: America’s Biggest Liars? – Iran Farce"},"content":{"rendered":"

All this hoopla over the alleged Iranian plot to use Mexican drug lords to carry out an assassination of a Saudi at a fictitious DC restaurant – I knew there was something very strange about this…<\/p>\n

And then I read that the linchpin of the case is a paid Drug Enforcement Administration informant who recently faced drug charges and had “cooperated” with authorities to avoid going to prison himself. <\/p>\n

Geez, doesn’t anybody in the mainstream media have a BS radar any more?<\/p>\n

DEA informants are notorious for being even more dishonest than congressmen. Here is a link to an NPR story<\/strong><\/a> last year on one slippery DEA informant that blew up a major case. The DEA knew that its most successful informant from the mid-1980s through 1999 was a brazen liar<\/strong><\/a> who routinely committed perjury in federal court. But the feds had no problem with using someone who subverted justice and made a mockery of the judicial system. <\/p>\n

Given the nature of US drug laws, the DEA relies on perpetual deceit to justify its own existence.<\/p>\n

And we are supposed to rely on a DEA informant to rev up the case for going to war with Iran?<\/p>\n

Just when I think that DC could not be fuller of ****, the Obama administration proves me wrong again. <\/p>\n

James Bovard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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