In addition to letting illegal weapons walk across the border to the Sinaloa Mexican Drug Cartel, apparently our Justice Department has also been allowing the Cartel to walk cocaine and heroin back across the border into the US.
Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, son of one of Mexico’s most-wanted Sinaloa Cartel drug kingpins, is being held in Chicago awaiting trial for trafficking heroin and cocaine. He could face life if convicted.
His defense according to a recent story in the El Paso Times, is that US federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa Cartel to move several tons of cocaine across the border into this country while the ATF was allowing automatic weapons and grenade parts to walk back across the border into the hands of the same Cartel.
A motion was filed in US District Court on September 29 of this year in which attorneys for Zambada-Niebla are requesting an extension of time to respond because the Justice Department is refusing to turn over documents that Zambada-Niebla claims grant the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel immunity from prosecution for trafficking drugs into the US in exchange for information on other Mexican Drug Cartels.
On September 9th, Lawyers for the Justice Department, while denying the Cartel ever had immunity, also filed a Memorandum of Points and Authorities Regarding Pretrial Conference Pursuant to the Classified Information Procedures Act (“CIPA”) to prevent the defense from having access to the pertinent documentation. This is a familiar tactic employed by Eric Holder’s DOJ to stall and obfuscate.
Reading between the lines, it appears the Eric Holder’s Justice Department is not only picking winners and losers in the guitar business here at home, but is also picking winners and losers in the drug trafficking business across the Mexican border, by providing the Sinaloa Cartel with weapons while at the same time allowing them to bring their products into the United States unmolested.
This begs the question, is the recent announcement of a crackdown on medicinal marijuana an effort to curb legal competition for the Cartel in the States? This change in medicinal Marijuana policy is in direct conflict with prior statements made by the Obama Administration. A story in USA Today quotes Stephen Gutwillig, California director of the Drug Policy Alliance, “The Obama administration, in what seems to be a concerted effort across the state, is betraying the promise it originally made to leave patients and their caregivers alone. We think this is an outrageous expression of bad faith, bad policy and bad politics.”
But it might be good commerce for the Sinaloa Cartel.