Investigations Into BATFE Accelerate (A Crude Chronology Since late March 2011)

[Ed Jewett]

Here is a collection of background information about Robert "Tosh" Plumlee and the historical Iran-Contra cocaine trafficking mess which both "informs" the "Fast & Furious" business and details governmental and political involvement that is still present. Much of this has previously appeared here at DPF.



http://toshplumlee.info/pdf/sengaryhart.PDF

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"The following FBI/DEA/CIA files were released between the years 1981 and 1999. These United States government files are placed here for review by professional researchers, law enforcement officials and by the general public. A responsible review of these documents should provide the reader with a clear picture of the covert background of Tosh Plumlee.

A careful review of these documents will reveal that the United States Department of Justice has been guilty of obstruction of justice since 1963 and before."

[/url] http://toshplumlee.info/
[url=http://toshplumlee.info]**

"I Ran Drugs for Uncle Sam" by Neal Matthews, San Diego Reader
http://nealmatthews.com/Documents/Tosh.pdf (requires printing 11 pages)


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I Ran Drugs for Uncle Sam--William "Tosh" Plumlee parts 1-5
(five hours worth of radio interviews on YouTube)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO5BmtD0Zfs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd06eoMBU...re=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyrLeuY3zfg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5hmbKKwv...sponse_rev


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ78hkku-44

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http://www.ocweekly.com/2006-09-14/news/...e-airways/


http://www.ocweekly.com/2006-10-05/news/men-in-suits/


http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/20...ged_pe.php


https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...e-Pentagon




See Page 462 of Rodney Stich's book "Defrauding America" (online here at Google)
http://books.google.com/books?id=YF7NIA8...ee&f=false




See Leslie Cockburn's book Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection


http://www.whale.to/b/cockburnbook.jpg


As a New York-based producer for the network in the 1980s she covered, among other topics, the U.S.-directed Contra War against Nicaragua. Her 1984 report, "The Dirty War," for which she traveled through regions of Nicaragua that were officially off-limits as being too dangerous for journalists to visit, revealed the Contras' horrifying record of routine atrocities against the civilian population.[3] In subsequent reports she laid out the degree to which Contras were heavily involved in the narcotics business as well as the first full account of the role of White House aide Colonel Oliver North in directing the whole Contra war.[4]
Following the overthrow of the Duvalier regime in Haiti in 1986, Cockburn's report "Haiti's Nightmare" (1987)[5] on the brutality of a Haitian military unit being armed and trained by the U.S. led to an outcry in Congress and the suspension of all U.S. military aid to Haiti.[6] ... In 1987 Cockburn began producing and reporting documentaries for PBS Frontline in collaboration with her husband Andrew Cockburn. In Guns, Drugs, and the CIA,[8] (1987) she interviewed, on camera, Tony Po, aka Anthony Posephne, a legendary covert operations officer who had supervised the CIA's secret war in Northern Laos during the 1960s and early 1970s. In the interview, Po stated that the CIA had supplied air transport for the heroin shipments of their local ally, General Vang Pao, the only such on-the-record confirmation by a former CIA officer concerning agency involvement in the narcotics trade.[9]
In 1990 Cockburn produced and directed "From the Killing Fields" for the ABC News documentary show Peter Jennings Reports. The film alleged that the U.S. had long been covertly supporting the Khmer Rouge, the genocidal movement responsible for the deaths of millions in Cambodia in the 1970s who had been displaced by a Vietnamese-back regime in 1979. U.S. assistance to the murderous group, Cockburn alleged, had been ongoing throughout the 1980s.[10] The Bush Administration subsequently terminated covert aid to anti-Vietnamese forces, a move that led to the eventual UN-supervised peace settlement in Cambodia.[11]
During the Gulf War in 1991, Cockburn reported from Israel on the Iraqi Scud attacks against Tel Aviv. Her film, shot from a high-rise building close to the impact zone, provided irrefutable evidence that contrary to official reports, the U.S.-supplied Patriot missiles were not only entirely failing to intercept the Scuds but were instead impacting on the city itself.[12] ...


In 2000, she produced "America's Worst Nightmare,"[17] a 60 Minutes report on political instability in nuclear-armed Pakistan and the growing power in the country of fundamentalist groups linked to the Taliban, a piece that was recognized as "strikingly prophetic" in receiving the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in 2001.[18][19] In 2002 she did a report on the true effects of U. S. anti-narcotics aerial spraying on the civilian population of Colombia.[20] ...


In 2009, Leslie Cockburn directed and co-produced (with husband Andrew Cockburn) her first feature documentary for theatrical release. American Casino relates the story of the origins, progress and consequences of the subprime mortgage disaster that led to the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Beginning filming in January 2008, Cockburn laid bare both the financial machinations and miscalculations on Wall Street that produced the disaster as well as its effects on an array of Baltimore homeowners struggling to stay afloat. The film premiered at New York's Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009.
Variety described it as a " searing expose of the subprime mortgage crisis (matching) Wall Street's numbers and graphics to the flesh-and-blood individuals whose lives have been devastated by the deliberate machinations of bankers and traders." [21]
Slant magazine called it a "revelatory howl against the still-gestating, $8 trillion-and-counting financial-services industry bailout."[22]
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said "American Casino is a powerful and shocking look at the subprime lending scandal. If you want to understand how the US financial system failed and how mortgage companies ripped off the poor, see this film."[23]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cockburn