"Fast and Furious" May be Much Worse Than What You Thought it Was!

Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla

A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel member named Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla which is known as Sinaloa Cartel's "logistics coordinator" claims that "Fast and Furious" had nothing to do with "tracking guns" and get this, he was extradited to Chicago last year to face federal drug charges. Nothing like the sending criminals to a place that elects them to govern. He must feel like he is at home. Anyway, he claims that "Fast and Furious" was part of an elaborate scheme between the U.S. government and Mexico's powerful Sinaloa Cartel to take down rival cartels. He claims it was a "divide and conquer" strategy where the U.S. helps arm  the Sinaloa Cartel in exchange for information that would help the DEA , U.S. Immigration and  Custom Enforcement (ICE) to take down rival drug cartels.

On top of that, he says that his cartel was allowed a pass to traffic massive amounts of drugs across the border from 2004 to 2009. The agreement was to allow the cartel free-access across our borders with drugs as long as the intelligence kept coming.

As expected, many high-ranking government officials are keeping a close eye on this case, because if any of these claims are true, many high-ranking government officials will have some serious questions to answer to include the Attorney General and possibly the President.

A source within Congress said this,

“Congress won’t get involved in any criminal case until the trial is over and the smoke has cleared … if the allegations prove to hold any truth, there will be some serious legal ramifications.”

Here is an excerpt taken directly from the motion filed in federal court,

“This strategy, which he calls ‘Divide & Conquer,’ using one drug organization to help against others, is exactly what the Justice Department and its various agencies have implemented in Mexico. In this case, they entered into an agreement with the leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel through, among others, Humberto Loya-Castro, to receive their help in the United States government’s efforts to destroy other cartels.”

“Indeed, United States government agents aided the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.”

To make matters even worse, Zambada-Niebla claims that he is an undercover DEA informant that was offered immunity for his cooperation. Another excerpt,

“It is estimated that approximately 3,000 people were killed in Mexico as a result of ‘Operation Fast and Furious,’ including law enforcement officers in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, the headquarters of the Sinaloa cartel. The Department of Justice’s leadership apparently saw this as an ingenious way of combating drug cartel activities.”

“It has recently been disclosed that in addition to the above-referenced problems with ‘Operation Fast & Furious,’ the DOJ, DEA, and the FBI knew that some of the people who were receiving the weapons that were being allowed to be transported to Mexico, were in fact informants working for those organizations and included some of the leaders of the cartels.”

Even though courts admit that Zambada-Niebla has knowledge of “classified materials”, they say that he has not given sufficient evidence to prove that he was a DEA informant. In April, 2012, a federal judge refused to dismiss charges against him. The judge wrote this,

“According to the government, [Zambada-Niebla] conveyed his interest and willingness to cooperate with the U.S. government, but the DEA agents told him they ‘were not authorized to meet with him, much less have substantive discussions with him.’”

One may wonder why! Smells like a scandal to me. It is my prediction that “heads will roll” over this one!