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RickS

Mar 27, 2012, 2:21 PM

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Recently discharged (for good reason!) Army First Lieutenant Kevin Corley was arrested Saturday for allegedly offering to sell military weapons and tactical training in the use thereof to the Los Zetas, AND to 'raid a ranch and kill rival cartel members' in return for $50,000 and 5 kilos of cocaine.

Only problem is, the folks he and others were dealing with were undercover agents of the DEA! The 'negotiations' began in January 2011 when Corley was still on active duty with the Army.

See the following for the rest of this bizarre story: http://www.denverpost.com/...m-www.denverpost.com

leegleze

Mar 28, 2012, 10:40 AM

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Thanks for posting this. It just validates what we've known all along.
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YucaLandia

Mar 28, 2012, 10:47 AM

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Sad, but true.
Criminals within the US military, government, and law enforcement (along with their Mexican counterparts) need to be rooted-out & punished.
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richmx2

Mar 28, 2012, 3:31 PM

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So, based on the media-created sense that the criminal gang whose name begins with the letter "Z" is some sort of elite fighting force, a foreign government's agency creates fictional criminals in order to lead criminally minded persons from its own military into temptation... and ends up getting one of them killed.

While it's probably a good idea to "get over" the idea that the U.S. military is any less susceptible to criminality than any other (and, prosecuting wars and occupations is probably more prone than most to anti-social behavior), building up the meme that criminals here have some interest in subverting the U.S. military might be seen as an attempt to justify U.S. intervention.

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donemry

Mar 30, 2012, 7:13 AM

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What was it that we knew all along?

YucaLandia

Mar 30, 2012, 7:45 AM

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"Money talks" - to some soldiers, police, & politicians, whether they speak English, Spanish, or Russian.
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Altahabana

Mar 31, 2012, 4:56 AM

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"Money talks" - to some soldiers, police, & politicians, whether they speak English, Spanish, or Russian.

I thought the poster making the "confirms what we already knew" comment had something more black helicopterish in mind.

While the above is certainly true, this is an abberation. Official corruption may exist everywhere, but it tends to occur far less frequently in countries with efficient and basically above board law enforcement systems. These guys are going to get slammed by the system, particularly the army officer.

richmx2

Mar 31, 2012, 8:32 PM

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Official corruption may exist everywhere, but it tends to occur far less frequently in countries with efficient and basically above board law enforcement systems.

... alas, if that were true, it would be a former Guatemalan President who was recently tried and convicted for relatively petty crimes, but people like Dick Cheney or the Koch Brothers or some of those other major corruptors in a country with a "efficient and basically above board law enforcement". Yeah, that sounds cynical, and I'm not saying that those bozos who thought they were gonna be super-bad "Zs" don't deserve to be hung out to dry (and don't doubt for a second that they will be), in the first corruption case we know about, it was the corrupter who was the really, really evil one... THE Evil One to be exact. Eve was just stupid enough to fall for it.

Here, it was the DEA holding out the forbidden fruit.

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Altahabana

Apr 1, 2012, 5:36 AM

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You are making an apples and oranges comparison Rich and you know it. The Chaney example, assuming its Halliburton, is the type of political dealmaking and graft that goes on in every western style democracy. But that activity can also get slammed when it crosses a vaguely defined line. I was referring to situations where the government employee says " You put X$ in my pocket and using the power of my position in return I will do Y."

And no offense but your comments about the instigator/evil one in this little drama and how it probably came down srikes me as a little naive. Think about this scenario:

1. Ex-military dude in South Carolina gets into the local drug trafficking and over time develops Mexican cartel/ connections in the border area.

2. DEA informant or someone in South Carolina guy's distribution chain gives him up and he's brought in.

3. Dude gets his lawyer and starts talking to DEA about what he can pass along to get a lower score under the sentencing guidelines.

4. Enterprising army officer/friend of South Carolina dude has known about his trafficking and Mexican connections and has casually let him know that officer is interested in marketing his military skills to Mexican cartels. Dude remembers this and lets DEA know.

5. DEA guys go up the ladder and get approval for a sting operation. South Carolina dude contacts his military buddy and says I can set up meeting with cartel contacts to discuss "weapon purchases, training, hits, etc." Military guy says okay, still interested. Contact is made and DEA/Zeta reps comunicate and start negotiating with army guy and his crew.

6. Deal gets cut, but army guy gets busted. Whole operation including South Carolina connection then gets revealed.

I don't know that this is what actually happened. But it is a lot more likely than a theory that some bored DEA agents were brainstorming and came up with a scheme to see if there might be people in the military who would be tempted to engage in some illegal activities with Mexican drug cartels.

Reefhound

Apr 1, 2012, 11:40 AM

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Official corruption may exist everywhere, but it tends to occur far less frequently in countries with efficient and basically above board law enforcement systems.

... alas, if that were true,

It IS true.

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in the first corruption case we know about, ...

And that proves it. If the US Army was being corrupted as often as other places, there would hundreds of known cases over recent years.