Barack Obama and his Justice and Treasury Departments sat on a DEA task force that mapped Hezbollah trafficking cocaine into the United States and washing the money through hundreds of American used-car lots shipped to Africa. Investigators put the take at $1 billion a year. One network tied to Los Zetas was moving multi-ton loads into the U.S. and cleaning $200 million a month. DOJ refused to charge Hezbollah's envoy to Iran. State blocked lures that would have put top targets in cuffs. An Obama Treasury official later testified the probes were "tamped down for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal." The Defense analyst who helped run the case said it was "a policy decision" and they "serially ripped apart this entire effort… from the top down." After the Iran deal closed in January 2016, Project Cassandra was all but dead. The cocaine kept coming.
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Barack Obama and his Justice and Treasury Departments sat on a DEA task force that mapped Hezbollah trafficking cocaine into the United States and washing the money through hundreds of American used-car lots shipped to Africa.
Investigators put the take at $1 billion a year. One network tied to Los Zetas was moving multi-ton loads into the U.S. and cleaning $200 million a month.
DOJ refused to charge Hezbollah's envoy to Iran. State blocked lures that would have put top targets in cuffs.
An Obama Treasury official later testified the probes were "tamped down for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal."
The Defense analyst who helped run the case said it was "a policy decision" and they "serially ripped apart this entire effort… from the top down."
After the Iran deal closed in January 2016, Project Cassandra was all but dead.
The cocaine kept coming.
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