Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez received cocaine shipments from Colombia and duped the US anti-drugs agency, a Honduran former drug lord told a federal trial in New York on Monday.
snubbed handshake. for the latest, we have cnn s athena jones. athena, this is crazy. tell me what you ve been learning. it s fascinating, frightening. it s like a crime drama or a movie. the details we re learning. one thing we re learning from this man who is testifying, garcia, one of the leaders of the sinaloa cartel, arrested back in 2008, but signed a cooperation agreement and hasn t been sentenced. so he is spilling all the beans about how this massive operation dealing with billions and billions of dollars worked. one of the things we re learning is about the bribes paid. he says that el chapo personally asked him to pay a mexican general $100,000 to get one of el chapo s cocaine shipments through the state of guerrero, mexico, in southern mexico. this man testifying says while he controlled the mexico city part of the operation, the warehouses, the store, the cocaine, et cetera, he estimates he paid $300,000 in bribes a
states with terror money. they did know that, correct? if you look at his tweets, he is saying that s not true. that the interagency process involves the intelligence community, state department treasury, folks like him on the sanctions policy group were monitoring this very closely. and they did not agree that the obama administration suddenly changed its policy. now, if the obama administration did, that is problematic. but the problem is this 50-page plus story with lots of details is really just based on the testimony of just two people. and that s problematic. so it needs further investigation before you indict the entire obama administration. tucker: i don t know that s true. i m not indicting the entire obama administration. the show is not long enough to do that. i am merely saying that this piece purportedly is based on interviews with dozens of people, it says, directly involved in this. there is an on the record piece of written testimony before congress, an obama treasu
not true. that the interagency process involves the intelligence community, state department treasury, folks like him on the sanctions policy group were monitoring this very closely. and they did not agree that the obama administration suddenly changed its policy. now, if the obama administration did, that is problematic. but the problem is this 50-page plus story with lots of details is really just based on the testimony of just two people. and that s problematic. so it needs further investigation before you diet the entire obama administration. tucker: i don t know that s true. i m not indicting the entire obama administration. the show is not long enough to enjoy it i m herely saying this piece purportedly is based on interviews with dozens of people, it says, directly involved in this. there is an on the record piece of written testimony before congress obama treasury official saying that a specific d.e.a. operation, cassandra, meant to interdict cocaine
cocaine shipments into the u.s. by hezbollah. a terror group, of course, closely al lined with iran. based on interviews with dozens of participants familiar with the obama administration s dealings, politico reports quote when project cassandra leaders sought approval for significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the obama justice and treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests. now, allies of the former president have responded by insisting he was tough on hezbollah with sanctions. and that the politico story notes itself there is no direct evidence that the obama administration undermined project cassandra directly in order to save the iran deal. but conservatives jumping on a comment in that article by obama cia director john brennan who asserted the administration was just trying to build up moderate elements within hezbollah. i think that s delusional the fact is everybody in the iranian hierarchy whether they