Who’s going to be the first member of Congress to call for hearings into the CIA/Karzai clique relationship?

ROFLMAO… call for investigations….HaHaHA..

Just because this has been “officially” leaked to the Times, doesn’t mean it hasn’t been patently obvious on alternate sites, especially outside the US. Most of the Pakistani’s speak english, and there are a lot of blogs.

If our “dear leaders” even had a passing interest in knowing about this it has been “out there” the whole time, but if it makes the NYT’s I guess they have to stop feigning ignorance.
What a joke.

The Taliban, for all their oppressive ways, do not allow the farmers to grow opium.

From Dec 16, 2001

…., what would have been the world’s largest curtailment of opium production in half a century will now apparently be reversed. As the Taliban was driven or fled from province after province, reports indicated farmers were replanting wheat fields with opium poppies.

Another dark indicator of a coming boom is the recent and unexpected release from a Pakistani jail of Ayub Afridi, once the Khyber Pass kingpin for a network of Pashtun drug warlords in Nangarhar Province. Some have interpreted his release as a boost to his former contacts such as Abdul Qadir, Mohammed Zaman and Hazrat Ali, who, according to the Asia Times Daily in Hong Kong, used to be the biggest heroin and opium mafia in Afghanistan’s Pashtun belt.

Abdul Qadir is now the political leader in Nangarhar Province, west of Khyber Pass, while Hazrat Ali and Mohammed Zaman are leading the Afghan ground attack against the al Qaeda holdouts in the nearby Tora Bora caves.

The lack of U.S. comment and nearly invisible reporting on these developments are ominous signs that Washington may turn a blind eye as its former proteges and current allies finance themselves once again with drug traffic.

Yet another sign is active disinformation by officials of the Bush administration.

The Taliban’s drastic ongoing reduction in opium cultivation was ignored, and indeed misrepresented, by CIA Director George Tenet in his February report to Congress, in a speech that threatened retaliatory strikes against the Taliban. “Production in Afghanistan has been exploding, accounting for 72 percent of illicit global opium production in 2000,” Tenet said. He added that “The Taliban regime in Afghanistan… encourages and profits from the drug trade.

Has Spencer even written about Sibel Edmonds yet?

“EDMONDS: Okay. So these conversations, between 1997 and 2001, had to do with a Central Asia operation that involved bin Laden. Not once did anybody use the word “al-Qaeda.” It was always “mujahideen,” always “bin Laden” and, in fact, not “bin Laden” but “bin Ladens” plural. There were several bin Ladens who were going on private jets to Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. The Turkish ambassador in Azerbaijan worked with them.

There were bin Ladens, with the help of Pakistanis or Saudis, under our management. Marc Grossman was leading it, 100 percent, bringing people from East Turkestan into Kyrgyzstan, from Kyrgyzstan to Azerbaijan, from Azerbaijan some of them were being channeled to Chechnya, some of them were being channeled to Bosnia. From Turkey, they were putting all these bin Ladens on NATO planes. People and weapons went one way, drugs came back.

GIRALDI: Was the U.S. government aware of this circular deal?

EDMONDS: 100 percent. A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium with NATO planes. After that, they went to the UK, and a lot came to the U.S. via military planes to distribution centers in Chicago and Paterson, New Jersey. Turkish diplomats who would never be searched were coming with suitcases of heroin.”

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/00006/

This is just the tip of the iceberg on the opium connection. You think you can drop tens of thousands of soldiers into the biggest poppy field in the world and some of them won’t go rogue? I heard personally from several soldiers coming back that Americans are involved in the drug trade.

All we ever get are lies. Lies, lies, lies.