So The DEA Sent Sean Penn To Get
Al Chapo?
By Moon
Of Alabama
January 11,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- "Moon
Of Alabama
" - The
Rolling Stones
story in which actor Sean Penn meets and
interviews the Mexican drug lord El Chapo is weird.
Some of the details do not make sense. It smells.
El Chapo
was recently (re-)captured in an large operation by
Mexican marines together with U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency agents.
Even more
suspect than the Sean Penn piece itself is the fact
that the NYT published a large front page piece
on the the Rolling Stone story some minutes
before the Rolling Stone story itself was published.
Who gave it to the NYT and when? The NYT repeats
essentials parts of the Penn piece but in a more
polished version.
It also
adds this to the overall story:
A Mexican
government official, speaking on the condition
of anonymity to describe confidential matters,
said the authorities were aware of the meeting
with Mr. Penn.
An AP
reporter seems to have talked to the same anonymous
Mexican official who
suggests:
[A]
Mexican official said security forces at one
point located the world's most-wanted trafficker
thanks to a secret interview with U.S. actor
Sean Penn.
Hmm ..
The NYT
piece also has says this about the story:
In a
disclosure that ran with the story, Rolling
Stone said it had changed some names and
withheld some locations. An
understanding was reached with Mr. Guzmán,
it said, that the story would be submitted for
his approval, but he did not request any
changes. The magazine declined to comment
further Saturday.
But that is
wrong.
This is the actual Rolling Stones lawyerish
wording:
Disclosure: Some names have had
to be changed,
locations not named, and an understanding was
brokered with the subject that
this piece would be submitted for the
subject’s approval before publication.
The subject did not ask for any
changes.
How come
"the subject" has no name? Is it really El Chapo aka
Mr. Guzmán or is it some three letter agency?
Marcy
Wheeler aka Emptywheel
also thinks that the story has a smell and that
it seems that Penn was used, likely knowingly, by
some agency to get El Chapo.
That is why
the story has some of the weird angels Marcy finds.
That the NYT hangs this piece of another magazine so
high is part of the cover up of the DEA's Penn
operation.
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