Part 1: Sting operations and entrapment

Today I want to talk about sting operations because it ties in with the intelligence community's agenda and their control over the mainstream media. Google states that "A Sting Operation is an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime by means of deception. The word sting derives its origin from American usage to mean a police undercover operation designed to ensnare criminals." I also want to talk about how sting operations are similar to entrapment.

An example of a sting operation is the bait Car program but that's not what I would call a sting. Wikipedia states that sting operations are illegal in some countries like the Philippines, where it is illegal for law enforcers to pose as drug dealers to apprehend buyers of illegal drugs. That's kind of backwards. Normally an under cover cop would pose as a buyer to catch a drug dealer. Posing as a drug dealer to catch a buyer is pretty close to entrapment.

A good example of entrapment is the Surrey pressure cooker fraud. The police set up two addicts. Without the police's involvement there was no means or motive to commit the crime. That's entrapment. If a suspect had no motive to commit a crime and didn't have the ability to do it and the police come along and help them commit a crime they would not have been able to do or had a desire to do, that's entrapment.

In Jon and Anna's case they said if you don't do this we'll kill you and your family. It's like the FBI stings we saw where the FBI would foil a FBI terrorist plot they created. They'd basically walk up to a drug addict, put an rpg in his hand and say we'll give you a brand new Mercedes if you fire this rpg at that airplane. That's entrapment. The drug addict had no access to a rpg if the FBI hadn't given them one. The drug addict had no desire to target a plane without the FBI. The FBI bribed him to do it. If they hadn't bribed him they would't have done it.

Now let's dial it back and look at the David Giles bust in Kelowna. Undercover police pretended to be drug dealers from Panama. They went up to Skelator and said we can get you several kilos of cocaine each month. Are you interested. He said yeah. He was a known drug dealer importing cocaine into Canada but what if he wasn't? We've seen the intelligence community do a lot of shady things. A lot of illegal things. They would rationalize their illegal conduct with the end justifies the means argument. Only they lied about their objective.

Two examples. Judge Bonner caught the CIA bringing a ton of cocaine into Florida on a plane when he was head of the DEA. When he confronted them the CIA did what they always do, they lied. They said no we didn't. Then when Judge Bonner went on 60 minutes and documented everything they were force to admit it, then they lied again. They said OK we did it but it was an accident. It was a sting operation. We were trying to bust drug dealers who would distribute it.

But that was a lie because they made no attempt to track the cocaine after it came into the US. Just like Operation Fast and Furious. The CIA convinced the ATF to sell the Mexican cartel guns and bring back tons of cocaine into the US as payment. When a US border agent was killed with one of those guns, the CIA and the ATF lied. They said it was a sting operation but it wasn't. They made no attempt to track the guns after they entered Mexico and they didn't track where the cocaine went after it entered the US. As Gary Webb pointed out, the CIA has a long history of drug trafficking. Iran contra never stopped.