Anti Federalist
04-05-2011, 09:31 PM
Amazing article from a lawyer defending entrapped citizens from a case in 1998 where government allowed 5 million "doses" of meth out on the streets.
Cooking Meth: How Government Manufactured a Drug Epidemic
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/roots6.1.1.html
Between 2003 and 2004, a Trinity County, California grand jury launched an investigation into the conduct of the BNE officers in the Spruth and other cases. The grand jury found that that BNE agents had given inaccurate testimony in the 1998 hearing and that more than five million doses of methamphetamine were released to the public by the undercover agents. The grand jury concluded that the California BNE had adopted a policy of using reverse sting chemical distributions to raise cash for BNE off-budget accounts, rather than to reduce methamphetamine sales. After hearing hundreds of hours of testimony, the Trinity County grand jurors unanimously voted to indict 32 law enforcement officers involved in the reverse stings. The State Attorney General refused to prosecute the 32 agents, however. (In response to the government’s refusal to prosecute the agents, the courageous Trinity County grand jurors courageously approved a second indictment naming then-California-Attorney-General Dan Lundgren (now a U.S. Congressman) among the defendants; again, no California state prosecutor would proceed with the indictment.)
Cooking Meth: How Government Manufactured a Drug Epidemic
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/roots6.1.1.html
Between 2003 and 2004, a Trinity County, California grand jury launched an investigation into the conduct of the BNE officers in the Spruth and other cases. The grand jury found that that BNE agents had given inaccurate testimony in the 1998 hearing and that more than five million doses of methamphetamine were released to the public by the undercover agents. The grand jury concluded that the California BNE had adopted a policy of using reverse sting chemical distributions to raise cash for BNE off-budget accounts, rather than to reduce methamphetamine sales. After hearing hundreds of hours of testimony, the Trinity County grand jurors unanimously voted to indict 32 law enforcement officers involved in the reverse stings. The State Attorney General refused to prosecute the 32 agents, however. (In response to the government’s refusal to prosecute the agents, the courageous Trinity County grand jurors courageously approved a second indictment naming then-California-Attorney-General Dan Lundgren (now a U.S. Congressman) among the defendants; again, no California state prosecutor would proceed with the indictment.)