Someone who should really check in on this story is list member John Carman. As a heroic former Customs Agent who has suffered just about every form of whistleblower harassment imaginable, John first told me about the Hank family when I met him in 1997. His comments would be welcomed on this. My read is that the Hank family is threatened on many fronts. Having aligned themselves with the Clinton Administration they are sitting a precarious perch if a second Bush Administration comes into being. For the last eight years, while some prominent Mexican dealers have fallen, the Hanks have been a virtual submarine. As the drug trade has shifted under Clinton's protection to the Bahamas the Hanks have apparently also held market share. I have no doubt that they are supporting Al Gore. I think that surely they remember what happened to the Medellin Cartel when George Bush, the elder, had had enough of them. Mike Ruppert Publisher/Editor "From The Wilderness" www.copvcia.com www.suppressedwriters.com -----Original Message----- From: Al Giordano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: ohio professor accused of leaking secret government report on Mexican drug famil This lawsuit by the Hank empire against a college professor is meant to silence the press in general. The lawsuit does not allege that the leaked documents were forged or false: they involved a joint report of the DEA-FBI-Customs-CIA-and-Interpol with grave allegations about the Hank family in drug trafficking and money laundering. Hank hired narco-lobbyist Warren Rudman, former senator from New Hampshire, to represent him. Rudman also serves on an intelligence advisory committee for the White House: he chairs that committee. Thus, he has a conflict of interest representing the Hanks, and ought to be prosecuted by the Justice Department for representing foreign financial powers while serving as a top intelligence advisor. In place of prosecuting Rudman, DOJ is protecting him. Rudman extracted a letter from Janet Reno saying that the documents in question do not reflect the official US view. Interestingly, Reno's statement did not counter or deny the information in the documents. The NY Times (house organ for those with impunity) did not mention that this is the SECOND lawsuit by the Hank empire to try and silence the press. Rudman has sued a tiny California spanish-language weekly, El Andar, for publishing parts of those documents. I have been trying to contact El Andar and its editor. If anybody has a phone number or email for El Andar, please send it along. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Bank has dragged Laredo National Bank and Carlos Hank Rohn Jr. into court: the Fed wants to revoke their licenses to practice banking in the states, alleging that the bank was purchased with $30 million laundered through the Virgin Islands and that the bankers lied about the source of money: The Fed alleges that the key bankers are "untrustworthy" and thus should not be allowed to operate a US bank. The Hanks aren't suing the Fed. Instead they go after a small weekly newspaper and a state college professor who don't have the money to defend themselves. And Rudman is complicit in this abuse of the court system. Al Giordano publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGISSRZX0CC.html > > Aug 17, 2000 - 05:40 PM > > > Ohio Professor Accused of Leaking Secret Government Report > The Associated Press > > > > CLEVELAND (AP) - A lawsuit accuses a Cleveland State University professor of > leaking a secret government report on drug trafficking allegations against > one of Mexico's most prominent families. > The federal suit, filed this week in Cleveland, says Donald Schulz, chairman > of CSU's political science department, gave the draft of the report written > by the National Drug Intelligence Center to newspaper reporters and > congressional staffers. > > The leak jeopardized U.S.-Mexico relations and ruined the reputation of > Carlos Hank Rhon and his family, the suit charges. > > Schulz has denied leaking the document and referred questions to his > attorney, James West, of Harrisburg, Pa., who said Thursday that he had no > comment. > > The lawsuit was filed by Laredo National Bank of Laredo, Texas. The lawsuit > seeks unspecified monetary damages and to clear the names of the bank and > Hank, who has been chairman of the independent bank holding company for the > past decade. His father is a former Mexican Cabinet minister. > > Gary Jacobs, the bank's chief executive officer, said the bank obtained > documents through the Freedom of Information Act to confirm a leak had > occurred. > > "It's not what we think happened, it's proven," Jacobs said Thursday. > > The report accused the Hank family of being drug kingpins who laundered money > through the Laredo bank. > > According to a June 1999 article in The Washington Post, the report said the > family "poses a significant criminal threat to the United States," adding, > "Its multibillion-dollar criminal and business empire, developed over several > decades, reaches throughout Mexico and into the United States." > > The report was prepared by NDIC, a strategic drug intelligence center under > the Justice Department and based in Johnstown, Pa. > > The lawsuit alleges that in 1999, NDIC supervisor Donald Huffman gave the > report to Schulz, who was writing a book on cocaine and politics in Mexico. > At the time, Schulz was an instructor at the United States Army War College > in Carlisle, Pa. > > A note accompanied the report that said: "Please do not disseminate this to > anyone without our approval," according to the lawsuit. > > Huffman has repeatedly denied involvement in the leak. Mike Horn, NDIC > director, said Thursday that Huffman was allowed to resign in November after > admitting in an administrative hearing that the report had been leaked. > > Huffman could not be reached. There was no phone listing in his name in > Johnstown, and Horn did not know how he could be contacted. > > According to the lawsuit, Schulz made copies and passed them out to several > newspaper reporters. The timing of the leaks, the lawsuit said, were > "strategically engineered." > > Congress at the time was debating the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation > Act, which later became law. It allows the government to freeze bank accounts > and other assets of people it labels significant drug traffickers. --------------------------------------------------------------------<e|- <FONT COLOR="#000099">Best friends, most artistic, class clown Find 'em here: </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/8014/6/_/475667/_/966616502/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> --------------------------------------------------------------------|e>-
