by
Shannon K. O'Neil
October 29, 2008
Mexico’s attorney general said yesterday that employees of his elite force to combat organized crime, SIEDO, passed confidential information to the Beltran-Leyva cartel in what has been described as the “worst case of infiltration of law enforcement by drug cartels in 10 years.” This is what I had to say about this for PBS’s new show WorldFocus last night.
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