"6 Mexican agents accused of tipping off traffickers" by Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times | August 14, 2008
MEXICO CITY - Six members of the Mexican government's top anticrime unit have been arrested on suspicion of leaking information to drug traffickers, officials said yesterday.
SIEDO, which investigates drug and arms smuggling, is well known and generally trusted by US law-enforcement agencies. Confirmation that SIEDO was infiltrated by drug traffickers would be a black eye for the 400-member agency and for President Felipe Calderón's 20-month-old offensive against organized crime.
Mexico is awaiting $400 million in US crime-fighting aid as the first installment in what the nations describe as a stepped-up joint push to combat the flow of illegal drugs into the United States."
What, after both went to so much trouble to set it up?
And irony of ironies, the government cleans up on both ends, don't they?
