WWW,
February 2011 - According to documents
recently released by Wikileaks, the American
DEA is conducting what they call
"controlled drugs deliveries"
within the country of the Netherlands. The
Americans do this without official
permission, which they call
"unofficial" but could better be
called "illegal". The Babylon
Observer watches an item from Dutch public
TV and in accordance with Fair Use laws,
shares his observation...
In the leaked documents, the
American ambassador in the Netherlands is
complaining how the Dutch Justice department
does not want to go into official DEA
requests to conduct these "controlled
deliveries of drugs". Apparently things
changed in the end of 2005, because in the
first half of 2006, there were already six
of such deliveries conducted on Dutch soil
and with cooperation of the Dutch police.
What changed?
A political situation, perhaps... Or
something more sinister...
However, the Wikileaks show that the
Americans are now very pleased because they
found a way to bypass the Dutch Justice
department by conducting so-called
"police to police information",
that is: information from one police unit to
another.
As a professor in criminology, very much
esteemed in the Netherlands, this is either
done illegally by the police who doesn't
inform the justice department or it is done
illegally by the Justice department itself,
because no official request is done in
either case.