DEA dissenter Sandy Gonzalez reveals the drug war's complicity in torture and...


	DEA dissenter Sandy Gonzalez reveals the drug war's complicity in torture and...

sincitykitty

4-27-2009 1:53 PM

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After a few years in El Paso, Gonzalez became the central whistle-blower in the horrifying “House of Death” case, in which agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were accused of looking the other way while one of their drug informants helped torture and murder at least a dozen people in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

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