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...fugitive billionaire Marc Rich ignited the firestorm - but inside the Justice Department, career prosecutors are also burning over the clemency grant for Manhattan lawyer Harvey Weinig, sentenced in 1996 to 11 years in prison for facilitating an extortion-kidnapping scheme and helping launder at least $19 million for the Cali cocaine cartel. In Weinig's case, Clinton didn't bypass the Department of Justice - he defied...
...Last week, White, reportedly fuming, released transcripts of secret government tapes that recorded Weinig's scheme to embezzle $2.4 million from the Cali drug lords. They appear damning, and evidence of, if not uncommon stupidity, at least an uncommon lack of regard for the vengeance of drug kingpins...
...drawback of hearing a song come together during mixing is having to listen to that song three hundred times in a four-hour period. The novelty of a melody begins to wear thin: "Coast of Cali..." Cali...Cali. I started to lose perspective on songs that felt full of perspective when I wrote them. "New" hit albums, as seen in the public eye, are more accurately known by their bands as "year-and-a-half-in-the-making-painstaking-hoping-and-praying" hit albums...
Clinton went south to meet with President Andres Pastrana and formally launch a controversial $1.3 billion military aid package to help the Colombian government battle an unholy alliance of drug lords and Marxist guerrillas. As a welcoming gesture, the rebels bombed three banks in Cali and blew up a section of coastal highway the day before Clinton arrived, while students protesting the US aid occupied a building in the capital, Bogota. Most of the violence in the country - where the murder rate is said to be higher than the auto theft rate - is far from the relatively tranquil resort town...
What happened? Weren't we supposed to be winning the drug war in Latin America? The infamous Medellin and Cali cartels were busted in the mid-1990s. And since 1995, successful eradication programs have reduced coca cultivation by two-thirds in Peru and by more than half in Bolivia...