he kind of smiled and he gestured to one of his aides and the aide had a briefcase and noriega looks through it and pulls out a folder and a letter and he handed it to me and the letter is on the letterhead of the drug enforcement administration and it says dear general noriega, we want to thank you so much for all the help you've given us in controlling the drug traffic in the caribbeanbasin , signed john locke, director of the drug and enforcement administration. we all knew noriega was a drug traffic or the dea certainly knew but he had a great game going, he was working for one cartel and he would find out about it and call the dea and they were able be able to boast of a great big bust and noriega was funneling large amounts of cocaine the following i'm sure of the dea through other channels. also in the 1980s as i remember sitting in nicaragua where i was living that there were reports that the sandinistas were financing their war in part by shipping cocaine and that the contras were doing the same thing we didn't have the detailed information to speculate or to report on that

so how do you respond to the reports cracks he smiled and gestured at his aid who had a briefcase noriega pulled it out and it's a letter and hands it to me it is a letter on the letterhead of the dea and says dear general noriega thank you so much for all the help you have given us in controlling the drug traffic in the caribbean basin signed director of dea. now if we all knew he was a drug traffic or the dea newbie he had a great game he was working for one cartel and when the other cartel would use panama he would find out and call the dea that they would do a best. in the one - - doing a drug bust and now he had cocaine with full knowledge of the dea through other channels. also through the eighties i remember sitting in nicaragua that the sandinistas were financing their war in part by shipping cocaine and the contras were doing the same we didn't have the detailed information to report but would we spoke among ourselves the answer was how could they not cracks is a poor country for you have a fantastic market with piles of money on a plane flight so i have no doubt that was a subst

eugene worked on my car when he was on noriega. when he moved to judah, i only went there a little bit. unfortunately, we need higher density. i think home sf it was thoughtful. this is our program. this is not something that the state instituted on us or the federal government instituted on us. this is something that our legislators worked from your district and everyone else's district. so they put this together. at which point, six units i think would be a waste of -- for that lot. so i know everyone is passionate about it, because it's in our neighborhood, i get it. but this city needs a little more density to ease the pains. we just had 200 people last week, the sheriffs had to come last week because the people were yelling an saying bad things. because this was another project in the mission that is 214 units. you guys have been very respectful. thank you for that. but, unfortunately, i don't think the planning commission erred in their decision in granting this authorized use -- right? yeah. unless there is further discussio

thinks the one on -- this is the one on judah, one on noriega street, one in construction. they took the cap off and let rain water, 22 inches, fall on the site before they took the tanks out. this is another one on laughton. and $8 million home sf project. commissioners were concerned that the financing would fall through. it did. it's coming back as home sf project. the site evaluations for that particular project are about six years old. there has been continuously operating gas station on the site since then. community members express concerns regarding adverse environmental impacts at the planning commission hearing. and you have the minutes. i hope you have taken a look at the minutes. if you have not, please do so. the members of the public indicated, myself included, indicated we had concerns. the planning commission said they could not do anything about the concerns. the toxicity of the ground water, the potential for the sinkhole on the street, the neighbors concern about height bulk massing, potential impacts on the neighborhood. none of those were considered. wh

or noriega or you know having spent his honeymoon downing after leaving a sauna in russia and extolling the virtues of the soviet union in ways that frankly most americans don't much agree with that's a problem for people who think that donald trump is a danger to the future of the united states so it's not just a question of such a ship or narrowing things it's making 100 percent sure we have a nominee who is electable and the concern is once the public realizes what bernie sanders has said in the past he's an unreconstructed socialist in the united states that's generally not a calling card a done. regardless of your views on castro on cuba or on socialism even i mean surely like we said bunny saw a saying this thing at a time when the democratic party's already split it's the vaunted it's going through perhaps a bit of a p.r. it means here across this i mean this is a very bad decision isn't it. well look i think sanders to me shows his integrity here look he's been saying this for years that there's videotapes of him saying these things about cuba and fidel castro in the soviet unio

he's praising noriega, he's praising the sand on eastas. this is not outside of the normal ideology platform. so it doesn't land with a boom as something hugely shocking when voters already have been exposed to bernie sanders coming from this ideology strain. what is surprising is, hey, democrats want to win florida. they want to keep those purple states, keep the trump states that flipped. >> let me say this. you found it on the internet. why didn't the bloomberg or the biden campaign find it on the internet three months ago when they could have made this argument. let me show you the ad biden is running. person with the most on the line in the upcoming primary. here it is. >> when we rally together to defend our president sand all of the progress he made, they had his back. he had his back. and you have his back. but back in washington there was one guy with another plan. >> i think it would be a good idea if president obama faced primary opposition. >> when it comes to building on president obama's legacy, bernie sanders just can't be tr

eugene worked on my car when he was on noriega. when he moved to judah, i only went there a little bit. unfortunately, we need higher density. i think home sf it was thoughtful. this is our program. this is not something that the state instituted on us or the federal government instituted on us. this is something that our legislators worked from your district and everyone else's district. so they put this together. at which point, six units i think would be a waste of -- for that lot. so i know everyone is passionate about it, because it's in our neighborhood, i get it. but this city needs a little more density to ease the pains. we just had 200 people last week, the sheriffs had to come last week because the people were yelling an saying bad things. because this was another project in the mission that is 214 units. you guys have been very respectful. thank you for that. but, unfortunately, i don't think the planning commission erred in their decision in granting this authorized use -- right? yeah. unless there is further discussio

we're talking about noriega's panama. we are talking about, you know, putin's russia. we are talking about something that dictatorial regimes do. so again, if the story is true, it is time for mr. maguire to come forward and say here is what happened. >> who are you allowed to discuss that meeting with? can you discuss it with members of the senate intelligence committee? can you discuss it with obviously other members of your own committee? but then more importantly, could you, if you decide -- if you wanted to, just go discuss it with someone in the administration? for example, the president of the united states as "the washington post" is reporting devin nunes did. "washington post" is reporting that devin nunes took the information from that meeting and went straight to the president of the united states. is that legal? >> that's a really good question. we all sign affidavits that say we will not disclose classified information to somebody who is not authorized to receive it, so yes, i can discuss that with other people who are authorized to receive it. if mr. nune

the run from manuel noriega in panama.n. i was astonished to read that the german spy agency let the operation in the 90s that the cia kept on going until 2018. that set out to me simply because that surveillance scandal involving us national security agency did not seem national security agency did not seem to concern the cia, that they might get caught? this is one of the more interesting things that we learned in our reporting around this was how this operation nearly sort of fell apart when the two partners leveraged at one point they kept going until very recently. this was a reporting project and in the mid to early 905 amid the cold war, the berlin wall comes down and germans become very concerned about exposure in the potential political blowback if it were reveal about their involvement in the operation so they asked to be let out at that. they looked for an exit and essentially the cia buys out the german shares and keeps going for another two decades. encryption has moved on from machines that we were looking at