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9/11 happened,
and the United States

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invaded one of the largest
opium producers in the world.

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George W. Bush: These terrorists
must be pursued, defeated,

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and brought to justice.

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The net effect
of the PATRIOT Act

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is that it refueled
the War on Drugs.

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I helped murder
families in Columbia.

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We were willing
to do whatever it took.

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If that meant supporting
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that was not
of tantamount concern.

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Mexican cops would
go out and carry out a hit,

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and then they'll come back
a couple hours later

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and investigate the murder
they just committed.

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They lied to us
about this plant.

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Cloaked in many innocent...

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It's an invitation
to your own murder.

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You smoked it and you
suddenly said, "Wait a minute.

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This stuff isn't so bad."

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Got some legal weed!

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They're working with one cartel

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to take out another cartel.

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We're going to be ruthless
in that fight.

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We're all concerned
about cocaine and heroin.

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We're legally killing you
and we're getting away with it.

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What I think
is really interesting

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that we've seen happen
in the last 15 or 20 years

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is that this so-called
War on Drugs

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and the so-called War on Terror
have collided.

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It's been nearly 30 years

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since Richard Nixon
declared the War on Drugs.

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But nearly 16 million Americans

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are regularly getting high on
illegal narcotics each month.

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George W. Bush: Illegal drugs

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are the enemies
of ambition and hope.

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And I intend to do
something about them.

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"Smiled."

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-What word?
-"Smiled."

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Yes, "smiled."

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Read these words the fast way.
Get ready.

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"Smiled."

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Yes, "smiled."
Get ready.

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-"More."
-Yes, "more." Get ready.

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-"Light."
-Yes, "light." Get ready.

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-"Must."
-Yes, "must."

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Boys and girls,
pick your reader up.

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60 on page 153.

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Oh. Oh, my God!

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-Give me that.
-Oh, my God.

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George W. Bush: On my orders,
the United States military

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has begun strikes

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against Al-Qaeda
terrorist training camps

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and military installations

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of the Taliban regime
in Afghanistan.

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America had just suffered
this catastrophic loss.

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The CIA took it as
an intelligence failure

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and took the war in Afghanistan
as -- That was their baby.

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There was incredible
pressure on the CIA

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to find and capture bin Laden.

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That was the CIA's mission,

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and -- and they wanted
to do it right.

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Two American
Hercules C-130 aircraft

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take off from an air base
in Uzbekistan.

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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Green light.

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The CIA's just dropped
19 half-ton crates

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full of weapons and supplies.

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-Clear.
-It's clear.

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On the ground
to receive the drop --

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a CIA-backed insurgent army...

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...led by this man...

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Hamid Karzai, Western educated,

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sworn enemy of the Taliban.

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In the 1980s,
Karzai joined the CIA-backed war

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against Soviet invaders,

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fighting alongside fellow
mujahideen Osama bin Laden.

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He's been a CIA asset
ever since.

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The CIA wanted to get
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someone that we could work with,

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someone that we knew
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the aims of the United States.

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And that guy was Hamid Karzai.

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Karzai and his men
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through Taliban-controlled
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in order to seize power.

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But on a mountain pass,
they're ambushed.

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They're ambushed, and the agency

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doesn't know if Karzai
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Okay, then,
what's the coordinates?

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Man #2:
North 1506, west 8319.

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At least 10 people.

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Man #3: Signal down.
We've lost visual.

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Signal down.
We've lost visual.

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Are you there?
Do you copy? Do you copy?

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Karzai, are you there?

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Please respond.

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Karzai's men have prevailed.

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Hamid Karzai has survived

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one of the greatest
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and the American-led coalition
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as Afghanistan's interim leader.

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We got our guy in power.

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We got the lesser
of all the evils in power.

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As he secures his grip on power,

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one of his first acts
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is to give control of
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to his brother,
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He's one of Afghanistan's

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best-connected
heroin traffickers.

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Now, thanks to his brother,
he's on the CIA payroll.

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Afghanistan produces
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of the world's heroin supply --

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by some estimates,
upwards of 90%.

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Located at the center

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of the so-called
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there's a saying here --

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"Whoever controls the poppy
controls the country."

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We were willing to do
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If that meant turning
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or even implicitly supporting
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that was really not
of tantamount concern.

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At a checkpoint in Kandahar,

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Afghan security forces
are on high alert for car bombs.

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But when they stop a truck
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...they find a huge stash
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Before the checkpoint commander
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he receives a call.

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It's the brother
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I think that the Karzai
family put one son in politics,

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they put one son in business,
they put one son in a mosque.

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And this is how you
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all the elements of state.

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And the notion that, um,

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those brothers aren't
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for the benefit of the family
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Ahmed Wali Karzai,

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newly appointed ruler
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orders the truck
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Ahmed Wali Karzai,

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the role he played
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was to provide protection,

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to provide political cover
for major drug traffickers.

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He was the guy that made sure
those trucks got through.

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The CIA thinks that
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the important war,
the War on Terror.

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We're the ones keeping
Americans safe.

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And this War on Drugs,
it's a losing battle

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that we don't want
to concern ourselves with.

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As Afghan heroin
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back at home,
the Bush administration

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pushes through
a new anti-terror law

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that will change the face
of the domestic War on Drugs.

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Ladies and gentlemen,

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the President
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accompanied by
the Vice President.

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The changes, effective today,
will help counter a threat

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like no other our nation
has ever faced.

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We've seen the enemy
and the murder

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of thousands of innocent,
unsuspecting people.

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They recognize no barrier
of morality.

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They have no conscience.

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These terrorists
must be pursued.

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They must be defeated.

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And they must be
brought to justice.

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It is now my honor
to sign into law

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the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001.

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The PATRIOT Act passed
98 in favor,

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one Senator against, in the name
of fighting terrorism.

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Actually, some of its
main provisions

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are more often used
for drug prosecutions.

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Police will now
be able to search and seize

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without probable cause and even
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Over the coming years,
the U.S. government will issue

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thousands of so-called
sneak-and-peek warrants.

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Less than 1% will
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and over 75% will be for drugs.

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The net effect, really,
of -- of the PATRIOT Act

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and the War on Terror is that
it refueled the War on Drugs.

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Super Bowl XXXVI.

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86 million Americans watch
the Patriots battle the Rams.

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It's the most-watched
TV event of the year

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and the perfect opportunity
for the government to premiere

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a new anti-drug ad campaign.

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I helped murder
families in Colombia.

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It was just innocent fun.

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I helped kidnap people's dads.

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Hey, some harmless fun.

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I helped kids learn how to kill.

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I was just having
some fun, you know.

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During the first
Super Bowl after 9/11,

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we have this ad come out
that shows the desperation

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of the mentality
behind the War on Terror --

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that if you use drugs,

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you're not hurting yourself,
you're helping terrorists.

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I helped the bomber
get a fake passport.

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All the kids do it.

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I helped kill a judge.

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I helped blow up buildings.

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The irony of this is that
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the U.S. government
has been entrenched

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and at least
peripherally involved

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with the drug trade
to a much greater degree

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than any teenager
experimenting with drugs

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in the United States
is ever going to be.

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While America is preoccupied

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with a drug-fueled
War on Terror...

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...right at our doorstep,
another drug war

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is about to create
the most powerful

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and violent cartels
the world has ever known.

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31 years after America
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the U.S. now consumes as much
as 40% of the world's cocaine

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and spends approximately
$25 billion on marijuana.

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Being close to
the world's biggest consumer

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of illegal drugs
has been a good thing

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for the Mexican cartels --
not for Mexico itself,

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but for its criminal
organizations, this is a gift.

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A decade after NAFTA
helped turn Mexico

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into the key transshipment point

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for the North American
drug trade,

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four major Mexican cartels

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battle for control
of the border.

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The most dominant
is the Juárez Cartel,

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once led by
Amado Carrillo Fuentes.

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His mysterious death
led to a power struggle

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for the most valuable turf
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the critical border town
Ciudad Juárez,

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directly across from El Paso.

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When you dig into it
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that's when you started seeing
how it really worked.

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And there was a lot of, uh,
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pretty ugly stuff going on.

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U.S. law enforcement

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are about to infiltrate
the cartel,

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blurring the lines
between good guys and bad.

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Crossing the bridge
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is a man
on the inside of it all.

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Guillermo Ramirez Peyro,
also known as "Lalo,"

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a former
Mexican highway patrolman

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turned Juárez Cartel lieutenant.

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He knew that sooner or later,

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he will be arrested or killed.

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Lalo heads to a U.S. Customs
and Border Patrol office

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to offer his services
as an informant.

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Lalo believed, as an informant,

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that he will have
some protection

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by the federal U.S. government.

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I understand
you have some information.

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Can you protect me?

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Depends.

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After extensive
vetting, Lalo begins to talk.

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What do you know
about the cartel?

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The cops in Mexico
are the cartel, Señor.

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We're listening.

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I was one of them.

254
00:16:45,091 --> 00:16:46,571
He makes a shocking claim --

255
00:16:46,614 --> 00:16:49,364
Numerous Mexican state
police officers

256
00:16:49,399 --> 00:16:52,049
are also working
for the Juárez Cartel.

257
00:16:52,098 --> 00:16:54,268
But I need assurances.

258
00:16:54,317 --> 00:16:58,627
Lalo, he's typical of so many
of these "rats."

259
00:16:58,669 --> 00:17:00,669
It's a matter of survival.

260
00:17:00,715 --> 00:17:03,805
It's a matter of playing
both ends towards the middle

261
00:17:03,848 --> 00:17:05,588
to protect yourself.

262
00:17:05,633 --> 00:17:08,203
It's a very dangerous world
and a very violent world.

263
00:17:11,639 --> 00:17:13,819
U.S. Customs agents
register Lalo

264
00:17:13,858 --> 00:17:16,248
as informant number 913

265
00:17:16,296 --> 00:17:19,856
and put him to work
undercover inside the cartel.

266
00:17:30,136 --> 00:17:32,486
Lalo's heading
to a cartel safe house

267
00:17:32,529 --> 00:17:36,929
for a meeting with a small-time
drug smuggler, Fernando Reyes.

268
00:17:42,887 --> 00:17:45,847
Reyes is looking for help moving
a half-ton of marijuana

269
00:17:45,890 --> 00:17:47,200
across the border.

270
00:17:49,155 --> 00:17:51,365
But the cartel leaders
are not happy

271
00:17:51,418 --> 00:17:54,458
Reyes is operating
on their turf.

272
00:17:54,508 --> 00:17:57,638
While Lalo pretends
to facilitate the deal,

273
00:17:57,685 --> 00:18:02,595
two Juárez cops
on the cartel payroll...

274
00:18:02,646 --> 00:18:06,256
emerge from another room.

275
00:18:24,451 --> 00:18:26,371
They ripped off a cord
from a lamp

276
00:18:26,409 --> 00:18:27,539
and they're trying
to choke him to death.

277
00:18:27,584 --> 00:18:29,374
This guy's just not dying.

278
00:18:29,412 --> 00:18:30,542
And they said,
"We need your help."

279
00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:44,909
Finally killed him by hitting
him on the back of the head

280
00:18:44,949 --> 00:18:46,559
and broke his neck.

281
00:18:58,267 --> 00:19:01,007
Lalo has recorded
the entire murder

282
00:19:01,052 --> 00:19:04,842
and turns it over to his Customs
and Border Control handlers.

283
00:19:04,882 --> 00:19:07,582
There were rumors
about Mexican law enforcement.

284
00:19:07,624 --> 00:19:09,934
You know, people assume
that they were corrupt.

285
00:19:09,974 --> 00:19:13,204
But he was really the first guy
to bring out just how it worked.

286
00:19:15,328 --> 00:19:19,108
The Mexican government
and the Mexican law enforcement

287
00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:20,808
werepart of the cartel.

288
00:19:22,683 --> 00:19:25,433
There's stories that'll
just blow your mind.

289
00:19:25,468 --> 00:19:28,688
Mexican cops would go out
and carry out a hit.

290
00:19:30,821 --> 00:19:32,261
And then they'll come back

291
00:19:32,301 --> 00:19:33,821
in a police uniform
a couple hours later

292
00:19:33,868 --> 00:19:35,478
and investigate the murder
they just committed.

293
00:19:35,522 --> 00:19:37,222
That's how it worked.

294
00:19:37,263 --> 00:19:39,663
They call it the color of law,
right?

295
00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:41,350
When are you cartel?

296
00:19:41,397 --> 00:19:44,267
When are you law enforcement?

297
00:19:44,313 --> 00:19:45,883
There is no line, really.

298
00:19:45,923 --> 00:19:48,453
It's all one fluid thing.

299
00:19:48,491 --> 00:19:51,451
In Mexico, less than 1%
of serious crimes

300
00:19:51,494 --> 00:19:53,064
end up in any kind
of conviction.

301
00:19:54,889 --> 00:19:56,719
When the U.S. Customs
agents tell their bosses

302
00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,550
in Washington about the murder,

303
00:19:58,588 --> 00:20:04,158
they receive a directive --
continue working with Lalo.

304
00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:06,213
They had so much
invested in this case.

305
00:20:06,248 --> 00:20:08,078
They were trying to get
after the big fish

306
00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,909
in the Juárez Cartel,
and so he went back.

307
00:20:10,948 --> 00:20:13,208
And he participated
in subsequent murders.

308
00:20:13,255 --> 00:20:14,815
He even told 'em ahead of time

309
00:20:14,865 --> 00:20:16,035
that he was opening up
the house,

310
00:20:16,084 --> 00:20:17,874
he was gonna have a barbecue,

311
00:20:17,912 --> 00:20:19,832
and they would bring
someone over

312
00:20:19,870 --> 00:20:22,960
and torture
and murder 'em there.

313
00:20:23,004 --> 00:20:26,274
They were making deals
with the devil,

314
00:20:26,312 --> 00:20:31,712
because Lalo was one of
the devils of the Juárez Cartel.

315
00:20:31,752 --> 00:20:33,712
He was a blood killer.

316
00:20:38,193 --> 00:20:43,763
This guy was actually
given a license to kill.

317
00:20:43,807 --> 00:20:46,457
You don't want to believe

318
00:20:46,506 --> 00:20:51,816
that you have American
law enforcement involved.

319
00:20:51,859 --> 00:20:56,119
January 2004,
the Mexican military move in

320
00:20:56,167 --> 00:21:00,257
on the house where
Fernando Reyes was killed.

321
00:21:00,302 --> 00:21:03,572
They find 12 bodies
buried in the backyard,

322
00:21:03,610 --> 00:21:05,260
including Reyes.

323
00:21:08,745 --> 00:21:12,835
The press will call it
the "House of Death."

324
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,410
The House of Death
was the first evidence

325
00:21:16,449 --> 00:21:21,449
how violent was
the drug business in Mexico,

326
00:21:21,497 --> 00:21:25,277
how deeply the Mexican police,
the Mexican government,

327
00:21:25,327 --> 00:21:31,677
and some U.S. federal agencies
were involved.

328
00:21:31,725 --> 00:21:35,635
This is a really tragic
and a really dark foretelling

329
00:21:35,685 --> 00:21:39,725
of what we would start to see
with the drug war later on.

330
00:21:39,776 --> 00:21:42,866
You think of mass graves,
and you think of genocide

331
00:21:42,910 --> 00:21:45,870
in Eastern Europe,
in, uh -- in Southeast Asia,

332
00:21:45,913 --> 00:21:47,093
and all of a sudden
this is happening

333
00:21:47,131 --> 00:21:48,741
just south of our border.

334
00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:03,058
Lalo will escape
all prosecution.

335
00:22:03,104 --> 00:22:06,594
The Juárez Cartel
will soon face an enemy

336
00:22:06,629 --> 00:22:09,939
far more ruthless than the U.S.
or Mexican governments --

337
00:22:09,980 --> 00:22:12,070
the man who will become
the most notorious

338
00:22:12,113 --> 00:22:19,293
drug trafficker
in the Western Hemisphere.

339
00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:22,729
El Chapo.

340
00:22:36,877 --> 00:22:38,527
200 Mexican soldiers

341
00:22:38,574 --> 00:22:43,144
are on their way to make
a high-profile arrest.

342
00:22:43,187 --> 00:22:45,147
They intend to nab
an elusive drug lord

343
00:22:45,189 --> 00:22:46,969
popular with the locals.

344
00:22:50,412 --> 00:22:53,152
So popular, they've already
tipped him off.

345
00:22:56,853 --> 00:22:58,333
And he's long gone.

346
00:23:01,554 --> 00:23:06,044
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, nicknamed
"El Chapo," or "Shorty."

347
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,210
By age 9, he's already got
his start in the drug trade

348
00:23:09,257 --> 00:23:11,867
and then rises to become
the most powerful drug lord

349
00:23:11,912 --> 00:23:13,442
in the Western Hemisphere.

350
00:23:13,479 --> 00:23:16,219
Head of the infamous
Sinaloa Cartel

351
00:23:16,264 --> 00:23:19,354
and known to carry a gold
diamond-encrusted handgun,

352
00:23:19,398 --> 00:23:23,008
his net worth will grow to over
an estimated billion dollars,

353
00:23:23,053 --> 00:23:24,973
earning him a spot
on the Forbeslist

354
00:23:25,012 --> 00:23:26,542
of the world's richest people.

355
00:23:28,276 --> 00:23:30,926
He's not
the stereotypical drug lord

356
00:23:30,974 --> 00:23:32,984
who dresses flashy.

357
00:23:33,020 --> 00:23:35,760
He's a jeans-and-baseball-cap
kind of guy.

358
00:23:38,808 --> 00:23:41,068
He's a very romanticized figure.

359
00:23:41,115 --> 00:23:44,505
In Mexico, you have songs
that are written about him.

360
00:23:44,553 --> 00:23:48,083
You have entire communities
that are rooting for him.

361
00:23:50,690 --> 00:23:52,780
Still unknown to most
of the world

362
00:23:52,822 --> 00:23:54,392
but ready to make his mark,

363
00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:57,443
El Chapo's strategy
is to take out the cartels

364
00:23:57,479 --> 00:24:00,089
that control the eastern
and western border crossings

365
00:24:00,134 --> 00:24:02,014
and build a power base

366
00:24:02,049 --> 00:24:05,709
before taking the geographically
critical Juárez Cartel.

367
00:24:20,328 --> 00:24:23,938
El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel
wants to corner the market

368
00:24:23,984 --> 00:24:26,164
by destroying the competition.

369
00:24:26,203 --> 00:24:29,253
One major competitor --
the Tijuana Cartel,

370
00:24:29,293 --> 00:24:32,383
also known as the
Arellano-Félix Organization.

371
00:24:32,427 --> 00:24:35,297
They control much of the
border crossings to the west,

372
00:24:35,343 --> 00:24:39,003
with a distribution route from
Baja California to San Diego.

373
00:24:39,042 --> 00:24:41,652
Both El Chapo and the DEA

374
00:24:41,697 --> 00:24:45,177
have a common interest
in their demise.

375
00:24:45,222 --> 00:24:50,452
At a certain point, the Tijuana
Cartel became more violent.

376
00:24:56,277 --> 00:24:58,187
People were being
killed left and right.

377
00:24:58,235 --> 00:25:01,325
People were disappearing.

378
00:25:01,369 --> 00:25:04,549
Chapo Guzmán and the Sinaloa
organization that he was growing

379
00:25:04,590 --> 00:25:08,720
was basically at war
with the Tijuana Cartel.

380
00:25:08,768 --> 00:25:10,768
Chapo's organization whacked

381
00:25:10,813 --> 00:25:14,253
one of the Tijuana
organization's top guys.

382
00:25:14,295 --> 00:25:17,425
In return, Chapo's brother
got murdered in prison.

383
00:25:17,472 --> 00:25:19,652
It was like revenge killings --
"You killed one of mine,

384
00:25:19,692 --> 00:25:21,302
I'm going to go kill
one of yours."

385
00:25:28,439 --> 00:25:32,839
A man walks into a DEA
field office in Tijuana, Mexico.

386
00:25:34,576 --> 00:25:38,886
This is Humberto Loya-Castro...

387
00:25:38,928 --> 00:25:43,498
Sinaloa Cartel lawyer
and DEA informant.

388
00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:46,592
He'll meet secretly
with the DEA on 50 occasions,

389
00:25:46,632 --> 00:25:50,332
providing critical information
on drug trafficking

390
00:25:50,374 --> 00:25:54,254
and other organized crime
across Mexico.

391
00:25:54,291 --> 00:25:59,301
The DEA is at the mercy
of their informants.

392
00:25:59,340 --> 00:26:04,000
Chapo's lawyer was using DEA to
do Chapo's dirty work for him.

393
00:26:06,913 --> 00:26:10,003
Castro tells the DEA
he has vital information

394
00:26:10,046 --> 00:26:13,086
about Sinaloa's rival,
the Tijuana Cartel.

395
00:26:42,165 --> 00:26:44,075
The power of these cartels

396
00:26:44,124 --> 00:26:46,174
is not to be reckoned with.

397
00:26:49,172 --> 00:26:51,172
There is no line
that they won't cross.

398
00:26:51,218 --> 00:26:54,788
DEA agents have been
killed in Mexico before.

399
00:26:56,919 --> 00:26:59,659
The DEA acts fast
against the threat,

400
00:26:59,705 --> 00:27:02,135
securing its personnel,

401
00:27:02,185 --> 00:27:03,615
then launches
a preemptive strike

402
00:27:03,665 --> 00:27:05,795
against the Tijuana Cartel.

403
00:27:11,542 --> 00:27:15,332
They're working with one cartel
to take out another cartel.

404
00:27:17,853 --> 00:27:20,733
It's almost like moving
chess pieces around.

405
00:27:24,425 --> 00:27:27,685
The DEA cracks down
on the Tijuana Cartel,

406
00:27:27,733 --> 00:27:31,083
leaving an opening
for their rivals.

407
00:27:31,127 --> 00:27:35,867
The Sinaloa Cartel's now
coming for Tijuana's turf.

408
00:27:37,699 --> 00:27:41,359
And Loya-Castro's information
plays a critical role.

409
00:27:43,574 --> 00:27:45,324
There's certain people
in the drug war.

410
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,139
They play in this gray area.

411
00:27:47,187 --> 00:27:49,537
They're the informants
and the assets and the snitches.

412
00:27:49,580 --> 00:27:51,370
And they can play one side
against the other.

413
00:27:51,408 --> 00:27:54,278
They play in this narrow bridge
that's incredibly dangerous.

414
00:27:56,065 --> 00:27:58,285
They would snitch
on their rivals.

415
00:27:58,328 --> 00:28:01,508
And in exchange, the leadership
of the Sinaloa organization

416
00:28:01,549 --> 00:28:04,199
was provided essential
immunity from prosecution,

417
00:28:04,247 --> 00:28:06,117
and they would be left alone
and allowed to operate.

418
00:28:10,950 --> 00:28:13,870
But to truly dominate
the drug trade,

419
00:28:13,909 --> 00:28:16,429
it will come down to controlling
the entire supply chain

420
00:28:16,477 --> 00:28:18,867
to the streets of America.

421
00:28:18,914 --> 00:28:22,094
So El Chapo sets
his sights on Chicago.

422
00:28:25,486 --> 00:28:29,006
A day's drive from 70%
of the U.S. population,

423
00:28:29,055 --> 00:28:31,315
Chicago's a transportation hub

424
00:28:31,361 --> 00:28:34,101
crossed by seven major
interstate highways

425
00:28:34,147 --> 00:28:37,447
with extensive rail
and air-travel infrastructure.

426
00:28:41,763 --> 00:28:44,553
We saw Chicago being
a larger and larger hub

427
00:28:44,592 --> 00:28:47,552
in order to move drugs into
other parts of the country.

428
00:28:53,819 --> 00:28:58,429
This is Chicago's 22nd ward...

429
00:28:58,475 --> 00:29:00,215
a heavily Hispanic neighborhood

430
00:29:00,260 --> 00:29:03,520
where Mexican cartel members
can blend in.

431
00:29:03,567 --> 00:29:06,697
El Chapo's drawn
to these two brothers.

432
00:29:09,660 --> 00:29:11,580
The Flores twins inherited

433
00:29:11,619 --> 00:29:13,659
the family's
small-time drug business

434
00:29:13,708 --> 00:29:15,578
when they were still
in high school

435
00:29:15,623 --> 00:29:18,803
and grew it to be one of the top
cocaine distributors in Chicago

436
00:29:18,844 --> 00:29:23,764
with an annual income
of $700 million.

437
00:29:23,805 --> 00:29:26,975
Chapo arranges a meeting
at his mountaintop compound

438
00:29:27,026 --> 00:29:29,246
to talk expansion
with the two brothers,

439
00:29:29,289 --> 00:29:32,859
who have deep roots in Mexico.

440
00:29:32,901 --> 00:29:35,641
Trust is only one component
of making the deal.

441
00:29:35,686 --> 00:29:38,556
El Chapo wants to know,
can they deliver?

442
00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:44,350
The brothers turn over
their books.

443
00:29:44,391 --> 00:29:46,391
They show a strong hold
on the market...

444
00:29:48,047 --> 00:29:50,267
...and the potential
for a solid investment.

445
00:29:55,228 --> 00:29:57,358
Having those lines
of distribution

446
00:29:57,404 --> 00:30:00,714
is key any time that
a Mexican criminal organization

447
00:30:00,755 --> 00:30:02,795
wants to expand
in the United States.

448
00:30:02,844 --> 00:30:05,504
It was an ideal
business solution.

449
00:30:05,542 --> 00:30:08,762
But El Chapo's
just getting started.

450
00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:11,507
He's looking to expand
his control of the border,

451
00:30:11,548 --> 00:30:13,458
so he turns to
the eastern crossings,

452
00:30:13,507 --> 00:30:15,547
controlled by the Gulf Cartel.

453
00:30:15,596 --> 00:30:17,206
The Sinaloa Federation

454
00:30:17,250 --> 00:30:20,690
really wanted control
of this major corridor.

455
00:30:20,731 --> 00:30:22,911
After years of attempts

456
00:30:22,951 --> 00:30:24,301
at the Gulf's territory,

457
00:30:24,344 --> 00:30:26,564
El Chapo goes in to take it all.

458
00:30:26,607 --> 00:30:30,387
Gulf Cartel sent
its enforcers, Los Zetas --

459
00:30:30,437 --> 00:30:33,047
these are trained killers,
they're trained assassins,

460
00:30:33,092 --> 00:30:35,922
most of them were former
military special forces --

461
00:30:35,964 --> 00:30:38,364
to go out and fight
to keep this plaza.

462
00:30:38,401 --> 00:30:40,881
That paves the way for violence

463
00:30:40,926 --> 00:30:43,186
to absolutely skyrocket
in not only the level,

464
00:30:43,232 --> 00:30:46,192
but the characteristics
of the violence.

465
00:30:49,151 --> 00:30:51,281
That was when we first
started seeing

466
00:30:51,327 --> 00:30:54,807
the beheadings happen in Mexico,
the dismemberments.

467
00:30:54,853 --> 00:30:56,383
"If you're gonna
cut off somebody's head,

468
00:30:56,419 --> 00:30:58,289
well, we have to be able
to do it, too,

469
00:30:58,334 --> 00:31:02,604
to show our commitment to taking
over this piece of territory."

470
00:31:02,643 --> 00:31:06,303
That really was the epicenter
for the expansion

471
00:31:06,342 --> 00:31:08,042
of the levels of violence

472
00:31:08,083 --> 00:31:11,483
that we would come to see
in future years in the drug war.

473
00:31:11,521 --> 00:31:15,961
The cartels' extreme
violence becomes political fuel.

474
00:31:18,050 --> 00:31:20,270
Eight days
after his inauguration,

475
00:31:20,313 --> 00:31:23,233
President Felipe Calderón
echoes Richard Nixon,

476
00:31:23,272 --> 00:31:25,672
declaring Mexico's War on Drugs,

477
00:31:25,709 --> 00:31:27,709
but he takes it
one step further --

478
00:31:27,755 --> 00:31:29,445
calling on the military.

479
00:31:29,496 --> 00:31:33,406
20,000 soldiers are deployed
into cartel territory.

480
00:31:50,821 --> 00:31:53,651
Every market that
Calderón sent the military into

481
00:31:53,694 --> 00:31:55,914
to ostensibly end the drug war,

482
00:31:55,957 --> 00:31:58,087
the violence didn't go down,
it escalated.

483
00:31:58,133 --> 00:32:01,923
Despite Calderón's
declaration of a War on Drugs,

484
00:32:01,963 --> 00:32:04,313
Sinaloa persists.

485
00:32:04,357 --> 00:32:06,487
The El Paso-Juárez corridor --

486
00:32:06,533 --> 00:32:10,583
one of the most lucrative
corridors in the drug trade.

487
00:32:10,624 --> 00:32:15,194
Chapo Guzmán, he sees
the El Paso-Juárez corridor

488
00:32:15,237 --> 00:32:19,237
as the gold mine
of the drug world.

489
00:32:21,896 --> 00:32:23,766
After going for
the border crossings

490
00:32:23,811 --> 00:32:25,601
in the west and east,

491
00:32:25,639 --> 00:32:29,859
Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel has come
for the ultimate prize --

492
00:32:29,904 --> 00:32:32,254
Juárez, controlled by
the most powerful

493
00:32:35,823 --> 00:32:39,523
and stSinaloa was basicallyartel
killing off the police force

494
00:32:39,566 --> 00:32:41,916
that was loyal
to the Juárez Cartel.

495
00:32:45,224 --> 00:32:47,494
They started picking 'em off
one at a time,

496
00:32:47,530 --> 00:32:50,930
trying to one-up each other to
show who is the most powerful,

497
00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:53,579
who is the most capable
of inciting fear.

498
00:32:55,190 --> 00:32:57,190
The control over
the police force

499
00:32:57,236 --> 00:32:59,666
was really the key
to taking Juárez.

500
00:33:07,420 --> 00:33:10,080
The Sinaloa Cartel
is victorious,

501
00:33:10,118 --> 00:33:15,078
earning El Chapo exclusive
control of the border crossings.

502
00:33:15,123 --> 00:33:17,913
But back in the U.S.,
the Mexican cartels

503
00:33:17,952 --> 00:33:22,392
are about to face
powerful new competitors...

504
00:33:22,435 --> 00:33:27,525
legal narcotics
with deadly consequences.

505
00:33:27,570 --> 00:33:36,190
The actor Heath Ledger
was found dead today.

506
00:33:39,626 --> 00:33:41,106
O0 C1drug abuse by talk-show host
into the Rush Limbaughcription

507
00:33:41,149 --> 00:33:42,889
has ended in a plea deal.

508
00:33:42,933 --> 00:33:45,283
He was booked Friday
in Florida on a charge

509
00:33:45,327 --> 00:33:47,937
of getting multiple
prescriptions from
more than one doctor.

510
00:33:47,982 --> 00:33:50,902
The actor Heath Ledger
was found dead today

511
00:33:50,941 --> 00:33:52,811
in an apartment
here in New York City.

512
00:33:52,856 --> 00:33:54,766
The investigation now
focuses on the theory

513
00:33:54,815 --> 00:33:56,815
that an accidental overdose
of prescription medication

514
00:33:56,860 --> 00:33:58,380
killed Heath Ledger.

515
00:33:58,427 --> 00:34:00,297
Officials say
the death of the actor

516
00:34:00,342 --> 00:34:04,042
highlights the growing danger
of prescription-drug abuse.

517
00:34:04,085 --> 00:34:06,475
When I'm asked what I think
about the War on Drugs,

518
00:34:06,522 --> 00:34:08,052
I often say that I think

519
00:34:08,089 --> 00:34:11,749
that we're focusing
on the wrong problem.

520
00:34:11,788 --> 00:34:13,748
We're all concerned
about illegal drugs

521
00:34:13,790 --> 00:34:16,100
like cocaine and heroin,

522
00:34:16,141 --> 00:34:19,191
but they're diverting attention
to the real problem,

523
00:34:19,231 --> 00:34:20,841
the big elephant in the room,

524
00:34:20,884 --> 00:34:23,194
which is that
we're legally killing you

525
00:34:23,235 --> 00:34:24,575
and we're getting away with it.

526
00:34:24,627 --> 00:34:27,497
And nobody's watching.

527
00:34:27,543 --> 00:34:29,113
The pharmaceutical industry,

528
00:34:29,154 --> 00:34:32,424
also known as Big Pharma.

529
00:34:32,461 --> 00:34:35,771
They have hundreds of thousands
of doctors on their payroll.

530
00:34:35,812 --> 00:34:37,902
In the last decade,
they've spent

531
00:34:37,945 --> 00:34:40,985
over $2 billion on lobbying,

532
00:34:41,035 --> 00:34:43,075
exceeding any other industry.

533
00:34:43,124 --> 00:34:46,614
The U.S. is one of
the only countries in the world

534
00:34:46,649 --> 00:34:48,649
that allows drug companies
to advertise

535
00:34:48,695 --> 00:34:50,865
directly to potential customers.

536
00:34:50,914 --> 00:34:55,404
$3 billion is spent
on drug ads every year.

537
00:34:55,441 --> 00:34:58,531
And in some states,
loopholes will open the door

538
00:34:58,574 --> 00:35:03,014
for a new kind
of outlaw entrepreneur.

539
00:35:10,195 --> 00:35:15,635
In a wealthy neighborhood,
two young entrepreneurs tee off,

540
00:35:15,678 --> 00:35:19,988
unaware that FBI surveillance
is watching their every move.

541
00:35:21,945 --> 00:35:25,505
The men are brothers.
Chris and Jeff George.

542
00:35:25,558 --> 00:35:27,258
In their late 20s,
they got their start

543
00:35:27,299 --> 00:35:29,819
selling steroids online...

544
00:35:29,866 --> 00:35:33,476
before becoming game-changers
in the drug industry,

545
00:35:33,522 --> 00:35:36,182
dispensing
thousands of pills a day,

546
00:35:36,221 --> 00:35:38,311
all in the name
of pain management

547
00:35:38,353 --> 00:35:40,443
and wrapped in a
doctor's stamp of approval.

548
00:35:42,705 --> 00:35:44,485
The George brothers

549
00:35:44,533 --> 00:35:48,623
really exploited this loophole

550
00:35:48,668 --> 00:35:50,188
in pain-management clinics,

551
00:35:50,235 --> 00:35:52,275
because there was
virtually no oversight

552
00:35:52,324 --> 00:35:53,764
in Florida at the time.

553
00:35:53,803 --> 00:35:55,413
Anybody could start
a pain clinic.

554
00:35:59,157 --> 00:36:01,897
Chris George started
his operation in a strip mall

555
00:36:01,942 --> 00:36:04,162
with a single
pain-management clinic.

556
00:36:09,079 --> 00:36:12,469
The small staff of doctors
were sourced from Craigslist

557
00:36:12,518 --> 00:36:15,558
and were compensated
on a per-patient basis,

558
00:36:15,608 --> 00:36:20,218
given incentives for large
and frequent prescriptions.

559
00:36:20,265 --> 00:36:23,305
Whatever ailments
the patients came in with,

560
00:36:23,355 --> 00:36:27,225
the script the doctors
were pushing was OxyContin,

561
00:36:27,272 --> 00:36:29,322
also known as oxycodone --

562
00:36:29,361 --> 00:36:31,971
synthesized
from the opium poppy,

563
00:36:32,015 --> 00:36:34,185
prescribed for the treatment
of moderate to severe pain,

564
00:36:34,235 --> 00:36:38,065
advertised a non-addictive
substitute to morphine.

565
00:36:38,108 --> 00:36:40,418
Reality -- highly addictive,

566
00:36:40,459 --> 00:36:43,679
binding to the same
brain receptors as heroin.

567
00:36:47,161 --> 00:36:50,381
For me, it was like --
Felt like a big warm hug.

568
00:36:50,425 --> 00:36:53,645
I felt kind of invincible
when I took it,

569
00:36:53,689 --> 00:36:56,259
but at some point,
the feeling good stopped

570
00:36:56,301 --> 00:36:58,351
and I turned into an addict.

571
00:36:58,390 --> 00:37:01,650
This stupid, little pill
has control of my life,

572
00:37:01,697 --> 00:37:03,437
and there's nothing
I can do about it.

573
00:37:03,482 --> 00:37:05,922
Man #1:
What did you have?

574
00:37:05,962 --> 00:37:07,752
Man #2: The Oxy 30s.

575
00:37:07,790 --> 00:37:09,580
Many of these addicts

576
00:37:09,618 --> 00:37:11,658
were supporting their habit
through pop-up pain clinics

577
00:37:11,707 --> 00:37:14,617
that soon became known
as pill mills...

578
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,930
...a pharmacy, clinic,
or doctor's office

579
00:37:19,976 --> 00:37:22,016
that dispenses
hardcore narcotics

580
00:37:22,065 --> 00:37:26,235
without a legitimate
medical need.

581
00:37:26,287 --> 00:37:29,197
Sometimes we even called them
"doc in the box."

582
00:37:29,247 --> 00:37:31,417
They're heavy on advertising

583
00:37:31,466 --> 00:37:33,426
and light on service.

584
00:37:33,468 --> 00:37:36,298
You know, "Hey, come get your
pills, come get your pills."

585
00:37:36,341 --> 00:37:38,651
Recreational drug dealers
is what they were.

586
00:37:38,691 --> 00:37:40,781
It wasn't long before
the lucrative business

587
00:37:40,823 --> 00:37:42,783
drew Jeff's brother, Chris, in.

588
00:37:44,914 --> 00:37:47,794
Their operation
was a well-oiled machine,

589
00:37:47,830 --> 00:37:50,490
designed for maximum efficiency

590
00:37:50,529 --> 00:37:53,309
with a constant stream
of patients.

591
00:37:55,882 --> 00:37:58,972
Copycat pain clinics
begin to pop up --

592
00:37:59,015 --> 00:38:01,405
89 in Broward County alone.

593
00:38:04,499 --> 00:38:07,069
Then Chris George
makes a big move

594
00:38:07,110 --> 00:38:10,900
and invests in a
20,000-square-foot property,

595
00:38:10,940 --> 00:38:13,730
creating the largest pill mill
in the U.S.

596
00:38:16,381 --> 00:38:18,381
The American Pain Clinic --

597
00:38:18,426 --> 00:38:20,646
they were probably
seeing in excess

598
00:38:20,689 --> 00:38:25,299
of 500 patients a day
at $100 a pop.

599
00:38:25,346 --> 00:38:28,216
The line wraps around the
building and the parking lot,

600
00:38:28,262 --> 00:38:30,132
with an average
doctor/patient interaction

601
00:38:30,177 --> 00:38:32,087
under four minutes.

602
00:38:32,135 --> 00:38:35,265
These guys had so many people
coming through their doors

603
00:38:35,313 --> 00:38:37,923
that they actually gave
the doctors a rubber stamp

604
00:38:37,967 --> 00:38:40,837
with their autograph on it
so they just, bam, stamped it

605
00:38:40,883 --> 00:38:42,543
and just sent people
on their way.

606
00:38:42,581 --> 00:38:46,021
They had strippers working
in the pain clinics.

607
00:38:46,062 --> 00:38:48,632
They had bodyguards
in golf carts

608
00:38:48,674 --> 00:38:50,854
patrolling parking lots.

609
00:38:50,893 --> 00:38:52,683
Some of the doctors
even carried guns

610
00:38:52,721 --> 00:38:54,511
because it was such
a risky business

611
00:38:54,549 --> 00:38:56,199
dealing with
all of these addicts.

612
00:39:00,163 --> 00:39:02,343
In the parking lot
behind the strip club,

613
00:39:02,383 --> 00:39:04,393
they set up a mobile MRI Unit.

614
00:39:09,564 --> 00:39:11,484
After a while,
they just started

615
00:39:11,523 --> 00:39:13,703
giving people
other people's MRIs

616
00:39:13,742 --> 00:39:16,052
because why do the test
if -- if you don't have to?

617
00:39:16,092 --> 00:39:18,182
You can just hand somebody
a piece of film.

618
00:39:18,225 --> 00:39:20,835
The George brothers were
obviously doctoring records

619
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,450
and doing whatever
they had to do

620
00:39:22,490 --> 00:39:24,450
in order to make the money.

621
00:39:24,492 --> 00:39:26,842
The George brothers
were raking in the profits,

622
00:39:26,886 --> 00:39:31,716
making $40 million in two years.

623
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,370
They were living
a very lavish lifestyle.

624
00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:40,416
It's all about the money.

625
00:39:40,465 --> 00:39:42,415
It definitely has
the same ear markings

626
00:39:42,467 --> 00:39:46,037
of, you know, an illegal
and illicit drug trade.

627
00:39:51,432 --> 00:39:53,262
The George brothers
are on their way

628
00:39:53,303 --> 00:39:55,443
to meet an associate,
Robert Eddy,

629
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,310
at a vacant house
in their upscale neighborhood.

630
00:40:01,137 --> 00:40:04,047
They suspect Eddy
is stealing from them.

631
00:40:04,097 --> 00:40:06,967
God!

632
00:40:25,510 --> 00:40:28,030
The bullet just misses Eddy,

633
00:40:28,077 --> 00:40:31,037
and he continues
to plead his innocence.

634
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,740
The brothers eventually
come around to his story

635
00:40:33,779 --> 00:40:38,779
and pay him $10,000 to keep
silent about the incident.

636
00:40:38,827 --> 00:40:41,827
This is just like
the Mexican drug cartel.

637
00:40:41,874 --> 00:40:44,494
The George brothers
were the kingpins

638
00:40:44,529 --> 00:40:46,489
of the oxycodone
drug trafficking.

639
00:40:51,884 --> 00:40:54,454
This erratic driver

640
00:40:54,495 --> 00:40:58,795
catches the attention of police
and is forced off the road.

641
00:41:06,942 --> 00:41:08,862
Inside the car,

642
00:41:08,901 --> 00:41:12,511
OxyContin bottles
cover the passenger seat.

643
00:41:12,557 --> 00:41:14,947
9 out of 10
George brothers' patients

644
00:41:14,994 --> 00:41:18,614
are from out of state.

645
00:41:18,650 --> 00:41:20,740
There were so many people

646
00:41:20,782 --> 00:41:23,832
driving from West Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee

647
00:41:23,872 --> 00:41:26,312
down to Florida
to get their pills

648
00:41:26,353 --> 00:41:29,973
that they actually nicknamed
the stretch of I-75 "Oxy Alley."

649
00:41:30,009 --> 00:41:32,269
There was a-a large
number of overdose deaths

650
00:41:32,315 --> 00:41:33,665
that started taking place

651
00:41:33,708 --> 00:41:35,228
in these people
that were coming in

652
00:41:35,275 --> 00:41:37,015
from other states
to source their drugs,

653
00:41:37,059 --> 00:41:39,409
and they would end up
in car accidents

654
00:41:39,453 --> 00:41:41,463
or overdosing
on the side of the road

655
00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:43,629
after they had been
to the pain clinic.

656
00:41:43,675 --> 00:41:46,155
The rise in prescription-drug
overdose deaths

657
00:41:46,199 --> 00:41:48,159
catches national attention.

658
00:41:48,201 --> 00:41:50,161
And of the top doctors

659
00:41:50,203 --> 00:41:52,383
dispensing
prescription painkillers,

660
00:41:52,422 --> 00:41:55,692
five of them
are from American Pain,

661
00:41:55,730 --> 00:42:00,340
and so the clinics
become a target.

662
00:42:00,387 --> 00:42:02,477
Too many patients died.

663
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,910
They weren't able to fly
under the radar anymore.

664
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,310
After months under surveillance,

665
00:42:13,356 --> 00:42:17,186
an FBI-DEA task force
decide to bring formal charges

666
00:42:17,230 --> 00:42:20,060
against Chris and Jeff George.

667
00:42:20,102 --> 00:42:22,672
On my command, we'll --
we'll basically --

668
00:42:22,714 --> 00:42:25,024
We'll gear up, we'll line up,
and we'll go ahead and --

669
00:42:25,064 --> 00:42:27,504
and knock, announce,
and make entry on the clinic.

670
00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:29,675
Everybody sees here on the opsum
we have the address.

671
00:42:29,721 --> 00:42:31,111
Group 13 has the entry tools.

672
00:42:31,157 --> 00:42:32,717
And, the rest of the guys,
I'll tell you

673
00:42:32,767 --> 00:42:34,507
where you're gonna fall in
on the perimeter.

674
00:42:36,466 --> 00:42:38,466
Hands up! FBI!

675
00:42:38,512 --> 00:42:40,512
-Hands up!
-Hands up! FBI!

676
00:42:40,558 --> 00:42:42,388
-DEA!
-DEA!

677
00:42:44,605 --> 00:42:46,865
-DEA!
-FBI! Hands up!

678
00:42:46,912 --> 00:42:48,872
Hands up! DEA!

679
00:42:51,656 --> 00:42:54,346
As the SWAT teams
were breaking down the doors,

680
00:42:54,397 --> 00:42:56,747
the patients were also fighting
with the receptionist

681
00:42:56,791 --> 00:42:58,581
trying to get in
so they could get

682
00:42:58,619 --> 00:43:00,969
that last script
before the doors were closed.

683
00:43:01,013 --> 00:43:02,713
Come on back!

684
00:43:06,627 --> 00:43:08,457
Over their two-year run,

685
00:43:08,498 --> 00:43:12,678
the George brothers sold over
20 million OxyContin pills.

686
00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:16,460
Prosecutors have traced
over 50 overdose deaths

687
00:43:16,506 --> 00:43:18,546
back to their clinics.

688
00:43:18,596 --> 00:43:22,336
Jeff George is sentenced
to 15 1/2 years.

689
00:43:22,382 --> 00:43:24,732
Chris George receives
a reduced sentence

690
00:43:24,776 --> 00:43:27,906
for his testimony against
some of his own physicians

691
00:43:27,953 --> 00:43:30,303
and is serving
a 14-year sentence.

692
00:43:30,346 --> 00:43:32,646
The crackdown sends a message

693
00:43:32,697 --> 00:43:35,827
to pill mills
and over-prescribers.

694
00:43:35,874 --> 00:43:39,884
From 2010 to 2011,
the oxycodone market

695
00:43:39,921 --> 00:43:43,451
decreased by 97% in Florida.

696
00:43:43,490 --> 00:43:45,840
But the opioids
continue to be prescribed.

697
00:43:45,884 --> 00:43:51,064
In 2012,
259 million scripts are written,

698
00:43:51,106 --> 00:43:54,106
enough for every American adult
to have a bottle.

699
00:43:54,153 --> 00:43:58,243
But the crackdown will also have
severe consequences.

700
00:43:58,287 --> 00:44:01,637
The DEA, they hold
these press conferences.

701
00:44:01,682 --> 00:44:05,692
"We've taken this, X number
of pills off the street.

702
00:44:05,730 --> 00:44:08,860
We've arrested these doctors.
Everybody's gonna face justice."

703
00:44:08,907 --> 00:44:12,557
And, of course, the thing
that no one ever talks about

704
00:44:12,606 --> 00:44:15,826
is demand remains constant.

705
00:44:15,870 --> 00:44:18,700
So when you take away
one source,

706
00:44:18,743 --> 00:44:21,703
those people that are
inclined to addiction

707
00:44:21,746 --> 00:44:24,266
are going to turn to
another source.

708
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,670
Drug lords
in Afghanistan and Mexico

709
00:44:29,710 --> 00:44:31,800
are poised to meet the demand.

710
00:44:31,843 --> 00:44:34,723
An epidemic is coming --

711
00:44:34,759 --> 00:44:36,759
heroin.

712
00:44:55,736 --> 00:44:59,736
While a heroin
epidemic grows at home...

713
00:44:59,784 --> 00:45:04,484
in Afghanistan,
the War on Terror rages on

714
00:45:04,527 --> 00:45:07,007
with an enemy fueled
by the drug trade.

715
00:45:09,271 --> 00:45:13,801
Now the DEA joins the fight.

716
00:45:13,841 --> 00:45:16,581
The Drug Enforcement
Administration --

717
00:45:16,626 --> 00:45:18,446
created by Nixon in 1973

718
00:45:18,498 --> 00:45:20,108
to fight
the federal government's

719
00:45:20,152 --> 00:45:22,332
war on drugs at home and abroad.

720
00:45:25,287 --> 00:45:27,857
Follis: DEA is the only agency
in the world

721
00:45:27,899 --> 00:45:30,899
that can enter
into hostile zones

722
00:45:30,945 --> 00:45:32,985
and develop an investigation.

723
00:45:33,034 --> 00:45:36,394
Loaded. There's a bunch
of mags in here.

724
00:45:36,429 --> 00:45:39,039
-Reeks like hash down here.
-Yeah, you can smell it.

725
00:45:39,084 --> 00:45:42,354
Oh, that's hash.

726
00:45:42,391 --> 00:45:45,051
The opium and heroin
trade in Afghanistan

727
00:45:45,090 --> 00:45:47,350
is the principal source
of funding

728
00:45:47,396 --> 00:45:49,696
for the Taliban's
continued insurgency.

729
00:45:58,494 --> 00:46:00,894
At a bazaar
in Jalalabad, Afghanistan,

730
00:46:00,932 --> 00:46:03,762
known for its drug trade...

731
00:46:09,027 --> 00:46:11,027
...a man approaches a stall

732
00:46:11,072 --> 00:46:14,382
looking to make a large purchase
of high-quality opium.

733
00:46:17,383 --> 00:46:20,133
Jalalabad is the epicenter

734
00:46:20,168 --> 00:46:23,348
of heroin and opium exportation,

735
00:46:23,389 --> 00:46:28,129
well-known as hosting
overt opium bazaars.

736
00:46:40,972 --> 00:46:44,762
One of Afghanistan's
top drug lords, Haji Bagcho,

737
00:46:44,802 --> 00:46:48,202
produces nearly 20%
of the world's supply.

738
00:46:52,157 --> 00:46:54,717
But this isn't
business as usual.

739
00:46:54,768 --> 00:46:57,988
The buyer's
an undercover DEA agent.

740
00:46:58,032 --> 00:47:00,772
As we began to develop
our investigations,

741
00:47:00,818 --> 00:47:03,688
a trafficker named
Haji Bagcho was identified

742
00:47:03,733 --> 00:47:06,303
as the dominant
trafficking figure

743
00:47:06,345 --> 00:47:10,345
in the entire southeast region
of Afghanistan.

744
00:47:10,392 --> 00:47:11,792
Move across. Let's go.

745
00:47:11,829 --> 00:47:13,569
A team of DEA agents

746
00:47:13,613 --> 00:47:16,093
in full combat gear
move into position.

747
00:47:16,137 --> 00:47:18,047
All right, hey,
tuck up against the wall.

748
00:47:19,837 --> 00:47:21,967
The agent signals
payment has been made.

749
00:47:27,932 --> 00:47:30,672
-Handcuffs.

750
00:47:30,717 --> 00:47:32,237
Relax.

751
00:47:32,284 --> 00:47:36,074
We're placing your husband
under arrest

752
00:47:36,114 --> 00:47:40,214
for narcotics, illegal
possession of narcotics.

753
00:47:42,468 --> 00:47:45,078
Agents confiscate
Bagcho's ledgers.

754
00:47:47,647 --> 00:47:50,127
Those ledgers gave us
a treasure trove

755
00:47:50,171 --> 00:47:52,781
of straight-up payments
that were made

756
00:47:52,826 --> 00:47:55,916
to other traffickers,
government officials,

757
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,400
but most striking of all that
were the payments to the Taliban

758
00:47:59,441 --> 00:48:04,011
in the amounts that well moved
into the millions of dollars.

759
00:48:04,055 --> 00:48:06,445
The operation proves drug money

760
00:48:06,492 --> 00:48:09,102
is being used
to finance the Taliban

761
00:48:09,147 --> 00:48:12,927
in their war
against coalition forces.

762
00:48:12,977 --> 00:48:14,757
Now Afghan heroin

763
00:48:14,804 --> 00:48:18,464
and opium was an enemy
of the United States.

764
00:48:18,504 --> 00:48:21,424
The U.S. government
makes a major policy shift,

765
00:48:21,463 --> 00:48:24,383
taking on drug traffickers
in Afghanistan.

766
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,340
And they give
the DEA new ammunition

767
00:48:30,385 --> 00:48:32,335
by creating a new crime --

768
00:48:32,387 --> 00:48:34,557
narco-terrorism.

769
00:48:37,088 --> 00:48:40,528
Haji Bagcho is one the first
convicted under the new law,

770
00:48:40,569 --> 00:48:42,049
created to pursue offenders

771
00:48:42,093 --> 00:48:44,403
who have one hand
in drug trafficking

772
00:48:44,443 --> 00:48:46,053
and another in terror.

773
00:48:48,273 --> 00:48:51,843
DEA always functions
within the guidelines,

774
00:48:51,885 --> 00:48:54,495
restrictions,
the policy mandates.

775
00:48:54,540 --> 00:49:00,070
It's been said that other
agencies with different agendas

776
00:49:00,111 --> 00:49:03,901
will work with wily
and corrupt figures

777
00:49:03,941 --> 00:49:05,641
within any given government.

778
00:49:05,681 --> 00:49:06,991
Does it happen?

779
00:49:07,031 --> 00:49:08,511
I'm sure it does.

780
00:49:08,554 --> 00:49:11,214
But it doesn't
happen within DEA.

781
00:49:12,993 --> 00:49:17,613
The DEA and the CIA
can often butt heads.

782
00:49:17,650 --> 00:49:22,310
The DEA wants to arrest
drug kingpins

783
00:49:22,350 --> 00:49:24,440
or drug narco traffickers.

784
00:49:24,483 --> 00:49:26,793
A lot of times these are
precisely the people

785
00:49:26,833 --> 00:49:29,443
that the CIA
might want to recruit

786
00:49:29,488 --> 00:49:31,968
to accomplish
their loftier mission

787
00:49:32,012 --> 00:49:35,492
of keeping America safe
from terrorists.

788
00:49:40,629 --> 00:49:42,149
Three years earlier,

789
00:49:42,196 --> 00:49:45,456
one of Afghanistan's
largest opium fields.

790
00:49:53,512 --> 00:49:57,862
No country has ever been
as addicted to drugs

791
00:49:57,907 --> 00:50:02,697
from an economic standpoint
as Afghanistan has been.

792
00:50:02,738 --> 00:50:06,958
How anyone will ever undo that
is really hard to imagine.

793
00:50:14,054 --> 00:50:17,494
Haji Juma Khan,
an illiterate tribesman

794
00:50:17,536 --> 00:50:20,536
with 14 wives, 29 children,

795
00:50:20,582 --> 00:50:23,462
and a personal army
of 1,500 men.

796
00:50:23,498 --> 00:50:26,238
He's also a founding member
of the Taliban.

797
00:50:26,284 --> 00:50:28,594
Haji Juma Khan was
one of the world's

798
00:50:28,634 --> 00:50:30,554
leading heroin traffickers

799
00:50:30,592 --> 00:50:32,942
and supplied the Taliban

800
00:50:32,986 --> 00:50:34,806
with an enormous amount
of weaponry.

801
00:50:34,857 --> 00:50:37,557
He really was a principal
financier of the Taliban.

802
00:50:41,473 --> 00:50:45,043
Workers test the new
crop of raw opium for quality.

803
00:50:49,437 --> 00:50:52,917
This batch is grade "A."

804
00:50:52,962 --> 00:50:56,232
This opium will produce
two pounds of pure heroin.

805
00:50:56,270 --> 00:51:00,410
Street value in the U.S. --
over $100,000.

806
00:51:02,972 --> 00:51:07,592
Juma Khan is now alleged to be
on the DEA's target list.

807
00:51:07,629 --> 00:51:12,069
Agents work to deepen their
relationship and gain access.

808
00:51:12,112 --> 00:51:15,772
One agent gets Khan to confide
about a medical condition.

809
00:51:27,127 --> 00:51:29,257
Haji Juma Khan came
to the United States

810
00:51:29,303 --> 00:51:32,653
believing he had a
life-threatening form of cancer.

811
00:51:40,619 --> 00:51:42,449
Using his health
as a bargaining chip,

812
00:51:42,490 --> 00:51:45,930
agents broker a trade...

813
00:51:45,972 --> 00:51:48,802
medical care for intel.

814
00:51:48,844 --> 00:51:50,464
Am I going to die?

815
00:51:50,498 --> 00:51:52,808
Not in this case,
Mr. Khan.

816
00:51:52,848 --> 00:51:55,288
While a doctor prescribes
a course of treatment,

817
00:51:55,329 --> 00:51:59,769
Juma Khan is allegedly debriefed
by both the DEA and the CIA.

818
00:51:59,812 --> 00:52:01,732
The mission --
to gather intelligence

819
00:52:01,770 --> 00:52:04,250
from the drug lord
on Islamic terrorist activity

820
00:52:04,295 --> 00:52:06,425
and its connection
to the heroin trade.

821
00:52:06,471 --> 00:52:09,821
Somebody like Haji Juma Khan
for the agency

822
00:52:09,865 --> 00:52:13,385
would represent a confidential
source and potential operative

823
00:52:13,434 --> 00:52:16,924
who could get to very high
levels of the Taliban.

824
00:52:22,182 --> 00:52:23,882
They flipped him,
and he was put on a plane

825
00:52:23,923 --> 00:52:26,493
and -- and sent back
to Afghanistan in return

826
00:52:26,534 --> 00:52:29,364
for getting information
about the Taliban.

827
00:52:29,407 --> 00:52:32,187
This is not
the first time the CIA

828
00:52:32,236 --> 00:52:34,846
has been in bed with drug lords.

829
00:52:34,890 --> 00:52:38,110
In Cuba, the CIA forges
an alliance with mob boss

830
00:52:38,155 --> 00:52:40,585
and heroin trafficker
Santo Trafficante

831
00:52:40,635 --> 00:52:44,195
to plot the assassination
of Fidel Castro.

832
00:52:44,248 --> 00:52:47,208
In Laos, the agency aligns
with local war lord

833
00:52:47,251 --> 00:52:52,211
and opium producer Vang Pao
to fight Communist insurgents,

834
00:52:52,256 --> 00:52:53,906
and again in Nicaragua,

835
00:52:53,953 --> 00:52:57,613
where cocaine helps
fund an illegal CIA war.

836
00:53:05,007 --> 00:53:08,657
The CIA will take any person,
no matter how

837
00:53:08,707 --> 00:53:11,227
morally, ethically,

838
00:53:11,275 --> 00:53:13,965
situationally challenged
they may be,

839
00:53:14,016 --> 00:53:17,056
and if they think there's
a use for that person,

840
00:53:17,106 --> 00:53:20,106
they will try to exploit that.

841
00:53:20,153 --> 00:53:23,243
The U.S. government
allows Central Asia's largest

842
00:53:23,287 --> 00:53:27,197
drug trafficker,
Haji Juma Khan, to walk.

843
00:53:27,247 --> 00:53:30,897
Agents decide having a mole
inside the Taliban's network

844
00:53:30,946 --> 00:53:35,076
is more valuable than stopping
one of their money sources.

845
00:53:35,124 --> 00:53:40,004
Many people might look at drug
traffickers as the villains.

846
00:53:40,042 --> 00:53:42,962
I think from the optic
of the agency,

847
00:53:43,002 --> 00:53:46,092
the benefit of working
with narco traffickers

848
00:53:46,135 --> 00:53:48,695
is they're largely apolitical,

849
00:53:48,747 --> 00:53:51,527
and they are very motivated
by money

850
00:53:51,576 --> 00:53:54,096
and can be manipulated,
potentially,

851
00:53:54,143 --> 00:53:57,713
to achieve a-a higher mission.

852
00:53:57,756 --> 00:54:02,056
Ultimately we're going to have
to look at the War on Drugs

853
00:54:02,108 --> 00:54:05,068
in a different optic.

854
00:54:05,111 --> 00:54:07,031
It's an un-winnable war

855
00:54:07,069 --> 00:54:09,939
and always will be
an exploitable tool

856
00:54:09,985 --> 00:54:11,935
that we can use.

857
00:54:22,476 --> 00:54:25,346
While U.S. casualties
in Afghanistan grow,

858
00:54:25,392 --> 00:54:29,352
the Taliban insurgency
gains strength by the day,

859
00:54:29,396 --> 00:54:30,916
and the pressure to capture

860
00:54:30,963 --> 00:54:34,313
or kill Osama bin Laden
intensifies.

861
00:54:36,969 --> 00:54:39,709
The Taliban's
strategic objectives

862
00:54:39,754 --> 00:54:41,324
made a lot of sense
from the standpoint

863
00:54:41,365 --> 00:54:43,365
of wanting to grow
their heroin empir

864
00:54:43,410 --> 00:54:46,370
as opposed to trying
to retake Kabul,

865
00:54:46,413 --> 00:54:48,943
which was the political
capital of the country.

866
00:54:48,981 --> 00:54:51,811
Farmers prepare bags
of opium poppies

867
00:54:51,853 --> 00:54:54,903
to be shipped to a heroin lab.

868
00:54:54,943 --> 00:54:58,163
This field is owned
by Haji Juma Khan.

869
00:54:58,207 --> 00:55:01,517
For years, he's allegedly been
a U.S. government informant

870
00:55:01,559 --> 00:55:03,689
even though much of the money
he makes

871
00:55:03,735 --> 00:55:06,345
goes directly
to America's enemies.

872
00:55:06,390 --> 00:55:08,610
Haji Juma Khan
was considered to be

873
00:55:08,653 --> 00:55:11,403
one of the -- the closest
traffickers to the Taliban.

874
00:55:11,438 --> 00:55:12,958
He was well-known

875
00:55:13,005 --> 00:55:16,355
for moving these gigantic
convoys of narcotics

876
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:20,190
and moving huge amounts of
weapons back into Afghanistan.

877
00:55:20,229 --> 00:55:23,929
With the Taliban now
earning $300 million a year

878
00:55:23,972 --> 00:55:27,282
from opium,
the Pentagon shifts course.

879
00:55:27,324 --> 00:55:32,814
Haji Juma Khan is allegedly
put on a kill list.

880
00:55:32,851 --> 00:55:35,291
And the DEA is assigned
a new task,

881
00:55:35,332 --> 00:55:37,252
something they don't
normally do --

882
00:55:37,290 --> 00:55:41,080
assist in an assassination.

883
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:42,820
Juma Khan is allegedly targeted

884
00:55:42,861 --> 00:55:45,251
by one of the go-to tactics
in the War on Terror

885
00:55:45,298 --> 00:55:48,738
but rarely used
in the War on Drugs --

886
00:55:48,780 --> 00:55:50,390
a drone strike.

887
00:55:59,747 --> 00:56:04,097
A DEA agent calls Juma Khan
and urges him to meet.

888
00:56:07,842 --> 00:56:11,802
Unaware of the drone
tracking him...

889
00:56:11,846 --> 00:56:14,406
Juma Khan is lured
out of his compound.

890
00:56:27,209 --> 00:56:29,429
But instead of setting him up
for the kill,

891
00:56:29,473 --> 00:56:32,743
the DEA allegedly
defies the Pentagon

892
00:56:32,780 --> 00:56:36,260
and puts Juma Khan on a plane
bound for Indonesia.

893
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,840
We're set for the first
six months of this year.

894
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:47,970
And then we'll go even further
up from there...

895
00:56:48,013 --> 00:56:49,543
The DEA has saved his life.

896
00:56:49,580 --> 00:56:52,800
The local police, working
with the DEA, arrest him.

897
00:56:55,020 --> 00:56:57,110
Khan, make it easy
on yourself.

898
00:56:57,152 --> 00:56:58,552
Take it easy.

899
00:56:59,894 --> 00:57:02,164
This way.
Come on.

900
00:57:02,201 --> 00:57:04,071
Within minutes,

901
00:57:04,116 --> 00:57:06,896
he is put on a plane bound
for the United States.

902
00:57:09,251 --> 00:57:12,251
Juma Khan is charged
with financing the Taliban

903
00:57:12,298 --> 00:57:14,208
under the new
narco-terrorism law

904
00:57:14,256 --> 00:57:16,426
and faces a life sentence.

905
00:57:18,347 --> 00:57:20,957
The U.S. military's
dimensional thinking

906
00:57:21,002 --> 00:57:22,922
is always be capture or kill.

907
00:57:22,961 --> 00:57:24,921
The law enforcement

908
00:57:24,963 --> 00:57:26,973
was not to focus
on capture and kill,

909
00:57:27,008 --> 00:57:28,618
but investigate and prosecute.

910
00:57:28,662 --> 00:57:32,582
By removing those
primary players, as we did,

911
00:57:32,623 --> 00:57:37,193
it slowed the trafficking
industry down measurably.

912
00:57:37,236 --> 00:57:38,886
But there's always,

913
00:57:38,933 --> 00:57:41,683
always someone to take
their place eventually.

914
00:57:41,719 --> 00:57:44,069
Because unequivocally,

915
00:57:44,112 --> 00:57:49,422
rewards always outweigh
the risks in drug trafficking.

916
00:57:56,168 --> 00:57:58,778
While the Taliban's
drug traffic is being disrupted,

917
00:57:58,823 --> 00:58:01,223
the U.S.-backed president,
Hamid Karzai,

918
00:58:01,260 --> 00:58:05,350
is serving his second term
as Afghanistan's president.

919
00:58:05,394 --> 00:58:08,534
The win keeps the family's
control and interests safe,

920
00:58:08,572 --> 00:58:11,402
including the president's
brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai's,

921
00:58:11,444 --> 00:58:14,104
drug distribution network
in the south.

922
00:58:16,971 --> 00:58:19,061
Please -- Please make sure
it's done today.

923
00:58:19,104 --> 00:58:20,584
Ahmed Wali Karzai

924
00:58:20,627 --> 00:58:23,327
is in his heavily
fortified compound

925
00:58:23,369 --> 00:58:27,239
when a trusted security aide
enters the home.

926
00:58:27,286 --> 00:58:29,676
Oh.

927
00:58:31,638 --> 00:58:34,288
The president's brother is dead.

928
00:58:39,646 --> 00:58:43,346
And the Taliban immediate
take credit for the murder.

929
00:58:45,173 --> 00:58:48,443
After the American
occupation of Afghanistan,

930
00:58:48,481 --> 00:58:51,051
working with known
drug traffickers,

931
00:58:51,092 --> 00:58:52,962
including Wali Karzai,

932
00:58:53,007 --> 00:58:55,917
was simply a marriage
of convenience for the CIA.

933
00:58:55,967 --> 00:58:57,967
It was a means to an end.

934
00:58:58,012 --> 00:59:00,152
When people look
at these nuances

935
00:59:00,188 --> 00:59:02,498
and changes in the drug policy,

936
00:59:02,539 --> 00:59:05,539
sometimes we'll try
to capture them,

937
00:59:05,585 --> 00:59:07,845
sometimes we'll try
to "pick winners"

938
00:59:07,892 --> 00:59:09,982
and -- and maybe just
tamp down the violence.

939
00:59:10,024 --> 00:59:11,594
Sometimes we'll become
more aggressive,

940
00:59:11,635 --> 00:59:13,675
but really it's like
changing the deck chairs

941
00:59:13,724 --> 00:59:14,944
in the Titanic.

942
00:59:24,778 --> 00:59:26,648
Tonight, I can report

943
00:59:26,693 --> 00:59:29,783
to the American people
and to the world.

944
00:59:29,827 --> 00:59:32,307
The United States has
conducted an operation

945
00:59:32,351 --> 00:59:35,921
that killed Osama bin Laden,
the leader of Al-Qaeda.

946
00:59:44,450 --> 00:59:48,930
The issue that people get wrong
about the Afghan conflict

947
00:59:48,976 --> 00:59:51,806
is that they think it's all
about religion and ideology,

948
00:59:51,849 --> 00:59:54,109
and I think that it's a lot
more about drugs and money

949
00:59:54,155 --> 00:59:56,105
and power than anybody realizes.

950
00:59:56,157 --> 01:00:00,247
♪ God bless America

951
01:00:05,123 --> 01:00:06,563
Yeah!

952
01:00:12,391 --> 01:00:15,921
9/11 happened, and
the United States government

953
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:17,570
actually invaded

954
01:00:17,614 --> 01:00:21,924
one of the largest opium
producers in the world,

955
01:00:21,966 --> 01:00:25,266
and after more than
15 years of occupying,

956
01:00:25,317 --> 01:00:28,407
controlling,
influencing Afghanistan,

957
01:00:28,450 --> 01:00:31,280
the production
and monetary value

958
01:00:31,323 --> 01:00:34,943
of opium and heroin
from Afghanistan

959
01:00:34,979 --> 01:00:37,939
has actually gone up
every single year

960
01:00:37,982 --> 01:00:40,332
that the United States
government has been there.

961
01:00:40,375 --> 01:00:44,595
The fundamental problem
isn't the productionof drugs.

962
01:00:44,641 --> 01:00:51,301
The fundamental problem
is the demandfor drugs.

963
01:01:01,309 --> 01:01:04,269
As the U.S. faces
a growing opioid epidemic,

964
01:01:04,312 --> 01:01:07,712
the demand for heroin
skyrockets.

965
01:01:11,537 --> 01:01:14,667
And just across the border,

966
01:01:14,714 --> 01:01:19,284
Mexican cartels are diversifying
to meet the demand.

967
01:01:19,327 --> 01:01:21,157
The Sinaloa Federation

968
01:01:21,199 --> 01:01:23,379
had become
one of the most powerful

969
01:01:23,418 --> 01:01:28,288
and geographically spread out
cartels in Mexico.

970
01:01:28,336 --> 01:01:31,636
Mexico is a perfect
example of what happens

971
01:01:31,688 --> 01:01:35,818
when you empower people
who basically are total

972
01:01:35,866 --> 01:01:40,646
and completely beyond the pale
of law-abiding citizens.

973
01:01:46,964 --> 01:01:49,314
That guy's doin'
something down there.

974
01:01:49,357 --> 01:01:50,967
Man #2: Let's go in there
and see what's goin' on.

975
01:01:51,011 --> 01:01:52,711
-Yeah, he's doing something.
-You got coordinates?

976
01:01:52,752 --> 01:01:56,412
North 1-5-0-9-8-3-1-9er.

977
01:01:56,451 --> 01:01:59,021
Agents from
Immigration Customs Enforcement,

978
01:01:59,063 --> 01:02:00,803
also known as ICE,

979
01:02:00,847 --> 01:02:04,157
spot a small vessel coming up
the coast from Colombia,

980
01:02:04,198 --> 01:02:06,198
bolting for
the Mexican shoreline.

981
01:02:06,244 --> 01:02:08,034
No, he's going into the inlet.

982
01:02:08,072 --> 01:02:10,162
There's a whole crowd
of people meeting him.

983
01:02:10,204 --> 01:02:12,954
On the boat are
members of the Sinaloa Cartel.

984
01:02:12,990 --> 01:02:15,380
They're unloadin' stuff.

985
01:02:15,427 --> 01:02:18,777
Stashed on board --
pure cocaine.

986
01:02:18,822 --> 01:02:21,832
One of the challenges
when a large organization

987
01:02:21,868 --> 01:02:23,648
like the Sinaloa Federation
expands

988
01:02:23,696 --> 01:02:25,956
is to establish logistics,

989
01:02:26,003 --> 01:02:27,963
to establish a supply chain,

990
01:02:28,005 --> 01:02:30,875
and also local commanders
to make sure that they maintain

991
01:02:30,921 --> 01:02:34,711
the integrity
of that newfound territory.

992
01:02:34,751 --> 01:02:36,581
-They're unloading fuel barrels.
-Yep.

993
01:02:36,622 --> 01:02:39,712
Cartel middlemen
unload the product.

994
01:02:39,756 --> 01:02:42,576
All the fuel barrels
are off the ship.

995
01:02:42,628 --> 01:02:44,328
Overseeing the operation --

996
01:02:44,369 --> 01:02:45,979
Arturo Beltrán Leyva,

997
01:02:46,023 --> 01:02:48,373
nicknamed "The Boss of Bosses."

998
01:02:48,416 --> 01:02:51,026
He's a top Sinaloa enforcer.

999
01:02:53,595 --> 01:02:56,025
The coke is buried
below fish and ice

1000
01:02:56,076 --> 01:02:59,246
and loaded onto
commercial trucks.

1001
01:02:59,297 --> 01:03:02,127
Beltrán Leyva radios
Mexican border patrol agents

1002
01:03:02,169 --> 01:03:03,999
on the cartel payroll,

1003
01:03:04,041 --> 01:03:06,481
alerting them the trucks
are on the move,

1004
01:03:06,521 --> 01:03:11,051
ensuring safe passage across
the border to the United States.

1005
01:03:11,091 --> 01:03:12,831
Chapo built the perfect

1006
01:03:12,876 --> 01:03:15,526
vertically integrated enterprise

1007
01:03:15,574 --> 01:03:17,454
where you control your product

1008
01:03:17,489 --> 01:03:19,879
all the way from the ground
to the marketplace.

1009
01:03:22,146 --> 01:03:23,926
One of the most
fascinating things

1010
01:03:23,974 --> 01:03:27,334
about the relationship
that Mexican cartels have

1011
01:03:27,368 --> 01:03:30,548
with American distributors
is that

1012
01:03:30,589 --> 01:03:33,239
most Americans
have absolutely no idea

1013
01:03:33,287 --> 01:03:36,597
what is going on right
under their noses.

1014
01:03:36,638 --> 01:03:38,898
You could be driving
on any major highway

1015
01:03:38,945 --> 01:03:41,505
and see an 18-wheeler
right next to you

1016
01:03:41,556 --> 01:03:45,036
loaded with illegal drugs
moving across the country.

1017
01:03:45,082 --> 01:03:46,612
The endpoint --

1018
01:03:46,648 --> 01:03:48,688
the Flores brothers'
Chicago operation,

1019
01:03:48,737 --> 01:03:51,177
who distributes the product
to the street...

1020
01:03:51,218 --> 01:03:54,048
where the price will have
increased 15 times

1021
01:03:54,091 --> 01:03:57,531
to over $35,000 a kilo.

1022
01:03:57,572 --> 01:04:00,402
The Flores brothers
were wholesalers, in a sense,

1023
01:04:00,445 --> 01:04:02,525
that they were
getting product directly

1024
01:04:02,577 --> 01:04:04,277
from the Sinaloa organization.

1025
01:04:04,318 --> 01:04:07,318
And then they were, um,
distributing it to dealers.

1026
01:04:07,365 --> 01:04:10,015
They had houses rented that
they just packed with money.

1027
01:04:13,023 --> 01:04:15,983
As profits soar,
one of El Chapo's lieutenants,

1028
01:04:16,026 --> 01:04:17,806
Arturo Beltrán Leyva,

1029
01:04:17,854 --> 01:04:20,554
and his four brothers decide
to go out on their own.

1030
01:04:20,595 --> 01:04:21,945
The Beltrán Leyvas thought

1031
01:04:21,988 --> 01:04:23,818
that they would
manage operations better.

1032
01:04:23,860 --> 01:04:25,770
They had an issue with all
that money coming in

1033
01:04:25,818 --> 01:04:27,908
and not getting enough
of a piece of the pie,

1034
01:04:27,951 --> 01:04:29,691
and that was enough
impetus for them to --

1035
01:04:29,735 --> 01:04:32,215
to go out on their own.

1036
01:04:32,259 --> 01:04:35,919
El Chapo's son
has been released from prison.

1037
01:04:35,959 --> 01:04:39,009
But soon after,
Beltrán Leyva's brother

1038
01:04:39,049 --> 01:04:43,359
is suddenly arrested
by Mexican police.

1039
01:04:43,401 --> 01:04:45,101
And he suspects El Chapo

1040
01:04:45,142 --> 01:04:47,752
engineered a deal
with the authorities.

1041
01:04:50,451 --> 01:04:51,931
Now it's Beltrán Leyva's turn.

1042
01:04:51,975 --> 01:04:54,015
He has the dismembered
body parts

1043
01:04:54,064 --> 01:04:56,814
of El Chapo's militiamen
delivered to his enemy.

1044
01:05:00,635 --> 01:05:04,285
El Chapo firebombs
a Beltrán Leyva safe house.

1045
01:05:07,207 --> 01:05:09,037
The pattern of violence
continues

1046
01:05:09,079 --> 01:05:11,599
as the rivals
try to one-up each other.

1047
01:05:14,432 --> 01:05:16,912
To show who is
the most powerful,

1048
01:05:16,956 --> 01:05:19,916
who is the most capable
of inciting fear.

1049
01:05:23,441 --> 01:05:27,451
Then Beltrán Leyva
gets personal.

1050
01:05:33,494 --> 01:05:36,984
15 assassins open fire
in a parking lot.

1051
01:05:37,020 --> 01:05:41,590
One of the victims
is El Chapo's 22-year-old son.

1052
01:05:47,204 --> 01:05:49,904
Now the civil war is on.

1053
01:05:56,430 --> 01:06:02,050
116 people are killed
over the next month.

1054
01:06:02,088 --> 01:06:05,958
The surge in violence
puts Beltrán Leyva on the run.

1055
01:06:08,486 --> 01:06:10,876
And the Mexican military
reportedly place

1056
01:06:10,923 --> 01:06:14,543
a $2 million bounty on his head.

1057
01:06:14,579 --> 01:06:16,059
This is an indication

1058
01:06:16,102 --> 01:06:19,282
of the level
of insanity and violence

1059
01:06:19,323 --> 01:06:23,023
that takes place in Mexico
as a result of the drug war.

1060
01:06:23,066 --> 01:06:24,456
They're not fighting
about anything else

1061
01:06:24,502 --> 01:06:27,162
but the money
that's being made in drugs,

1062
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:31,290
so the drug war creates
this level of violence.

1063
01:06:31,335 --> 01:06:34,555
Once the killing starts,
it's like --

1064
01:06:34,599 --> 01:06:36,339
We've seen it in mafia movies --

1065
01:06:36,383 --> 01:06:39,083
You kill one of mine,
I kill three of yours.

1066
01:06:39,125 --> 01:06:41,385
I kill three of yours,
you kill six of mine.

1067
01:06:41,432 --> 01:06:43,132
And the level of violence

1068
01:06:43,173 --> 01:06:45,743
and killing just keeps upping
and upping and upping.

1069
01:06:45,784 --> 01:06:48,404
The Flores brothers
are caught in the middle,

1070
01:06:48,439 --> 01:06:51,359
as the two cartels go to war.

1071
01:06:51,398 --> 01:06:54,398
They decide their only move
is to work with the DEA,

1072
01:06:54,445 --> 01:06:57,355
allowing their calls
with El Chapo to be wiretapped

1073
01:06:57,404 --> 01:07:00,104
in exchange for protection.

1074
01:07:00,146 --> 01:07:01,756
Anybody's gonna be terrified

1075
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:03,890
when you're confronted
with that level of violence.

1076
01:07:03,932 --> 01:07:05,722
You figure, "I'm gonna walk out
and I'm gonna get shot.

1077
01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:07,110
I'm gonna get killed."

1078
01:07:07,153 --> 01:07:09,033
What happened
with the Flores brothers

1079
01:07:09,068 --> 01:07:10,848
is they had no good options.

1080
01:07:10,896 --> 01:07:13,726
Their only option was,
as far as they could see,

1081
01:07:13,768 --> 01:07:15,548
to work with the DEA

1082
01:07:15,596 --> 01:07:18,986
and hope that you're gonna
get protected by the government.

1083
01:07:26,868 --> 01:07:28,998
An informant tips off
the Mexican marines

1084
01:07:29,045 --> 01:07:32,085
to Arturo Beltrán Leyva's
location.

1085
01:08:00,511 --> 01:08:03,781
The marines cover
the bloody corpse in pesos

1086
01:08:03,818 --> 01:08:06,998
and pose Beltrán Leyva
for the press.

1087
01:08:09,737 --> 01:08:11,867
As a final show of force,

1088
01:08:11,913 --> 01:08:16,053
El Chapo sends a severed head
to Beltrán Levya's tomb.

1089
01:08:18,268 --> 01:08:21,398
Sinaloa is now poised
to take over

1090
01:08:21,445 --> 01:08:23,965
and become the
most powerful cartel

1091
01:08:24,012 --> 01:08:29,022
because they've got the police
doing their dirty work for them.

1092
01:08:29,061 --> 01:08:32,151
It's not an uncommon
strategy used in war --

1093
01:08:32,195 --> 01:08:36,585
to use the enemy of your enemy
to advance your interests.

1094
01:08:36,634 --> 01:08:38,514
We do it in Iraq.
We do it in Afghanistan.

1095
01:08:38,549 --> 01:08:42,379
We're doing it now in Syria.

1096
01:08:42,422 --> 01:08:43,992
El Chapo is now

1097
01:08:44,032 --> 01:08:46,562
one of the world's
most powerful drug lords

1098
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:50,260
and also one of the world's
most wanted men.

1099
01:09:12,539 --> 01:09:17,589
38 years
after the War on Drugs began,

1100
01:09:17,631 --> 01:09:20,111
there is a major push
for one of its biggest targets

1101
01:09:20,156 --> 01:09:23,246
to become legalized in America.

1102
01:09:29,774 --> 01:09:32,524
DEA agents in full combat gear

1103
01:09:32,559 --> 01:09:36,519
descend from a helicopter
and touch down on a farm.

1104
01:09:36,563 --> 01:09:40,183
The weed-like plants
are cut and confiscated.

1105
01:09:45,746 --> 01:09:49,226
This is marijuana...

1106
01:09:49,272 --> 01:09:51,972
also known as weed,

1107
01:09:52,013 --> 01:09:55,323
offering a mind-altering,
euphoric high.

1108
01:09:55,365 --> 01:10:00,535
Primary psychoactive element --
tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.

1109
01:10:02,633 --> 01:10:04,903
Despite the federal government

1110
01:10:04,939 --> 01:10:08,199
classifying marijuana
as a Schedule I illegal drug,

1111
01:10:08,247 --> 01:10:12,857
the cannabis market is now worth
an estimated $7 billion.

1112
01:10:12,904 --> 01:10:16,564
It was criminalized
in the early 20th century.

1113
01:10:19,258 --> 01:10:22,438
It was all about
the weed with roots in hell

1114
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:25,959
and this huge propaganda
that was --

1115
01:10:26,004 --> 01:10:27,834
that built up around marijuana.

1116
01:10:27,875 --> 01:10:29,565
This harmless-looking
cigarette

1117
01:10:29,616 --> 01:10:32,396
is cloaked in many
innocent disguises.

1118
01:10:32,445 --> 01:10:35,225
But light the match,
inhale the smoke,

1119
01:10:35,274 --> 01:10:38,804
and it becomes an invitation
to your own murder.

1120
01:10:43,500 --> 01:10:46,020
Through the 1930s,
'40s, and '50s,

1121
01:10:46,067 --> 01:10:47,937
government propaganda

1122
01:10:47,982 --> 01:10:51,332
claimed that marijuana
destroyed the human spirit.

1123
01:10:51,377 --> 01:10:53,897
It made young women
into fools and whores

1124
01:10:53,945 --> 01:10:56,155
and turned men into rapists.

1125
01:10:59,167 --> 01:11:02,127
They lied to us
about this plant.

1126
01:11:02,170 --> 01:11:04,130
You smoked it,
and you suddenly said,

1127
01:11:04,172 --> 01:11:06,702
"Wait a minute, now.
This stuff isn't so bad.

1128
01:11:06,740 --> 01:11:09,740
I don't have any desire
to go out and rape anybody.

1129
01:11:09,787 --> 01:11:11,397
I don't even want
to get into a fight."

1130
01:11:16,010 --> 01:11:17,450
St. -
Ending marijuana prohibition

1131
01:11:17,490 --> 01:11:20,150
is incredibly beneficial
for everybody in society,

1132
01:11:20,188 --> 01:11:22,798
except for the entities
who have been making money

1133
01:11:22,843 --> 01:11:25,413
off of its prohibition
for the last 70 years --

1134
01:11:25,455 --> 01:11:27,455
law enforcement,
private prisons,

1135
01:11:27,500 --> 01:11:29,460
pharmaceutical companies.

1136
01:11:33,027 --> 01:11:36,377
All of them, their business
models are predicated

1137
01:11:36,422 --> 01:11:38,472
on marijuana being illegal.

1138
01:11:41,732 --> 01:11:45,042
On average, 700,000 Americans
are arrested every year

1139
01:11:45,083 --> 01:11:46,653
on marijuana charges.

1140
01:11:46,693 --> 01:11:48,783
...2, 1!

1141
01:11:48,826 --> 01:11:51,216
Happy New Year!

1142
01:11:54,875 --> 01:11:57,695
Colorado becomes
the first state to legalize

1143
01:11:57,748 --> 01:11:59,398
recreational marijuana use.

1144
01:12:03,144 --> 01:12:05,324
This veteran of the war in Iraq

1145
01:12:05,364 --> 01:12:06,804
will make one
of the first legal

1146
01:12:06,844 --> 01:12:10,854
marijuana purchases
to treat his PTSD.

1147
01:12:10,891 --> 01:12:13,291
$59.74

1148
01:12:13,329 --> 01:12:16,239
Thank you very, very much.

1149
01:12:16,288 --> 01:12:18,378
I got some legal weed!

1150
01:12:22,555 --> 01:12:24,945
I'm in line to buy
something legal.

1151
01:12:24,992 --> 01:12:26,912
Let's do this.
That's all I'm saying.

1152
01:12:26,951 --> 01:12:28,391
Let's do this.

1153
01:12:35,438 --> 01:12:38,788
Now legal in 28 states,

1154
01:12:38,832 --> 01:12:41,402
legalization is having
major implications

1155
01:12:41,444 --> 01:12:43,714
for the Mexican cartels.

1156
01:12:43,750 --> 01:12:45,450
There you are.

1157
01:12:52,977 --> 01:12:54,757
If you go to Mexico,

1158
01:12:54,805 --> 01:12:56,145
then the single biggest threat

1159
01:12:56,197 --> 01:12:57,627
that the cartels face
at the moment

1160
01:12:57,677 --> 01:12:59,807
to their business
is legalization.

1161
01:13:03,770 --> 01:13:06,290
They now face
a very powerful competitor

1162
01:13:06,338 --> 01:13:08,168
in the form of legal businesses.

1163
01:13:08,209 --> 01:13:10,039
And if you go to a state
like Colorado

1164
01:13:10,081 --> 01:13:12,001
where the stuff's been legal now
for some years,

1165
01:13:12,039 --> 01:13:14,169
it's an incredibly
sophisticated business.

1166
01:13:14,215 --> 01:13:15,565
It's really professional.

1167
01:13:21,179 --> 01:13:25,919
The Sinaloa Cartel
doesn't do chocolate brownies.

1168
01:13:25,966 --> 01:13:28,226
If you can take
this gigantic market

1169
01:13:28,273 --> 01:13:30,363
out of the hands of criminals

1170
01:13:30,406 --> 01:13:34,316
and put it in the hands of
law-abiding, taxpaying people,

1171
01:13:34,366 --> 01:13:36,586
that's much more attractive
to the government.

1172
01:13:36,629 --> 01:13:38,459
And ultimately
it leads to a market

1173
01:13:38,501 --> 01:13:41,591
which is better regulated,
safer, and far less criminal.

1174
01:13:47,684 --> 01:13:50,694
Unlike the legal
operations in the north,

1175
01:13:50,730 --> 01:13:56,080
the Sinaloa kingpin, El Chapo,
operates in the shadows.

1176
01:13:56,127 --> 01:13:58,087
Over the last decade,
he's played

1177
01:13:58,129 --> 01:14:00,959
an elaborate game
of cat-and-mouse,

1178
01:14:01,001 --> 01:14:04,271
always staying one step
ahead of the authorities.

1179
01:14:09,357 --> 01:14:13,487
Intelligence gathered
from informants and wiretaps

1180
01:14:13,536 --> 01:14:17,706
leads authorities
to this seaside condo.

1181
01:14:17,757 --> 01:14:21,537
Without a single shot fired...

1182
01:14:21,587 --> 01:14:24,287
El Chapo is finally captured.

1183
01:14:31,336 --> 01:14:34,506
He's sent to Mexico's
most secure prison.

1184
01:14:37,734 --> 01:14:41,434
Truth of the matter is that
the huge amounts of money

1185
01:14:41,477 --> 01:14:45,867
that are generated by
the illegal drug traffic world

1186
01:14:45,916 --> 01:14:49,956
has corrupted law enforcement
and the prison authorities.

1187
01:14:50,007 --> 01:14:52,357
Suddenly Chapo's guys
come along and say,

1188
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:55,880
"Well, here's 150 grand,
200 grand to look the other way

1189
01:14:55,926 --> 01:14:58,796
while we build this tunnel,
or you're gonna die."

1190
01:14:58,842 --> 01:15:01,412
And, you know, people are
going to take the money.

1191
01:15:12,159 --> 01:15:14,029
The Sinaloa Cartel digs

1192
01:15:14,074 --> 01:15:18,514
a mile-long tunnel directly
to El Chapo's cell.

1193
01:15:18,557 --> 01:15:20,387
Looked like
he's gonna take a shower

1194
01:15:20,428 --> 01:15:24,558
and disappear into a tunnel
that had a motorcycle in it.

1195
01:15:30,874 --> 01:15:33,574
Next thing you know,
Chapo disappears and he's gone.

1196
01:15:44,235 --> 01:15:47,665
While in hiding,
El Chapo makes a bold move,

1197
01:15:47,717 --> 01:15:50,847
persuading Mexican soap opera
star Kate del Castillo

1198
01:15:50,894 --> 01:15:54,554
to introduce him
to actor Sean Penn.

1199
01:15:54,593 --> 01:15:57,553
The hope -- a collaboration
on his life story.

1200
01:16:08,433 --> 01:16:12,133
But Penn and del Castillo don't
realize they're being watched.

1201
01:16:12,176 --> 01:16:15,656
Mexican intelligence is
tracking their every move.

1202
01:16:22,839 --> 01:16:25,619
After months
of meticulous tracking,

1203
01:16:25,668 --> 01:16:29,448
the Mexican military zero in
on a coastal town in Sinaloa,

1204
01:16:29,497 --> 01:16:31,627
El Chapo's home state.

1205
01:16:37,593 --> 01:16:40,813
Officials spot a van they
believe to belong to the cartel

1206
01:16:40,857 --> 01:16:43,727
picking up a large late-night
order of tacos.

1207
01:16:43,773 --> 01:16:47,173
The hunch -- the tacos
are for El Chapo.

1208
01:16:50,693 --> 01:16:53,653
With the alleged support
of the U.S. Delta Force,

1209
01:16:53,696 --> 01:16:57,526
the Mexican special forces
carry out Operation Black Swan.

1210
01:18:23,002 --> 01:18:26,312
Five cartel gunmen are dead.

1211
01:18:26,353 --> 01:18:28,833
But El Chapo escapes
through a hidden tunnel

1212
01:18:28,878 --> 01:18:33,318
in a closet connected
to the city sewer system.

1213
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:36,580
He stole a car
and he took off.

1214
01:18:36,624 --> 01:18:39,584
When they caught him, he said,
"Look, I'm gonna give you money.

1215
01:18:39,627 --> 01:18:41,327
I'll give you jobs.

1216
01:18:41,368 --> 01:18:44,588
I'll take good care
of all of you."

1217
01:18:44,632 --> 01:18:47,162
But the Mexican
soldiers refuse the bribe

1218
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:50,200
and take Joaquín Guzmán
into custody.

1219
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:56,340
With evidence from the Flores
brothers' wiretapped calls,

1220
01:18:56,383 --> 01:19:00,393
El Chapo is extradited
to New York.

1221
01:19:00,431 --> 01:19:05,261
El Chapo is now in the most
famous jail in the world,

1222
01:19:05,305 --> 01:19:06,995
the Metropolitan
Correctional Center,

1223
01:19:07,046 --> 01:19:08,436
the Criminal Hilton,

1224
01:19:08,482 --> 01:19:11,182
to bow down before
the almighty power

1225
01:19:11,224 --> 01:19:14,184
of the American
criminal justice system.

1226
01:19:14,227 --> 01:19:17,797
And in that building,
you have every single criminal

1227
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,840
of every kind of stripe,
from terrorists

1228
01:19:20,886 --> 01:19:23,886
to rogue CIA agents

1229
01:19:23,933 --> 01:19:27,853
to drug lords to mafia bosses.

1230
01:19:31,462 --> 01:19:33,202
And in his absence,

1231
01:19:33,246 --> 01:19:38,636
the Sinaloa Cartel
continues to operate.

1232
01:19:38,686 --> 01:19:41,986
The U.S. government,
when it makes a seizure

1233
01:19:42,038 --> 01:19:46,518
or takes out a notorious,
high-profile drug trafficker,

1234
01:19:46,564 --> 01:19:48,834
it's never eliminating
the problem.

1235
01:19:48,871 --> 01:19:53,401
It's just giving a promotion
to somebody else.

1236
01:19:53,440 --> 01:19:58,710
It's great for the
American public appetite for --

1237
01:19:58,750 --> 01:20:00,880
for these kind of
super villains,

1238
01:20:00,926 --> 01:20:03,796
to have guys like El Chapo
or Pablo Escobar,

1239
01:20:03,842 --> 01:20:06,322
to point their finger at
and say, "This is a bad guy."

1240
01:20:06,366 --> 01:20:08,886
You lock Chapo up,
you lock Escobar up,

1241
01:20:08,934 --> 01:20:10,764
you kill 'em, whatever you do,

1242
01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:12,806
somebody else is gonna be there
to take their place.

1243
01:20:12,851 --> 01:20:14,851
Maybe 30 guys are there
to take their place.

1244
01:20:14,897 --> 01:20:17,637
It doesn't stop anything.

1245
01:20:17,682 --> 01:20:21,432
It just gives the public
another anti-hero

1246
01:20:21,468 --> 01:20:23,728
or bad guy to focus on.

1247
01:20:31,522 --> 01:20:33,742
911. What is your emergency?

1248
01:20:33,785 --> 01:20:36,085
I need -- I need
an ambulance right away.

1249
01:20:36,135 --> 01:20:37,915
My son just overdosed
on heroin.

1250
01:20:37,963 --> 01:20:39,843
-What's your address --
-Please!

1251
01:20:39,878 --> 01:20:43,798
He's unconscious.
Please hurry!

1252
01:20:53,283 --> 01:20:54,723
I think in future,

1253
01:20:54,762 --> 01:20:57,162
when people look back
at the War on Drugs,

1254
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:58,590
they'll see one of the great

1255
01:20:58,636 --> 01:21:00,766
public policy failures
of our time.

1256
01:21:03,206 --> 01:21:07,246
So much money has been spent
and so much violence done,

1257
01:21:07,297 --> 01:21:09,597
all for such little gain.

1258
01:21:15,392 --> 01:21:19,922
America's public enemy
number one in the United states

1259
01:21:19,962 --> 01:21:21,492
is drug abuse.

1260
01:21:23,182 --> 01:21:25,842
The U.S. government
has always had

1261
01:21:25,881 --> 01:21:29,411
a hypocritical relationship
to drugs.

1262
01:21:29,449 --> 01:21:32,669
On the one hand,
it uses drug dealers

1263
01:21:32,713 --> 01:21:34,983
as part of its foreign policy.

1264
01:21:35,020 --> 01:21:37,680
What will you do
when someone offers you drugs?

1265
01:21:37,718 --> 01:21:40,108
Just say no!

1266
01:21:40,156 --> 01:21:42,106
And then domestically,

1267
01:21:42,158 --> 01:21:46,288
it has built up an entire system
of social control

1268
01:21:46,336 --> 01:21:49,296
around the use of these drugs.

1269
01:21:51,254 --> 01:21:55,524
The war on drugs,
it's a war on poor people.

1270
01:21:55,562 --> 01:21:57,352
It's a means of dehumanizing

1271
01:21:57,390 --> 01:22:00,960
large segments of
the American population

1272
01:22:01,003 --> 01:22:03,613
George H.W. Bush:
Some think there won't be room
for them in jail

1273
01:22:03,657 --> 01:22:04,827
We'll make room.

1274
01:22:10,403 --> 01:22:14,973
The War on Drugs
has achieved none of its ends.

1275
01:22:15,017 --> 01:22:16,497
But the one thing it has done

1276
01:22:16,540 --> 01:22:18,890
is it increased the power
of its institutions

1277
01:22:18,934 --> 01:22:22,294
and the laws of the state...

1278
01:22:22,328 --> 01:22:25,108
its powers to search
Americans' homes,

1279
01:22:25,157 --> 01:22:26,937
to do surveillance.

1280
01:22:26,985 --> 01:22:30,465
That is the only tangible
victory of the War on Drugs

1281
01:22:30,510 --> 01:22:33,430
is to have made
the state stronger.

1282
01:22:33,470 --> 01:22:36,340
You will be put away
and put away for good.

1283
01:22:36,386 --> 01:22:39,036
Three strikes, and you are out.

1284
01:22:43,132 --> 01:22:46,532
The country was given a choice,

1285
01:22:46,570 --> 01:22:49,700
and what happened was it doubled
down on the War on Drugs.

1286
01:22:49,747 --> 01:22:51,227
Move, move.

1287
01:22:56,188 --> 01:22:58,578
We have spent
trillions of dollars

1288
01:22:58,625 --> 01:23:00,925
over the decades, trillions,

1289
01:23:00,976 --> 01:23:02,976
with no positive results.

1290
01:23:03,021 --> 01:23:05,151
Walk backwards,
backwards.

1291
01:23:05,197 --> 01:23:07,547
Backwards. Stop.

1292
01:23:07,591 --> 01:23:11,121
The only thing it created
was mass incarceration.

1293
01:23:18,689 --> 01:23:20,519
No individual
in the United States

1294
01:23:20,560 --> 01:23:23,260
can say, "Thank you, America,
for your War on Drugs.

1295
01:23:23,302 --> 01:23:27,002
You saved my child."

1296
01:23:27,045 --> 01:23:29,435
Nobody really wants
to be addicted to drugs.

1297
01:23:29,482 --> 01:23:31,622
It's a terrible way of life.

1298
01:23:31,658 --> 01:23:34,358
Law enforcement
is not the answer.

1299
01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:40,100
The only solution is to treat it
as a social and health problem.

1300
01:23:40,145 --> 01:23:43,055
People who get in trouble
with drugs need to be helped.

1301
01:23:43,105 --> 01:23:45,885
They have a medical condition.

1302
01:23:45,933 --> 01:23:48,073
And I think a lot of things
really need to change.

1303
01:23:48,110 --> 01:23:51,240
Drug use is not a war you win.

1304
01:23:51,287 --> 01:23:54,027
The reality
is that no one in power

1305
01:23:54,072 --> 01:23:56,602
ever took this War on Drugs
seriously.

1306
01:23:56,640 --> 01:23:58,950
They used it for
political purposes.

1307
01:23:58,990 --> 01:24:01,340
It's an ugly truth.

1308
01:24:01,384 --> 01:24:03,784
Drugs are menacing our society.

1309
01:24:03,821 --> 01:24:05,741
They're killing our children.

1310
01:24:05,779 --> 01:24:07,129
George H.W. Bush:
I say that legalization

1311
01:24:07,172 --> 01:24:09,352
is just another word
for surrender,

1312
01:24:09,392 --> 01:24:12,792
and surrender
is not in our vocabulary.

1313
01:24:12,830 --> 01:24:15,140
We have just begun the job,

1314
01:24:15,180 --> 01:24:19,100
and we do not intend to stop
until we have finished.

1315
01:24:19,141 --> 01:24:23,011
When we fight drugs,
we fight the War on Terror.

1316
01:24:28,367 --> 01:24:29,757
I think
it's politically very difficult

1317
01:24:29,803 --> 01:24:31,813
for politicians
to talk sense about drugs

1318
01:24:31,849 --> 01:24:33,719
while they're still in office.

1319
01:24:33,764 --> 01:24:35,814
And what we're seeing is
a growing number of people

1320
01:24:35,853 --> 01:24:40,083
who come out and admit
that the war is failing.

1321
01:24:40,118 --> 01:24:42,288
I signed a bill that
made the problem worse.

1322
01:24:42,338 --> 01:24:45,908
We had a lot of people locked up
for way too long.

1323
01:24:45,950 --> 01:24:49,040
And that was overdone.
We were wrong about that.

1324
01:24:49,084 --> 01:24:52,264
The President
of the United States.

1325
01:24:55,612 --> 01:24:58,622
Finding sitting presidents
who are still in office

1326
01:24:58,658 --> 01:25:02,398
and who still have the power
to change things is much harder.

1327
01:25:02,445 --> 01:25:05,095
To protect our citizens,
I have directed the departments

1328
01:25:05,143 --> 01:25:07,413
of Homeland Security
and Justice,

1329
01:25:07,450 --> 01:25:09,450
along with
the Department of State

1330
01:25:09,495 --> 01:25:11,625
and the Director
of National Intelligence,

1331
01:25:11,671 --> 01:25:14,851
to coordinate
an aggressive strategy

1332
01:25:14,892 --> 01:25:17,202
to dismantle
the criminal cartels

1333
01:25:17,242 --> 01:25:21,992
that have spread
all across our nation.

1334
01:25:26,382 --> 01:25:28,562
Bellum se ipsum alet.

1335
01:25:28,601 --> 01:25:32,781
And it translates as,
"War feeds itself."

1336
01:25:32,823 --> 01:25:35,093
Police! Police!
Search warrant!

1337
01:25:37,741 --> 01:25:43,181
Once you create the enemy,
once you build the institutions,

1338
01:25:43,225 --> 01:25:46,395
it will keep
perpetuating itself forever.