Former Fed a Kidnapper? Or Whistleblower Framed?

Dear Colleague,

John Carman, a former federal law enforcement officer, was recently arrested in San Diego on the charge of kidnapping. However, there is more than meets the eye with this case.

The indictment of Carman - who has been a feisty whistleblower against drug-war corruption at Customs and other US agencies - is based on the testimony of a former US government informant that has already been convicted of lying to the FBI.

Bill Conroy, reporting for Narco News, digs beneath the surface of this story to uncover the possibility of whistleblower retaliation by the U.S. Customs Service.

Conroy writes:

"Carman was arrested in mid-March of this year on the basis of a sealed FBI complaint that accused him of conspiring to kidnap a U.S. citizen in a foreign country - Mexico. On the basis of that complaint, Carman was thrown in jail and denied bail. The actual indictment that was the basis for the charges against him was not issued until a couple weeks later - in early April of this year.

"...The FBI claims that Carman conspired with a Mexican citizen, identified only as a 'Source of Information' (SOI) in the indictment, to stage a 'mock' arrest of a San Diego woman while she was on vacation in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, with the goal of extorting ransom money in exchange for her release.

"...What the case really boils down to, it seems, is the word of the 'Source of Information' and how his communications with Carman are interpreted. Johnson argues that the emails and telephone conversations obtained by the FBI can all be viewed in the context of Carman's version of events, but that the government is choosing to portray those conversations as evidence of a kidnapping plot based on the word their 'source.'"

The rest of this article,

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2007/4/22/175253/157

along with a new addition about the viability of bio-fuels by Garret St. James, can be found online at Narco News:

http://www.narconews.com

From somewhere in a country called America,
David B. Briones
Webmaster
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com

© Scoop Media