Federal agents recently raided the home of Paul Campo. Campo is no street criminal; a former high-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official, once responsible for overseeing financial investigations under former President Obama, he reportedly laundered millions for Mexico’s CJNG cartel, designated this year as a foreign “terrorist” organization.

According to prosecutors, Campo converted cash into digital assets for the cartel and agreed to move more than $12 million. He has also been indicted on other charges such as conspiracy to engage in narcoterrorism and to distribute cocaine in New York City. Campo still holds a security clearance. One might recall that the Washington Post also reported how internal US legislation weakened DEA authority under the same Obama presidency.

Campo’s case is far from an anomaly, though. In fact, it fits into a pattern too consistent to dismiss as coincidence. Just days earlier, US President Donald Trump was under scrutiny for preparing a full pardon for Juan Orlando Hernandez, former president of Honduras, convicted in the US for helping flood American streets with over 400 tons of cocaine. Hernandez was a darling of Washington’s counter-narcotics diplomacy, applauded by US officials while reportedly running one of the most efficient drug pipelines into North America. In other words, the last couple of weeks in the US saw a Democrat administration DEA financial chief caught for laundering cartel money plus an US-backed narco-president receiving a Republican pardon.

In any case, Hernandez is far from being the only major drug-dealing figure recently pardoned. Trump has also pardoned: “Silk........

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