HOW THE U.S. TRIGGERED A MASSACRE IN MEXICO

Gist:

“ It began in the United States, when the Drug Enforcement Administration scored an unexpected coup. An agent persuaded a high-level Zetas operative to hand over the trackable cellphone identification numbers for two of the cartel’s most wanted kingpins, Miguel Ángel Treviño and his ​brother Omar.

Then the DEA took a gamble. It shared the intelligence with a Mexican federal police unit that has long had problems with leaks — even though its members had been trained and vetted by the DEA. Almost immediately, the Treviños learned they’d been betrayed. The brothers set out to exact vengeance against the presumed snitches, their families and anyone remotely connected to them.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4842526&forum_id=2)#42520138)

Our hearts go out to those families. They’re victims, unfortunately, of the violence perpetrated by the Treviño brothers and the Zetas. But this is not a story where the DEA has blood on its hands."

the mental gymnastics these civil servants use to justify their "work" is crazy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4842526&forum_id=2)#42520549)

Gov't official: "Oh, we have intel on the cartels, but we can't share it with Mexico because it will just leak and a bunch of people will be murdered."

Media: ***SEVEN DAYS OF OUTRAGE***

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4842526&forum_id=2)#42522576)

Basic network analysis could probably find kingpins if you start with few known low level people. Let alone the crazy shit we can do monitoring every form of electronic communications.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4842526&forum_id=2)#42522650)

"Oh, weird that the narco leader got blown up. Sorry for your loss. That was a really big explosion, maybe it was a gas leak?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4842526&forum_id=2)#42522673)

If you're careful, then for now you can still evade the surveillance capabilities of a state level actor. But the target only has to fuck up one time and inadvertently communicate in a non-secure way, then the whole thing unravels. What's more, the fuck up can also come from some other person messaging them. Narco careers can last decades, and nobody can be perfect every time. Just like sometimes lawfags make a stupid mistake and send a .doc when they meant to send a .pdf or whatever the fuck, a mistake will also inevitably occur in the proximity of the kingpins. It's just a matter of the $ and manpower to actually give things a close look.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4842526&forum_id=2)#42522786)

- Datamining cell tower connections and usage patterns: "Wow, this subset of phones that frequently connect to towers in the HQ area light up when we raid a major shipment!"

- Looking at the IMEIs connecting and scrutinizing make/model/voice or data usage: "Wow, a ton of people in this town use blackberries, i haven't seen one used by a normal person in 10 years!"

- Blackberry is suspected to collaborate with friendly governments, even if the cartels are setting up their own enterprise servers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4842526&forum_id=2)#42523067)