Tim Golden

How the most significant corruption case against a Mexican official fell apart.

In what may prove to be one of the more remarkable intelligence failures of the drug war, the U.S. missed warnings that Genaro García Luna, the chief architect of Mexico’s fight against organized crime, could be in league with the criminals.

Twenty years after the Sept. 11 attacks, declassified FBI documents have changed a big piece of the story about possible Saudi government help to the hijackers. Families of the victims want more information.

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Witnesses told the DEA that the money was provided in return for a promise that a future López Obrador government would tolerate the cartel’s operations.

Documents and interviews show that Mexican traffickers extradited to the U.S. continued to tell of drug money sent to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s 2006 campaign, but those allegations were not pursued.

Documents obtained by ProPublica show how the DEA risked a political furor to try to penetrate López Obrador’s campaign. The 2010 probe found no proof of his involvement in cartel donations before it was shut down.

Documentos obtenidos por ProPublica muestran como la DEA se arriesgó a crear un furor político al investigar la campaña de López Obrador. Antes de ser clausurada, la investigación del 2010 no encontró pruebas de que él estuviera involucrado en las donaciones del cártel.

Newly revealed information also raises questions about whether the FBI and CIA mishandled or downplayed evidence of the kingdom’s possible ties to the plotters.

As the community of Pacific Palisades, California, burns, ProPublica’s Tim Golden reflects on how the blaze will transform his hometown.