Sean Penn's Amazing Capture

The Intercept has an article detailing all of the "mistakes" Sean Penn makes in his Rolling Stone article about meeting with El Chapo, so that actual journalists can see what not to do if they want to protect their source's anonymity and location.  Or, as I like to call it: How you know that Sean Penn was working with the DEA/CIA/FBI the whole time.

Also, Marcy Wheeler at Emptywheel.net brings up a point to lend credence to that claim: namely, Penn agrees to what he claims is El Chapo's request not to print the names of "a host of corrupt major corporations" ... "several through which his money has been laundered, and who take their own cynical slice of the narco pie."

If Penn is sincere in his stated desire to end the war on drugs, ending the profits for American banks tied to illicit trafficking would need to be one of the first steps.

But he doesn’t name those companies that are laundering Chapo’s money, which will continue to be laundering Sinaloa cartel money even as Guzmán gets removed from the network.

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But it’s funny how the press, too, seems uninterested in learning the names of the banks that continue to prop up both our own country’s power structure as well as facilitate traffickers like Guzmán.

  Emptywheel