UPDATED - "Why can't the feds get these guys?" - New Times Reader about Arpaio and Hen
John GreenA bewildered New Times reader writes a letter to the editor asking how, despite volumes of evidence of wrongdoing, the feds can't nab Joe Arpaio and David Henderschott, his deputy and real power behind the MCSO.
Politics. No, not just 'Republican' or 'Democrat' politics - but the whole slimey system. It's like asking the James brothers and Dalton boys to investigate Billy the Kid.
Plenty of investigators want to go to work on these clowns but they're hampered by the parameters, restrictions, and budgets placed any investigation of political figures.
If investigators had carte-blanche very possibly Joe and Fat Boy - and a whole lot of other politicans - would be sweating blood.
Take a hike Juan,
The level of antipathy towards Sheriff Joe & his 2nd in command (Henderschott) is only rivaled by the ignorance of the facts and an unseemly lack of gratefulness for 2 guys that are "watching your backside" when lesser agencies (read Napolitano) cannot or will not. #1. Dave Henderschott is NOT "ex-CIA." I've known him right out of the police academy. So the whole "Fed = Fed" theory falls by the wayside of believing lies or making things up as you go. #2. Can't address your CIA ties to the Sheriff, but I know for a fact that Henderschott has served as interim Chief of Police in at least one municipality when they needed one. After years of routine police work, he rose to become a MCSO detective...where he risked his life in multiple undercover ops to infiltrate organized crime in the County. Under a previous Sheriff, he was tasked with oversight of the county jail...where he had to make tough calls to protect prison staff from harm. As he told me then:"These people have families that expect me to insure that they'll (safely) come home at the end of their shift." That is why I'm grateful for men like Dave & Joe. Obviously, the vast majority of voters are grateful too. What the folks who fail to produce a better candidate for Sheriff can't do at the ballot box, they now try to "un-elect" through smear campaigns and prodding the Feds to "do something." If Freedom's Phoenix is just some pseudo-Libertarian front for the anti-American, pro-anarchy ilk of the New Times, then we can expect to read the rhetoric of the previous Comments, but I happen to think that there are a boat-load of liberty-loving, patriotic, yes...even gun-toting Americans that follow this website. They are the inspiration for this Comment. Thank you real Arizonans!I noticed the most recent commenter addressed CIA connections and skipped over the DEA connections.
In south America and central America, do you presume a firewall exists between the two? Or do they operate essentially as one and the same.
Why do I mention central and south America? Because that's where these guys worked for the feds. Once a fed ALWAYS a fed.