English transcript

In 1982, cocaine trafficker Barry Seal set up one of the largest drug smuggling operations

in the United States in Mena, Arkansas, under the approving eye of Governor Bill Clinton.

Barry Seal was a... was a drug smuggler.

And he tried to set it up in his home state of Louisiana.

But they wouldn't let him.

He had to come to a state that had a sleazy governor hooked on cocaine.

There were a hundred million a month in cocaine coming in and out of Mena, Arkansas.

They had a problem. They were doing so much money and cocaine, a hundred million.

You in... you create a problem in a little state like Arkansas. How do you clean one hundred million dollars a month?

For about two months, I watched accounts accumulate money,

and at the end of the month, they zero balanced. They're laundering drug money.

In addition to the operations at Mena, small clearings and other parts of the state

were used as drop points for money and cocaine.

They got special, uh... cargo doors installed in the side

without FAA permission, uh, so that these doors could be opened in flight.

They'd pull in the slide back and... and the cocaine could be dropped out the side in flight.

I've snuck around, crawled through the bushes,

thinking that I'd really have to hide to see them unloading the dope.

Didn't have to. You could walk right up to the airport and they'd unload it right in front of you.

They didn't care.

Clinton had integrated a number of corrupt cops, judges, and politicians

into high-level positions to ensure the continued success of the drug smuggling, money laundering operations.

For 15 years, I did not encounter anything like the corruption which I encountered after the Mena investigation.

All of this drug running, all of the trafficking of drugs, sending them all over the nation,

came out of little Mena, Arkansas.

Right under the nose of little Governor Billy Clinton.

Bill Clinton controlled the legal system. He controlled the judges.

He controlled the attorneys. He controlled the banks.

It's just a small state, a one-party state.

What tends to happen in small states like that, I think,

is the longer the person remains governor...

that, uh, the greater the abuses are.