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Even when Mena's gun-running operation was shut down after 1986, Mena continued to be used for illegal narcotics smuggling into the United States and the profits were pocketed by locals under then Governor [[Bill Clinton]].<ref>http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2016/08/26/the-boys-on-the-tracks-are-back</ref> In 1989 Clinton received petitions from Arkansas citizens demanding he convene a state grand jury and investigate Mena.<ref>[http://bondiviewertest.azurewebsites.net/DataView/Article/HT?issueKey=19920501&articleKey=19920501021 Clinton Turned Blind Eye to Arkansas Contra Connections], ''High Times'', May 1992, p. 21</ref> Winston Bryant made Mena an issue in his successful bid for Arkansas [[Attorney General]] in 1990. A year later Bryant turned over state files involving Mena to Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, but Walsh did nothing with the reams of evidence.

Even when Mena's gun-running operation was shut down after 1986, Mena continued to be used for illegal narcotics smuggling into the United States and the profits were pocketed by locals under then Governor [[Bill Clinton]].<ref>http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2016/08/26/the-boys-on-the-tracks-are-back</ref> In 1989 Clinton received petitions from Arkansas citizens demanding he convene a state grand jury and investigate Mena.<ref>[http://bondiviewertest.azurewebsites.net/DataView/Article/HT?issueKey=19920501&articleKey=19920501021 Clinton Turned Blind Eye to Arkansas Contra Connections], ''High Times'', May 1992, p. 21</ref> Winston Bryant made Mena an issue in his successful bid for Arkansas [[Attorney General]] in 1990. A year later Bryant turned over state files involving Mena to Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, but Walsh did nothing with the reams of evidence.

==The fair-haired boy==

==Bill Clinton: the fair-haired boy==

By March 1986, the [[CIA]] had already decided to begin extricating itself from [[Bill Clinton]]'s Arkansas and move the operation to [[Mexico]] largely based upon two factors (1) the bust of Clinton's brother Roger and others close to Clinton on [[cocaine]] charges, and (2) the looting of cash, which was the government's property, by the Clinton's Arkansas political machine. A general air of sloppiness and corruption pervaded the Clinton end of the operation.

By March 1986, the [[CIA]] had already decided to begin extricating itself from [[Bill Clinton]]'s Arkansas and move the operation to [[Mexico]] largely based upon two factors (1) the bust of Clinton's brother Roger and others close to Clinton on [[cocaine]] charges, and (2) the looting of cash, which was the government's property, by the Clinton's Arkansas political machine. A general air of sloppiness and corruption pervaded the Clinton end of the operation.