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RED OCTOBER DEBRIEFING 40,000 FEET: IN RIO, THEY ARRESTED THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO DO THE ARRESTING
My read, up front: the crackdown Iβve been tracking has turned on the people who held the keys, and this time it happened in Brazil.
On Thursday, Brazilβs Federal Police arrested the man who used to run Rio de Janeiroβs entire police force. Four police inspectors were taken with him, along with a politician elected to the state assembly just eleven days earlier.
The case started small. Last December, investigators noticed that details of a police raid had leaked to Comando Vermelho, Rioβs largest gang. They followed the leak and arrested the head of the state legislature. His fellow lawmakers voted to set him free five days later.
The investigators kept going anyway. Eight phases later, they say theyβve found what the leak was protecting: a network of gas stations moving billions through the economy for six years. A court shut down more than a hundred of those businesses in one order. In one inspectorβs mansion, police found cash stacked in the wine cellar.
Now zoom out. This month alone Iβve logged a CIA officer admitting he gave away a secret source. Germany arrested its own former spy chief. China is investigating the men who used to run its anti-corruption machine. Saudi Arabia arrests its own officials every month. Now Brazil has arrested a former police chief.
Itβs the same move every time. First they find the money. Then they shut down the businesses moving it. Then they go after the people who were protecting it.
But look at it from 40,000 feet. In the U.S., China, Germany, Saudi Arabia and now Brazil, rival governments that agree on almost nothing are all doing the same thing at the same time: cleaning out their own house.
Timelines. Patterns. Their words, not mine. All I did was read the receipts.
I am the guy on the couch, and you have been debriefed.
https://i.fixupx.com/TheDebriefing17/status/2111044640560324894
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