Okay, we are live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey investigates on today's show. I have a very special guest. He's just published a new book. I think it's coming out on Amazon this week. If you're watching this on my three YouTube channels, X or Rumble, you'll see the title and the cover. It is the great pretense. A tour through the Boneyard of the CIA's War Four

Drugs. So it's not War on Drugs, it's War for Drugs, which is actually far more accurate.

If you know, recent and past history of the United States, the timing is really exceptional

because he writes a lot about the cartels and the border and the trafficking south to north.

And we've just had this huge upheaval in Mexico, which looks kind of like a civil war.

I mean, I've seen a lot of my social media.

I have a lot of friends, actually, were in Puerto, via to, well, social media friends. And a lot of video came forth. So I'm seeing a lot of video actually were important via well social media friends and a lot of video came

forth so I'm seeing a lot of video and shutdowns and fires and things like that but uh bill is

where has worked as an investigative reporter and editor covering the war on drugs since the 80s so

long time following the money, murdered and

injustice in American's urban neighborhoods and along the U.S.-Mexico border and beyond.

So there's a lot to talk about drugs is still an issue.

They've changed, crack, Coke to crack maybe, to fentanyl, and then all of, en masse, and then

all of the public.

It's really an extraordinary story but he can talk

more about that so bill conroy welcome welcome to the show i'm glad to be here thanks for thanks for

having me awesome so for people who haven't heard your name not familiar with your work or not familiar

with this book maybe you can talk about your career your background your, and what led up to the publication of the great pretense.

Yeah, I've got about 40 years as a journalist working mostly either as an editor-in-chief, managing editor or staff reporter, depending on the location.

So I worked mainstream publications

to make, you know, to make a paycheck because, and a lot of it was business journalism, right?

I mean, most of it was. And I moved to San Antonio like in the early 90s. And they moved me around the country in order to get the

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