There are very few times in your life when you get the chance to participate in an interview with the actual participants in events that ripple through our political ecosystem for decades that have a lasting impact on the world as we know it. On Friday, August 22, 2008, I had the opportunity to do just that.when Judge Douglas McCullough and Clarence Briggs were guest and host on High Impact with Clarence Briggs.

Doug McCullough is currently a N.C. Court of Appeals Judge. Prior to this, he spent 30-plus years in law, serving on both sides of the bench. During the 1980’s, McCullough was a federal prosecutor in Raleigh, N.C., back when drug smuggling off the N.C. coast was at its height. The book Sea of Greed, is the account of the drug seizures that eventually led to the takedown of Panama’s notorious dictator, Manuel Noriega.

When the Coast Guard hailed a Gulf Coast shrimp trawler near Cape Lookout, NC on the 4th of July weekend, 1982, the routine stop set in motion a chain-of-events that ended with the U.S. invasion of Panama, overthrow of dictator Manuel Noriega, and one of the biggest drug busts in America’s history.

Now more than 25 years later, the full story is revealed in a gripping true-life account by the man who brought the drug lord to justice.

J. Douglas McCullough, the U.S. attorney who unraveled the Cayman Island cartel, reveals never-before-known facts of the case that began on the docks of the historic fishing village of Beaufort, NC when authorities found a shrimp boat full of marijuana.

Clarence Briggs served his country as an Infantry Officer in the United States Army and rose to the rank of Major. At the time of the invasion of Panama he was an executive officer in the 504 Parachute Infantry Regiment 82 nd Airborne Division, which was part of the leading edge of the US invasion and capture of Manuel Noriega then President / Dictator of Panama. Listen to the Interview with Judge McCullough, Clarence Briggs and Al Whitfield of http://news.fayetteville.net/pages/Radio-Show.html