Friends in low places

For some reason the whole Dallas Austin thing really pissed the Weasel off, it's not that he can't accept the realities of the situation, to be honest the most surprising thing was that it made the news at all, it's just that the blatant immediate release makes the entire place look like some star struck sycophantic fan.
The Weasel is aware that there were political pressures and from some surprising directions (why a US senator found the need to get involved with some dude carrying Bolivian marching powder is beyond reason) but it still leaves a bad taste especially when you read of some poor sod caught at the airport with exactly the same quantity of the same drug who now has gone down for 4 years.

No Wasta, no Iraqi businessman friend, no immediate pardon and little credibility for the UAE I'm afraid.