Hopsicker can be a mixed bag. We haven't heard from him for a while and he seemed to have backed off some of his initial research, such as on Atta's girlfriend. That said, I think he has done a lot to show that the patsies were probably running drugs.

http://www.madcowprod.com/03082010.htm
60 years of drug trafficking at the Venice Municipal Airport
A new multi-part series highlighting current events in Venice Florida

March 8, 2010
by Daniel Hopsicker

An investigation into suspicious circumstances surrounding the sale of the former Huffman Aviation has unearthed an explosive secret at the heart of an otherwise unremarkable aviation facility.

Almost since its inception, the specter of heroin trafficking has hung over the airfield which would later become the Venice Municipal Airport.