My thoughts are that the government and "media" have become way too comfortable lying to the American People, broken campaign promise used to be a joke. Now they lie about what is safe/ not-safe, good for us/ not-good for us. They lie with impunity about what is in the laws they pass and about every aspect of their day-to-day lives.
Although I think the article is over the top in linking too many points together, but I do not think it is unreasonable to assume this government would do at least some of what is charged in the story; I'll site operation gun runner as example 1, and if this new cocaine for information story is true that is example number 2.