Tortous.

Before we start, I just need to tell you that this episode includes an incident of anti-Semitism.

It also includes a description of torture.

Only an idiot wouldn't know why Iran wanted so many barrels, 55 gallon drums of thiodey glyco.

Special agent Dennis Bass worked for the Baltimore Customs Office for 25 years.

He put a lot of criminals behind bars during that time, a lot of big time drug dealers and traffickers.

And I think it's fair to say he doesn't have much time for people who break the law. He prided himself on his ability to follow

through, but ultimately he just wanted the job done, so he was perfectly happy to help law enforcement officials elsewhere

to close a case.

Look what happened with Franz von Enron.

We were never able to get him here to the US. Franz Van Anrat.

Franz Van Anrat, the guy who supplied Saddam Hussein with chemicals used to make mustard

gas. He hid from Dennis Bass in Baghdad for more than a decade.

When he returned home to the Netherlands, the US authorities didn't need to go after him because Dutch prosecutors charged him with

complicity in war crimes.

And they were so incensed by what he did.

They went above and beyond. While the check fled, he went back to Germany and they didn't do a thing to him.

Nothing.

Dennis Bass is disappointed that the Germans didn't take the same approach towards Peter Valaisechek, who'd pleaded guilty but fled before he could be sentenced. But the thing is, the two cases aren't

exactly equivalent. Franz Van Anrat's chemicals had helped create mustard gas which was shown to have killed people.

Peter Vala's chemicals may well have been used by the Iranians, but there's no definitive

evidence to prove it. It makes no difference. The crimes that both

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