The failures of government get plenty of ink (deservedly and necessarily). But what about the successes of government? When I was quite young, I learned something about the CIA: Its failures are well publicized. Its successes are often utterly unknown. It has to be that way.

Well, three cheers for our boys (and girls) in HSI and the FBI. (Those first initials stand for “Homeland Security Investigations.”) A report in today’s Wall Street Journal begins,

Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was arrested by U.S. agents Thursday after a high-ranking Sinaloa cartel member tricked him into flying to Texas, Mexican and U.S. officials said.

There was a bonus:

Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was on the same plane and also arrested upon landing . . .

One more paragraph:

Zambada, 76, co-founded the Sinaloa cartel three decades ago with the elder Guzmán. He leads a faction of the cartel that is considered the leading smuggler of fentanyl into the U.S.

Jennifer Griffin, the chief national-security correspondent for Fox News, had a striking observation: “This is the equivalent of getting Bin Laden when it comes to the war against fentanyl.”

Said the attorney general, Merrick Garland, “Fentanyl is the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, and the Justice Department will not rest until every single cartel leader, member, and associate responsible for poisoning our communities is held accountable.”

Good. And congrats. And thanks.

P.S. Some other good news came earlier this month: “Justice Department Leads Efforts Among Federal, International, and Private Sector Partners to Disrupt Covert Russian Government-Operated Social Media Bot Farm.” That is the heading over a DoJ press release, here. Good news, yes, and a cracking good tale, too.

In my opinion, this is the kind of thing that ought to make people chant “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” (But does it?)