Wednesday, 15 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressional House Oversight Committee lawmakers at a hearing yesterday excoriated DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart disclosing greatly expanded revelations from and commencing a Congressional investigation based on a Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) report released last month detailing extensive DEA agent misconduct earlier reported here now said to extend back to 2001 and not only including drug cartel hosted sex parties at which agents checked their weapons with some accepting cash, expensive gifts, and weapons from drug cartel members, but also at which agents had their laptop computers and other electronic devices present and which included a newly reported but unverified account of a DEA Assistant Regional Administrator soliciting prostitutes to attend a "going away" party.
Congressional lawmakers outraged over perceived light punishment of DEA agents suspended for two to ten days over recently reported misconduct by attending drug cartel hosted sex parties in Colombia included the House Oversight Committee's chairman declaring that agents who had repeatedly engaged in serious misconduct, including jeopardizing national security, should be stripped of their national security clearances and be fired over what the chairman called "truly breathtaking restlessness". DEA Administrator Leonhart responded to House Oversight Committee members that she had neither the power to revoke agents' national security clearances nor fire them for such misconduct.
"Honestly, what power do you have?" continued another Congressional committee member who then rebuked DEA Administrator Leonhart that "[y]ou have to work with agents over whom you can't discipline and have no control. What the hell do you get to do?" Administrator Leonhart apparently did not answer. The Ninth Amendment without editorial response to the preceding nor comment on any of the content of this post refers readers interested in more information on the above hearing including more details of the DOJ IG's Report on DEA agents' and officials' lengthy list of continuing abuses to the below link.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/us/anger-over-reports-of-dea-agents-parties-and-bewilderment-at-mild-penalties.html?ref=us&_r=0
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Congressional lawmakers outraged over perceived light punishment of DEA agents suspended for two to ten days over recently reported misconduct by attending drug cartel hosted sex parties in Colombia included the House Oversight Committee's chairman declaring that agents who had repeatedly engaged in serious misconduct, including jeopardizing national security, should be stripped of their national security clearances and be fired over what the chairman called "truly breathtaking restlessness". DEA Administrator Leonhart responded to House Oversight Committee members that she had neither the power to revoke agents' national security clearances nor fire them for such misconduct.
"Honestly, what power do you have?" continued another Congressional committee member who then rebuked DEA Administrator Leonhart that "[y]ou have to work with agents over whom you can't discipline and have no control. What the hell do you get to do?" Administrator Leonhart apparently did not answer. The Ninth Amendment without editorial response to the preceding nor comment on any of the content of this post refers readers interested in more information on the above hearing including more details of the DOJ IG's Report on DEA agents' and officials' lengthy list of continuing abuses to the below link.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/us/anger-over-reports-of-dea-agents-parties-and-bewilderment-at-mild-penalties.html?ref=us&_r=0
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
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