Saturday, 18 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Outraged by responses received at last Tuesday's hearing from DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart as to her apparent complete lack of control of her own DEA agents in the face of disclosures that DEA agents largely without consequence supposedly compromised national security and the integrity of U.S. international law enforcement efforts for at least several years attending drug cartel hosted prostitute sex parties at which some DEA agents accepted gifts in the form of cash, expensive gifts and weapons including an AK-47 while checking their own weapons with drug cartel members or their representatives as well as bringing along laptop computers among other things, a "strong bipartisan majority" of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has issued an extraordinary statement of "no confidence" in DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart.
The American mainstream press by largely limiting itself to focusing on the screamingly apparently headline spectacular transgressions of a relatively small number of DEA agents basically cast as "party boys" and the harsh rote words of "outraged" lawmakers nevertheless still calling it a "good old boy culture" falling on the unfortunate present head of the DEA naturally unsupported by the White House quite obviously intentionally ignores the "elephant in the corner" (other than hinted at by the Washington Post blog link below) that is the mainstream press has failed to make the obvious observation that this entire episode in which DEA agents clearly routinely broke the law taking bribes, compromising legal cases and essentially "partying" with the drug cartels with whom they are supposed to be at "war" serves unequivocally to prove to anyone willing to open their eyes even halfway the endemic total bankruptcy and monumental failure of the 30-plus year phony "war on drugs" seemingly without end.
Let us call a spade a spade. If the DEA were prosecuting these DEA agents as ordinary domestic U.S. citizens on home turf they would be far from "good old boys". Anyone able and willing to be honest must admit these men at home would be fully prosecuted as hard-core drug criminals taking bribes and automatic weapons from and conspiring with international drug cartels as well as obstructing justice, compromising the prosecution of criminal cases they supposedly are prosecuting as well as breaching national security and probably a hundred other counts (take RICO for starters and maybe treason too) that any half-assed Assistant U.S. Attorney could think up and throw in a criminal complaint. These "boys" would be "men" real quick probably going away for life to the "big house", maybe even to the Florence, Colorado "Supermax" where they would be driven to insanity locked down alone for the rest of their lives in concrete cubes with a cold steel door and maybe entertain themselves by chewing off and eating mixed in a meal a fingertip as "meat" as at least one prisoner there has done according to the New York Times being made afterwards to mop up his own blood from the cell floor.
Untold thousands of Americans' lives are being destroyed by the fallout from the excruciating longevity of the totally bogus Nixon cynically created phony "war on drugs" against nothing but an "enemy" of this country's own misguided (or nefarious) creation and there is little incentive to end it with all those long fully invested for their livelihood from police officers who never before could have cut the grade all the way to prison corporations making a profit from putting as high a percentage of the country's population of non-violent U.S. citizens in cages as possible, not to mention everyone with an interest in between who cannot afford to see this nightmare end. This is no joke at all. The "war on drugs" is as phony a crock as it could be but with who knows how many "agents" partying with seriously criminal organizations overseas yes even including those funding terrorists largely the creation of the United States own misguided drug policies contrary to this country's own national security interest just ask any DEA agent when they are not too drunk to speak.
Readers interested in more information about the above hearing including choice comments from the House Oversight Committee about DEA Administrator Lionhart as well as further details about DEA agents' misconduct more recently revealed from the Judiciary Committee report can go to the link below.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/04/17/dea-agents-had-the-fun-now-boss-pays-the-price/?tid=hpModule_308f7142-9199-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239&hpid=z15
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
The American mainstream press by largely limiting itself to focusing on the screamingly apparently headline spectacular transgressions of a relatively small number of DEA agents basically cast as "party boys" and the harsh rote words of "outraged" lawmakers nevertheless still calling it a "good old boy culture" falling on the unfortunate present head of the DEA naturally unsupported by the White House quite obviously intentionally ignores the "elephant in the corner" (other than hinted at by the Washington Post blog link below) that is the mainstream press has failed to make the obvious observation that this entire episode in which DEA agents clearly routinely broke the law taking bribes, compromising legal cases and essentially "partying" with the drug cartels with whom they are supposed to be at "war" serves unequivocally to prove to anyone willing to open their eyes even halfway the endemic total bankruptcy and monumental failure of the 30-plus year phony "war on drugs" seemingly without end.
Let us call a spade a spade. If the DEA were prosecuting these DEA agents as ordinary domestic U.S. citizens on home turf they would be far from "good old boys". Anyone able and willing to be honest must admit these men at home would be fully prosecuted as hard-core drug criminals taking bribes and automatic weapons from and conspiring with international drug cartels as well as obstructing justice, compromising the prosecution of criminal cases they supposedly are prosecuting as well as breaching national security and probably a hundred other counts (take RICO for starters and maybe treason too) that any half-assed Assistant U.S. Attorney could think up and throw in a criminal complaint. These "boys" would be "men" real quick probably going away for life to the "big house", maybe even to the Florence, Colorado "Supermax" where they would be driven to insanity locked down alone for the rest of their lives in concrete cubes with a cold steel door and maybe entertain themselves by chewing off and eating mixed in a meal a fingertip as "meat" as at least one prisoner there has done according to the New York Times being made afterwards to mop up his own blood from the cell floor.
Untold thousands of Americans' lives are being destroyed by the fallout from the excruciating longevity of the totally bogus Nixon cynically created phony "war on drugs" against nothing but an "enemy" of this country's own misguided (or nefarious) creation and there is little incentive to end it with all those long fully invested for their livelihood from police officers who never before could have cut the grade all the way to prison corporations making a profit from putting as high a percentage of the country's population of non-violent U.S. citizens in cages as possible, not to mention everyone with an interest in between who cannot afford to see this nightmare end. This is no joke at all. The "war on drugs" is as phony a crock as it could be but with who knows how many "agents" partying with seriously criminal organizations overseas yes even including those funding terrorists largely the creation of the United States own misguided drug policies contrary to this country's own national security interest just ask any DEA agent when they are not too drunk to speak.
Readers interested in more information about the above hearing including choice comments from the House Oversight Committee about DEA Administrator Lionhart as well as further details about DEA agents' misconduct more recently revealed from the Judiciary Committee report can go to the link below.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/04/17/dea-agents-had-the-fun-now-boss-pays-the-price/?tid=hpModule_308f7142-9199-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239&hpid=z15
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
