DEA chief Michele Leonhart expected to resign
Source: CBS News
Michele Leonhart, the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), is expected to resign soon, a senior administration official tells CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Bill Plante.
Leonhart, who was confirmed to her position in December 2010 but has served in an acting capacity since November 2007, has presided over an agency that has been plagued by scandal in recent years. Just last month, a damning report from the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General revealed that several DEA agents had engaged in "sex parties" with prostitutes paid for by Colombian drug cartels.
The agency also dragged its feet and withheld or redacted information during the investigation, the report said, so investigators do not know the full extent of the sexual misconduct. The local DEA leaders failed to report allegations of their agents patronizing prostitutes and frequenting a brothel. At least one of them was alleged to have solicited and engaged in sexual relations with prostitutes.
The report also says that a foreign officer claims to have provided protection for the agents' weapons and property during the parties, which occurred in government-leased quarters, and could have led to a security breach involving the agents' equipment.
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Similarly, the chaos and destruction in the Middle East is a sign of the success of US foreign policy.
We could extend this idea to criminals in general. King Draco would love it.
Others might be interested in reducing the violence. Depends on what's important to who. Some would love to find more excuses to use their military surplus equipment they got for free from Bush's war on fear. Because Republicans are efficient that way. 
The 1% wants the oil. If they can make money while stealing it, so much the better. But they want a peaceful environment for investment--constructing pipelines, etc. So the means (violence) contradicts the end (controlling the natural resources). It's a real problem for our ruling elite. Poor things.
