Ex-DEA Agent: 35Yr Drug War Will Never Be Won

Truth, common sense, hands-on knowledge, no B.S.------how refreshing when it happens. A local ltr-to-the-editor.

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Past 35 years show drug war will never be won

To the editor:

Re: "The drug war is working fine" (April 24), by DEA Agent. This is the response from an agent trying to keep his job, instead of doing his job by telling the truth.

The drug war will never be won, because drug enforcement has not worked for the past 35 years or so.

What’s the answer? Let’s try education, prevention, treatment and fighting corruption within U. S. federal agencies.

We have tried the John Wayne approach, and it just doesn’t work. We have spent trillions of dollars in drug enforcement in source countries like Colombia and Peru, and we have not made a dent.

Not only do we have more drugs today then ever, but they are stronger and man-made, like Ecstasy. We are also the biggest importer of heroin from Afghanistan, a country under the control of the U.S. government.

And for those who might not have figured it out, American(sic) is more addicted to drug money than to drugs. And there is no exception to the rule.

According to federal law enforcement agencies, there are several hundred special agents under investigation for corruption. DEA agents have sold sensitive data.

They perjure themselves before grand juries and in trials and falsify their work product. Some will, however, escape prosecution, because the government will not prosecute itself.

The cartels in Mexico have one of the best intelligence networks within our federal agencies. They not only know when an indictment is getting ready to be released, but who the informants are. Their sources of intelligence gathering are no other then U.S. federal agents and their informants.

/s/ Ex-DEA Agent

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That is an amazing statement.

He does leave out the obvious. With the cuts in funding, the only way to properly fund the departments is through forfeitures.

Seizing the Forfeited homes and cars is profitable, but not as profitable as seizing the cash. To do that, you have to let the drug lords set up their businesses and see a profit. You let the market thrive. Then, every now and then, you seize the cash.

You can't do a thing with the drugs but burn them, so you wait for the buys.

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rights, and the Patriot act will be the end.

When it finally all settles out we will be more like China, a capitalist country, but with no individual freedoms, but only the right to consume all the goods the man deems fit for us.