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“DEA is a game. Drug war is a game, It was a very fun game that we were playing.”
RayR Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 07-20-2020
Posts: 8,796
The DEA checks all the boxes of the Rules of Bureaucracy starting with #1. If it ever fixed the problem, it would no longer have a reason to exist. In this case it shows that they even take part in exacerbating the problem.

Rule #1: Maintain the problem at all costs! The problem is the basis of power, perks, privileges, and security.

DEA Whistleblower Claims Mass Fraud and Corruption. Is Anyone Surprised?

Laura Williams – December 2, 2022

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The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is a colossal institutional failure. Since its founding in 1973, the DEA has intercepted a fraction of one percent of illicit drug trades. Drugs have never been stronger, cheaper, or more available. Meanwhile, the global economic and human costs of ‘enforcement’ keep rising.

Recently, Americans received a stark reminder of this ongoing, flagrant failure in the form of José Irizarry, a former award-winning DEA agent who was convicted of 19 counts of corruption and fraud in 2020. On his way to serve federal time in Puerto Rico in January 2022, Irizarry spoke to the Associated press, calling out his ex-colleagues and spilling a few agency secrets.

“You can’t win an unwinnable war. DEA knows this and the agents know this,” Irizarry told reporters, validating decades of criticism. “…We know we’re not making a difference.”

While some money and effort was spent intercepting, or at least tracking, drugs and money between the 69 countries in which DEA has a presence, what were agents up to on the taxpayer dime?

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https://www.aier.org/article/dea-whistleblower-claims-mass-fraud-and-corruption-is-anyone-surprised/
ZRX1200 Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 07-08-2007
Posts: 60,476
I can’t think of an alphabet agency I wouldn’t burn to the ground (metaphorically speaking) and be fine without in this country.
MACS Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 02-26-2004
Posts: 79,593
ZRX1200 wrote:
I can’t think of an alphabet agency I wouldn’t burn to the ground (metaphorically speaking) and be fine without in this country.


Agreed.
Sunoverbeach Offline
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Joined: 08-11-2017
Posts: 14,586
Out of every person to ever live, only about 5.5% are alive right now
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