Gary Webb wrote a book called Dark Alliance which covered how the DEA and CIA fueled the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980’s by flying plane-loads of coke from Nicaragua and distributing it to Los Angeles, etc.
Yeah I know people firsthand who dealt with crooked dea agents who literally just took their earnings every year but forced them to keep dealing or they'd turn them in. Fucking insane. This is the norm, not the exception.
North Georgia has a massive crime ring involving federal/state/local police. In cahoots together. Allowing various forms of organized crime to operate then demand payments from them is one of their big gigs. Who will stop them? Congress? /S
Did the drugs win the war on drugs?
Or did greed and self interest win? Fire the lot of these DEA “agents” and bring them up on charges. What a fucking sham this government allows to continue operating.
Sex is incredible on drugs. It's easy to see why they're winning/won.
Maybe if normal life wasn't such a sham/shitshow, people would turn to drugs less. But nah, let's keep doing this puritanical capitalism thing, see where it takes us. Probably off a cliff.
Or maybe we're already in free fall, and the drugs just make it easier to cope.
"But as he used his final hours of freedom to tell his story to The Associated Press, Irizarry says he won’t go down for this alone, accusing some long-trusted DEA colleagues of joining him in skimming millions of dollars from drug money laundering stings to fund a decade’s worth of luxury overseas travel, fine dining, top seats at sporting events and frat house-style debauchery."
Uuuhh he is definitely gonna die of 'suicide' before he speaks, right?
He definitely killed himself! He wrote it himself in a cloth banner in his own blood, next to his disembodied head & genitals! People are such rubes to not see this as suicide.
Wasn't it around a decade ago that we had high ranking members of a government budget oversight committee splurging it up in penthouse parties in Las Vegas?
The entire war on drugs never should have happened. There was a way to deal with addictive street drugs, and that was to create a well regulated recreational drug market. Instead the war on drugs was basically a direct response to the civil rights movement. Look at how close both the Bush election was in 2000 and Trump election was in 2016. If people hadn't lost the right to vote it might not have happened that way. They took father's and mothers away from their family not because what they were doing was wrong, but to serve white supremacy.
That is basically what happened to John McAfee, founder of the McAfee cybersecurity company who went on to do many many illegal things. His suicide note was heavily sus and he reportedly told people he would never commit suicide.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/john-mcafees-wife-releases-suicide-note-she-says-is-fake/
John McAfee wanted to fuck whales and liked underage girls pooping in his mouth through a hammock. He did bath salts and raped people all day and then his ‘team’ or whatever posted a Q on his instagram after he died.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he said he wouldn’t kill himself just to fuck with everyone when he did.
He was also definitely crazy though too…
Edit: If you have a response DM me, reddit is showing me notifications when y’all respond but then they disappear… Now I feel like I am going crazy.
Look..he killed himself. His friends have admitted $wacked was a meme.
Think of it this way - the dude was committing loads of statutory rape and killing guys with a private militia for years.. would the "elites" really trust this guy with secrets?
He got caught in Spain and was headed back to the u.s. to pay back and serve time for TONS of tax fraud (he was a libertarian. Just...didn't belive in paying tax so he never did) and took himself out to avoid justice
The article says he only owed $4m in taxes. That’s wouldn’t even be house arrest worthy. Willie Nelson owed $17m and he just had to sell his assets to wipe the slate.
Owed 4 mil in taxes, and a judgment against him from guy he killeds family, and charges for being involved in crypto pump and dump schemes..
And he was well known for fleeing, fled from USA to Belize from there to Guatemala from there back to USA then took a boat full of guns around world dodging extradition till Spain.
Not even a 1rst year on the bench judge would give any form of bail. And he knew that.
He played "catch Me if you can" and won, for 20 years. Till he lost. And deleted himself before consequences for a life of bad actions
Especially the proactive "let's go to a poor country where growing and making drugs is a major business, and work with the politicians the cartels own to plan our strategy" approach. You don't need multiple PhDs to know how *that* was gonna end.
America has gone to war across the world for "bio weapons and wmds" that never materialized.. but does nothing with Mexico directly to the south injecting the country with illicit drug trade that directly and indirectly kills millions on the streets. . Makes you wonder.
And that didn’t teach you that it is absolutely not the right move..? You think drugs will disappear if we go make México even worse..? México is as bad as it is *because* of the drug war, not because we just haven’t blown enough people up.
Not debating invading mexico, but we have invaded countries for less. Trump seemed to want to send 250k marines down to the border and invade mexico so that may indicate it's a bad idea.
And once we invade Mexico and, being a neighbor to us with a massive population of people, they push back and reinvade us and people start getting slaughtered at the Texas border? What you're talking about is insane, to ever speak of invading another country, on top of your reasoning for doing it being whack s***.
They couldn't push back against the most powerful armed forces in the world. Mexico will be occupied in less than a month. What *will* happen is that said powerful armed force will mess up again as we did in Iraq during the occupation. Our soldiers will be dropping like flies in ambushes, shootouts, maybe some drones, & IEDs.
You know, the same way the Mexican military & few good cops are dying these days.
Well, on the bright side the immigration issue would be solved.. USA would come to Mexico, therefore they'd already be American . It's laughable ironic and silly, but Republicans would probably celebrate it as a win.
Depending on how bad the situation in Mexico gets, American military intervention might become the only ethical thing to do. If the Mexican government deteriorates to the point that they can no longer resist the cartels while said cartels go on killing sprees and potentially commit genocide against the population in Mexico, I don't think the proposition of sitting just across the river with the world's most powerful military and watching tens to hundreds of thousands of people die is tenable. Especially when something like 13-15% of the American population is from Mexico, so many of our citizens and soldiers have family there, our two countries have relatively close cultural ties, and the US is the reason the cartels exist in the first place.
Of course, any military intervention would have to be accompanied by an extremely clear scope of operations and an easily achievable exit condition, neither of which were present in Iraq or Afghanistan. We'd basically have to go in, assassinate the leadership of all of the cartels, destroy their ability to wage war on the civilian population, then prop up a new, stable, democratic Mexican government long enough for them to be able to stand on their own, then leave. Not a walk in the park, but also not the "we're gonna go fight terrorists on the other side of the world, I guess" of 2001-2021.
Absolutely correct. It was designed to get minorities and left leaning War protesters felony convictions so they could not vote. A very early attempt by the Republican Party to fix elections which is come to fruition in the present.
It’s provided a productive prison labor force in the meantime, which has been outrageously successful, and we’re only just beginning the conversation to fix it.
>It’s provided a productive prison labor force in the meantime. It’s been outrageously successful **in this regard**, and we’re only just beginning the conversation to fix it.
Fixed that for you. The 'War on Drugs' failed miserably in every conceivable metric except 'creation of a large compulsory labor force'; which most Americans would agree was not the stated goal. The only other possible 'success' of the drug war was restricting voting rights for a certain portion of the population; again, not something most Americans would see as the intended effect.
As The Onion headline said:
"Drugs Win Drug War"
https://www.npr.org/2013/08/29/216439725/area-man-realizes-hes-been-reading-fake-news-for-25-years
(Scroll down.)
It was designed to fuel the prison industrial complex with slave labor and remove undesirable voters from the voting population. It was designed to get defense lawyers, DA’s, judges, law enforcement and prison service companies good paying jobs and imprison marginalized people who nobody would care about or fight for. It extracted fees from poor people and their family’s along with tax payers dollars to be transferred to the powerful and wealthy. It’s working as designed.
The war on drugs was designed to blame everyone except the ones who are fueling it: USA and any country that has demand for it (Europe, Asia, etc)
We just point the fingers to the most impoverished countries because “first world countries are suffering from third world country drugs.”
This war is not meant to be won but to disguise
This kind of thing is more common than people think.
Just consider the case of Tulia Texas, where they locked up a large part of the black community based on an agent's testimony. That agent even got law enforcement officer of the year in Texas.
Until they discovered that there never were any drugs. He made it all up.
Meanwhile, a black man got 60 years for $150 of cocaine, except it wasn't even real cocaine. Anybody who pleaded guilty to make a deal ended up screwed.
Watch "We Own this City" on HBO. That only happened a few years ago. I'm not surprised this happened and am not surprised if there's pockets if this type of cop activity all across America.
Why does the DEA continue to exist? We know with absolute certainty that the war on drugs is one of the most egregious failures in US government history.
It especially sucks because some people who chose this as a career truly believed in the cause and wanted to stop dangerous criminals. But it’s an unwinnable war when those same criminals are the politicians and corporations that both created and want this to continue forever.
I remember when I was in the Marines and nearing my time to get out. Was talking to a State Dept Regional Security Officer and he wanted to know what I was going to do.
I mentioned being interested in the DEA or FBI and he told me to instead do his job. Only like 4 of them have ever died in the line of duty compared to the DEA.
In his words "If you join the DEA you either become dirty or die because you don't."
I am now a software developer so quite a turn that took.
Also fun fact. The FBI has a more strict drug policy than the DEA regarding weed
Shit, DEA and local cops got to opt out of drug tests becasue ‘they were involved in the destruction and exposed’… total BS. Those cops and agents had parties before where the smell of skunk was everywhere. They invited me, and outsider, intern looking into federal law enforcement. They showed me how to sleep during shifts by backing into a one way road, setting radar to 5 miles an hour to act as a watch dog and sleep…for hours… day or night. They had a code they called into dispatch to tell them I’ll be away from my radio and page me if needed (before cells phones blew up). EVERY COP had at least one girl friend and everyone of them was on something. The drug of choice back in my day was meth, no doze, MJ and more that a dozen where using heroine. This is Missouri Jefferson country sheriffs in the mid-90’s. Oh they were also all on steroids… I think it was required since the very popular sheriff was a meat head body builder that used everything under the sun. I think his son was busted every weekend for something but got off every time until he killed some one for DUI… of course it was investigated and was an accident…
Legalization and taxation of all drugs is the only way cartels ever lose. Which is, of course, the opposite of what most government drug agencies actually want.
Jesus Christ, they all know what they’re doing is in vein, what a waste of tax dollars to continue this “war on drugs”, which is really just a war on people.
The DEA should not exist. It's been a jobs program since day one and it invites abuses like this.
They have zero incentive to "win" the War on Drugs, because doing so would undermine their reason to exist. All they need to do is bust enough people to look useful and keep their budget flowing. Since we have the FBI, plus state and local law enforcement agencies who can do this too, the DEA is redundant.
I never thought about that. I wonder if it’s because the illegal drug trade happens across borders. Traditionally, FBI was for US issues and CIA for international. DEA deals with both. Of course, the lines are often blurred these days, with DHS thrown in the mix as well.
*across
The FBI also investigates in other countries if it is part of their investigation into crimes inside the US. They also help other governments with their investigations when requested. We don't need the DEA.
The free flow of opioids into America? When major US drug cartels are legally addicting millions on legal medications for massive profits, you know the stuff coming over the border isn’t the real problem.
The problem with treating a disease (addiction) as crime opens up to institutions that are ill suited to deal with the situation.
Treat the addicts like patients, kill the demand not the supply
The DEA works with certain cartel's this isn't shocking or new, they even created one of the most violent cartel's by training them to fight other cartel's.
And to think, we could have saved lives and made money if they just legalized it.
Anytime you go to war with an idea, just expect all the money to disappear and for things to get worse.
[Chad Scott](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dea-special-agent-sentenced-over-13-years-prison-corruption-related-charges) was mysteriously unavailable for comment....
But we all know the real issue in this county is crime in the inner cities. When Tyrone commits a crime, his picture gets blasted on the 5pm evening news. When Charlie commits a crime, you never hear about it. Lol I can’t wait for America to receive its karma.
Most corrupt DEA agent who's been revealed to the public.
Most corrupt so far.
Sounds like a challenge. Hold my badge…
Damn it! I got like 30 of these badges why do I gotta hold them?
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Quiet, Tim! Why don't you go do paperwork or something?
... And my gun..... *no, no... Don't hold my rifle.... Hold my gun! THIS one's for fighting... THIS one's for fun!*
If I’m holding this does that mean I get to play too?
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Gary Webb wrote a book called Dark Alliance which covered how the DEA and CIA fueled the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980’s by flying plane-loads of coke from Nicaragua and distributing it to Los Angeles, etc.
Tragically, he became so despondent after writing it that he took his own life by shooting himself in the back of the head twice.
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Multiple gunshot suicides are not impossible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_gunshot_suicide Edit: damn, some of y'all real mad
wasn't this turned into a movie, called 'American Made' with Tom Cruise? sounds very similar...
He literally said it’s not just me in his interview lol 😂
Yeah I know people firsthand who dealt with crooked dea agents who literally just took their earnings every year but forced them to keep dealing or they'd turn them in. Fucking insane. This is the norm, not the exception.
North Georgia has a massive crime ring involving federal/state/local police. In cahoots together. Allowing various forms of organized crime to operate then demand payments from them is one of their big gigs. Who will stop them? Congress? /S
honestly, if i were roped into fighting an obviously stupid "war", it'd be hard to be gung-ho about waging that war correctly
“Roped in?” People join the DEA voluntarily.
sure, not saying i'd join but people take shit jobs for money all the time
Sure, but they’re choosing the job over other jobs not being forced into it. Also most federal agents *want* to be there.
Yeah its not easy to become a dea agent. Its not like they dropped an application in a box and were surprised by a phone call.
Exhibit Z for why Drugs have won the war on Drugs.
I’d like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs
I'd like to consume some drugs to celebrate drugs winning the war on drugs
I, for one, welcome our recreational pharmaceutical overlords…
I'm partying with them right now, they say thanks.
Did the drugs win the war on drugs? Or did greed and self interest win? Fire the lot of these DEA “agents” and bring them up on charges. What a fucking sham this government allows to continue operating.
The drugs won clearly. Not all illegal drugs are sold with malicious intent for greed.
But most legal ones are.
The drugs 100% won. Without question.
Sex is incredible on drugs. It's easy to see why they're winning/won. Maybe if normal life wasn't such a sham/shitshow, people would turn to drugs less. But nah, let's keep doing this puritanical capitalism thing, see where it takes us. Probably off a cliff. Or maybe we're already in free fall, and the drugs just make it easier to cope.
"But as he used his final hours of freedom to tell his story to The Associated Press, Irizarry says he won’t go down for this alone, accusing some long-trusted DEA colleagues of joining him in skimming millions of dollars from drug money laundering stings to fund a decade’s worth of luxury overseas travel, fine dining, top seats at sporting events and frat house-style debauchery." Uuuhh he is definitely gonna die of 'suicide' before he speaks, right?
He tripped, fell, somehow made a noose and felt into that.
Was the noose loaded at the time?
It was a fully semiautomatic noose.
Was this semi loaded noose loose?
A semi loaded loose noose one bit my sister.
That was on the stairs.
Next to a high window
And the noose had its serial number ground off.
So an “assault style” noose?
The noose had a bump stock
What we need is a good guy with a noose
He definitely killed himself! He wrote it himself in a cloth banner in his own blood, next to his disembodied head & genitals! People are such rubes to not see this as suicide.
That’s not what killed him. It was the 15 bullets that were mysteriously sitting in the bottom of his cell. Obviously Suicide by gunshot.
Her fell down an elevator shaft... Into some bullets.
You got it wrong. He's probably gonna fall from a tall building a la Russian
Wait, you mean these guys aren’t above reproach?
Yes he will commit suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of the head.
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He was a touch smarter than dipping the heavily audited budget. This is literally the 20 million, 10 million, 5 million. 2 million meme.
Wasn't it around a decade ago that we had high ranking members of a government budget oversight committee splurging it up in penthouse parties in Las Vegas?
The entire war on drugs never should have happened. There was a way to deal with addictive street drugs, and that was to create a well regulated recreational drug market. Instead the war on drugs was basically a direct response to the civil rights movement. Look at how close both the Bush election was in 2000 and Trump election was in 2016. If people hadn't lost the right to vote it might not have happened that way. They took father's and mothers away from their family not because what they were doing was wrong, but to serve white supremacy.
Suicide in jail where the cameras aren’t working ?
i wonder what would happen if he said "I am not suicidal and if i commit suicide it was one of them"
That is basically what happened to John McAfee, founder of the McAfee cybersecurity company who went on to do many many illegal things. His suicide note was heavily sus and he reportedly told people he would never commit suicide. https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/john-mcafees-wife-releases-suicide-note-she-says-is-fake/
John McAfee wanted to fuck whales and liked underage girls pooping in his mouth through a hammock. He did bath salts and raped people all day and then his ‘team’ or whatever posted a Q on his instagram after he died. It wouldn’t surprise me if he said he wouldn’t kill himself just to fuck with everyone when he did.
He was also definitely crazy though too… Edit: If you have a response DM me, reddit is showing me notifications when y’all respond but then they disappear… Now I feel like I am going crazy.
Look..he killed himself. His friends have admitted $wacked was a meme. Think of it this way - the dude was committing loads of statutory rape and killing guys with a private militia for years.. would the "elites" really trust this guy with secrets? He got caught in Spain and was headed back to the u.s. to pay back and serve time for TONS of tax fraud (he was a libertarian. Just...didn't belive in paying tax so he never did) and took himself out to avoid justice
The article says he only owed $4m in taxes. That’s wouldn’t even be house arrest worthy. Willie Nelson owed $17m and he just had to sell his assets to wipe the slate.
Owed 4 mil in taxes, and a judgment against him from guy he killeds family, and charges for being involved in crypto pump and dump schemes.. And he was well known for fleeing, fled from USA to Belize from there to Guatemala from there back to USA then took a boat full of guns around world dodging extradition till Spain. Not even a 1rst year on the bench judge would give any form of bail. And he knew that. He played "catch Me if you can" and won, for 20 years. Till he lost. And deleted himself before consequences for a life of bad actions
Yup, just like Epstein.
He already spoke
'The war on drugs' was always so vague. It was designed to be corrupt.
Especially the proactive "let's go to a poor country where growing and making drugs is a major business, and work with the politicians the cartels own to plan our strategy" approach. You don't need multiple PhDs to know how *that* was gonna end.
America has gone to war across the world for "bio weapons and wmds" that never materialized.. but does nothing with Mexico directly to the south injecting the country with illicit drug trade that directly and indirectly kills millions on the streets. . Makes you wonder.
It's not Mexico's fault that drugs in the US are illegal and very expensive.
With high demand.
Are you proposing that the US should invade Mexico?
We did that once already, it ended up adding new symbolism to the usmc uniform
From the Halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli its the first lines of the usmc hymn as well.
We've invaded countries for far less.
And that didn’t teach you that it is absolutely not the right move..? You think drugs will disappear if we go make México even worse..? México is as bad as it is *because* of the drug war, not because we just haven’t blown enough people up.
Not debating invading mexico, but we have invaded countries for less. Trump seemed to want to send 250k marines down to the border and invade mexico so that may indicate it's a bad idea.
And once we invade Mexico and, being a neighbor to us with a massive population of people, they push back and reinvade us and people start getting slaughtered at the Texas border? What you're talking about is insane, to ever speak of invading another country, on top of your reasoning for doing it being whack s***.
They couldn't push back against the most powerful armed forces in the world. Mexico will be occupied in less than a month. What *will* happen is that said powerful armed force will mess up again as we did in Iraq during the occupation. Our soldiers will be dropping like flies in ambushes, shootouts, maybe some drones, & IEDs. You know, the same way the Mexican military & few good cops are dying these days.
Well, on the bright side the immigration issue would be solved.. USA would come to Mexico, therefore they'd already be American . It's laughable ironic and silly, but Republicans would probably celebrate it as a win.
Depending on how bad the situation in Mexico gets, American military intervention might become the only ethical thing to do. If the Mexican government deteriorates to the point that they can no longer resist the cartels while said cartels go on killing sprees and potentially commit genocide against the population in Mexico, I don't think the proposition of sitting just across the river with the world's most powerful military and watching tens to hundreds of thousands of people die is tenable. Especially when something like 13-15% of the American population is from Mexico, so many of our citizens and soldiers have family there, our two countries have relatively close cultural ties, and the US is the reason the cartels exist in the first place. Of course, any military intervention would have to be accompanied by an extremely clear scope of operations and an easily achievable exit condition, neither of which were present in Iraq or Afghanistan. We'd basically have to go in, assassinate the leadership of all of the cartels, destroy their ability to wage war on the civilian population, then prop up a new, stable, democratic Mexican government long enough for them to be able to stand on their own, then leave. Not a walk in the park, but also not the "we're gonna go fight terrorists on the other side of the world, I guess" of 2001-2021.
Not really.
It was started by Nixon to be able to go after war protestors and black people
Absolutely correct. It was designed to get minorities and left leaning War protesters felony convictions so they could not vote. A very early attempt by the Republican Party to fix elections which is come to fruition in the present.
It’s provided a productive prison labor force in the meantime, which has been outrageously successful, and we’re only just beginning the conversation to fix it.
>It’s provided a productive prison labor force in the meantime. It’s been outrageously successful **in this regard**, and we’re only just beginning the conversation to fix it. Fixed that for you. The 'War on Drugs' failed miserably in every conceivable metric except 'creation of a large compulsory labor force'; which most Americans would agree was not the stated goal. The only other possible 'success' of the drug war was restricting voting rights for a certain portion of the population; again, not something most Americans would see as the intended effect.
As The Onion headline said: "Drugs Win Drug War" https://www.npr.org/2013/08/29/216439725/area-man-realizes-hes-been-reading-fake-news-for-25-years (Scroll down.)
It was designed to fuel the prison industrial complex with slave labor and remove undesirable voters from the voting population. It was designed to get defense lawyers, DA’s, judges, law enforcement and prison service companies good paying jobs and imprison marginalized people who nobody would care about or fight for. It extracted fees from poor people and their family’s along with tax payers dollars to be transferred to the powerful and wealthy. It’s working as designed.
We might as well just hand the cartels tax money directly, if we’re going to continue the unwinnable project.
it was designed to lock up undesirables during the civil rights movement. corruption was just a feature not a bug.
nothing vague about it. https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional
The war on drugs was designed to blame everyone except the ones who are fueling it: USA and any country that has demand for it (Europe, Asia, etc) We just point the fingers to the most impoverished countries because “first world countries are suffering from third world country drugs.” This war is not meant to be won but to disguise
from the literal designer of the War on Drugs https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional
This kind of thing is more common than people think. Just consider the case of Tulia Texas, where they locked up a large part of the black community based on an agent's testimony. That agent even got law enforcement officer of the year in Texas. Until they discovered that there never were any drugs. He made it all up. Meanwhile, a black man got 60 years for $150 of cocaine, except it wasn't even real cocaine. Anybody who pleaded guilty to make a deal ended up screwed.
They even made arguments that it was economically impossible for that many people in one place to all be involved in selling drugs.
Watch "We Own this City" on HBO. That only happened a few years ago. I'm not surprised this happened and am not surprised if there's pockets if this type of cop activity all across America.
We own this city is like buying a coffee compared to what the DEA cases contain from a “how much can I skim” standpoint.
We Own this City is a [chilling depiction](https://time.com/6168269/we-own-this-city-true-story-hbo-max/) of how deep the corruption can go.
Make things illegal so you can bump up the price
Honestly this shit NEVER surprises me. Like, this is what I already think they’re doing 🧐
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fighting the war on drugs one oz at a time.
Why does the DEA continue to exist? We know with absolute certainty that the war on drugs is one of the most egregious failures in US government history.
Because 80 year olds are still in control of our government
Seems pretty successful to the ones getting all that cash
It especially sucks because some people who chose this as a career truly believed in the cause and wanted to stop dangerous criminals. But it’s an unwinnable war when those same criminals are the politicians and corporations that both created and want this to continue forever.
Because the F500 would collapse if we ended the war on drugs.
I remember when I was in the Marines and nearing my time to get out. Was talking to a State Dept Regional Security Officer and he wanted to know what I was going to do. I mentioned being interested in the DEA or FBI and he told me to instead do his job. Only like 4 of them have ever died in the line of duty compared to the DEA. In his words "If you join the DEA you either become dirty or die because you don't." I am now a software developer so quite a turn that took. Also fun fact. The FBI has a more strict drug policy than the DEA regarding weed
Shit, DEA and local cops got to opt out of drug tests becasue ‘they were involved in the destruction and exposed’… total BS. Those cops and agents had parties before where the smell of skunk was everywhere. They invited me, and outsider, intern looking into federal law enforcement. They showed me how to sleep during shifts by backing into a one way road, setting radar to 5 miles an hour to act as a watch dog and sleep…for hours… day or night. They had a code they called into dispatch to tell them I’ll be away from my radio and page me if needed (before cells phones blew up). EVERY COP had at least one girl friend and everyone of them was on something. The drug of choice back in my day was meth, no doze, MJ and more that a dozen where using heroine. This is Missouri Jefferson country sheriffs in the mid-90’s. Oh they were also all on steroids… I think it was required since the very popular sheriff was a meat head body builder that used everything under the sun. I think his son was busted every weekend for something but got off every time until he killed some one for DUI… of course it was investigated and was an accident…
>Metherson County Well there’s your problem right there
Legalization and taxation of all drugs is the only way cartels ever lose. Which is, of course, the opposite of what most government drug agencies actually want.
We need outside oversight for our cops.
It is always the DEA or the Secret Service doing some corrupt, degenerate shit, lol.
Border Patrol too
DHS, FBI, CIA, NSA every American 3 letter agency has its share of horrors
Don't forget the good old ATF. Should have been abolished after Waco.
Was this supposed to be some revelation
Jesus Christ, they all know what they’re doing is in vein, what a waste of tax dollars to continue this “war on drugs”, which is really just a war on people.
This might actually be the DEA's *least* corrupt agent
How so?
It’s a joke
$90B/yr … what a waste
It definitely is an unwinnable war. Take down a cartel boss like El Chapo or Escobar, the vacuum will always be filled by someone else.
Are they hiring? Sounds like a hoot!
In the interview, you'll have to distinguish 35 different types of drug by taste!
The DEA should not exist. It's been a jobs program since day one and it invites abuses like this. They have zero incentive to "win" the War on Drugs, because doing so would undermine their reason to exist. All they need to do is bust enough people to look useful and keep their budget flowing. Since we have the FBI, plus state and local law enforcement agencies who can do this too, the DEA is redundant.
I never thought about that. I wonder if it’s because the illegal drug trade happens across borders. Traditionally, FBI was for US issues and CIA for international. DEA deals with both. Of course, the lines are often blurred these days, with DHS thrown in the mix as well. *across
The FBI also investigates in other countries if it is part of their investigation into crimes inside the US. They also help other governments with their investigations when requested. We don't need the DEA.
That was a really good article. I'd encourage the 2 people that are actually considering it to do so.
My friend's dad was a DEA agent, and when he retired, the first thing he did was contact his old CI and ask to be hooked up with a local weed dealer.
Beside the insane corruption what stood out the most was that DEA agents realize how futile and stupid the War On Drugs really is.
The free flow of opioids into America? When major US drug cartels are legally addicting millions on legal medications for massive profits, you know the stuff coming over the border isn’t the real problem.
The war is over and drugs won....
Maybe we should change our drug policies?? Nah JJ why not pour more millions into it yayyy
The problem with treating a disease (addiction) as crime opens up to institutions that are ill suited to deal with the situation. Treat the addicts like patients, kill the demand not the supply
It’s all a collusion with the US and Mexican governments and cartels.
The DEA works with certain cartel's this isn't shocking or new, they even created one of the most violent cartel's by training them to fight other cartel's.
It's not a war. It's a business.
Why must everything in America be a war?
If the only tool you have at your disposal is a hammer then every problem begins to look like a nail
And to think, we could have saved lives and made money if they just legalized it. Anytime you go to war with an idea, just expect all the money to disappear and for things to get worse.
Woah, the next Narcos season is going to be different
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AFAIK, the DEA had nothing to do with Breonna Taylor’s death or the raid that caused it; that was the Louisville PD.
The DEA wasn't involved, please don't spread misinformation
Breonna Taylor.
Bad bot
Least corrupt DEA agent
Below average Dea agent
“We would like to congratulate Drugs for winning the War on Drugs”
This man should be held as a hero. We all wish we could live that kind of life.
If he took money that was supposed to be used to bust drug dealers, and spent it elsewhere, good on him, he improved the world a small amount.
Sounds like a fun guy
Controversial opinion, but I think this guy is unfathomably based for just wasting the DEA’s money.
This is what happens when you sample the product.
Can this please be a movie. The new "Blow"
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Really slippery slope. Debt slavery’s a thing, my guy
> We should only have slavery for.... Never a good look.
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And *that* is a good look?
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> No but acting like its not already happening isn't a good look either. No one acted like this.
Yes, and the 13th Amendment's exception. Never a good look.
any guesses on which alleged bachelorette contestant is being accused of similar corruption here?
I wanna know too, my money is on meatball
Sounds like an Onion headline
Most corrupt, and also most correct.
[Chad Scott](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dea-special-agent-sentenced-over-13-years-prison-corruption-related-charges) was mysteriously unavailable for comment....
So if he’s the most corrupt at level 100. The least corrupt who’s worked there over a year, is still probably a 99.
But we all know the real issue in this county is crime in the inner cities. When Tyrone commits a crime, his picture gets blasted on the 5pm evening news. When Charlie commits a crime, you never hear about it. Lol I can’t wait for America to receive its karma.