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Holder to meet plane carrying bodies of DEA agents

The leaders of the U.S. Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration planned to travel to Delaware to honor three DEA agents killed in Afghanistan.

AP source: DEA joins Jackson death investigation

The Drug Enforcement Administration is joining the investigation into Michael Jackson's death, a law enforcement official said late Wednesday.

Audit: DEA intelligence analysts lacking security clearances

Twelve percent of the DEA's intelligence analysts last year did not have the security clearances necessary or were otherwise unauthorized to do their jobs, a new Justice Department audit concludes.

DEA Chief to Resign, Take Motorola Job

Drug Enforcement Administration chief Karen Tandy said Monday she is resigning, ending her four-year tenure as the first woman to hold that post.

40,000 Pounds of Cocaine Seized at Sea

The Coast Guard began unloading more than 40,000 pounds of cocaine seized from three ships off the Central American coast, much of it from a single bust considered the largest in U.S. maritime history.

$19M Found Buried Under House in Cali

Police say they found $19 million in cash under the floorboards of a house in Cali on Saturday.

AP Enterprise: 9/11 Thefts Not Prosecuted

As firefighters searched for survivors after the Sept. 11 attacks, heat from the World Trade Center's smoldering ruins burned the soles off their boots. They needed new ones every few hours, and Chris Christopherson made sure they got them.

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War On Drugs Doesn't Go Well, CIA Bugs DEA Agent's Coffee Table
Source: The Huffington Post

The settlement of a 15-year-old lawsuit has resulted in the U.S. agreeing to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a "bugged coffee table." Allison Kilkenny

Barack Obama, DEA And Dead Soldiers

Early this morning Barack Obama "personally" attended the transfer of dead American soldiers at Dover Air Force Base. Barack Obama is just going through the motions with his pathetic and disrespectful display, pretending to be engaged in a meaningful maner.

Obama issues new medical marijuana rules: No arrests
Source: Raw Story

The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.

Memorandum on Medical Marijuana enforcement
Source: blogs.usdoj.gov

This is the memorandum given to United States attorneys concerning the changes concerning medical marijuana enforcement.

Blackwater(now known as XE) Mercenaries in the DEA raid Marijuana Dispensary(2008):Is the DEA Contracting Blackwater(XE)?
Source: salem-news.com

Are members of a disputed mercenary killer group now working with the DEA? A photo from the LA Times shows proof of one of two things; either Blackwater members are now working for the Bush White House's Drug Enforcement Agency, or this semi-illegitimate band of rogue federal cop …

Booming medical pot sales concern officials
Source: USA Today

"Once we acknowledge patients have a right to cannabis, they have to get it somewhere," he says.

The murky world of confidential informants
Source: The Baltimore Sun

Gordon Mehler, a former federal public corruption prosecutor in New York and now a defense attorney who has written a well-received book on criminal law, said informants are "universally despised" but "seen as necessary evil because they provide access to criminal organizations t …

Sometimes I feel cheated as a taxpayer

My first mission in life right now is being a parent for my two kids. As a parent I am observant regarding potential threats in my local community.

Ex DEA agent who hunted Noriega charged in $7 billion fraud
Source: mcclatchydc.com

The former chief of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's Miami office who led the agency's cases against infamous Panama strongman Manuel Noriega and Medellin cartel kingpin Fabio Ocho, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for ordering the shredding of records once b …

Sheriff's Office makes largest cocaine bust in office history | abcactionnews.com
Source: ABC Action News

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office says they have made the largest cocaine bust in office history.

Colorado's Marijuana Economy: An Explosion of Ganjapreneurship
Source: theatlantic.com

What can only be rightly described as an explosion of ganjapreneurship is currently underway in Colorado, sparked by the Obama Administration's new policy announcement in February, which directed federal agencies to defer to state law enforcement on the issue of medical marijuana …

The War Down Below - Colombian Style Narco Terrorism at Our Doorstep

At this moment there are people dying in a war that is off the radar of the average American. A war that is only hours away from Houston, Austin, Dallas and many other US cities that border Mexico, a war that gets closer to our border every single day.

Ecstasy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Source: miller-mccune.com

A good look at how our drug policy is interfering with treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Why we say yes to drugs
Source: Salon.com

Resistance to mind-altering substances is futile, according to a new "Secret History of Getting High in America"

Agents descend on Vegas home of Jackson doctor - Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

Agents descend on Vegas home of Jackson doctor AP – Investigators search the home of Michael Jackson physician, Dr.

DEA Agent: Michael Jackson's doctor at Home During Search
Source: tmz.com

A DEA agent just spoke to the media outside of Dr. Conrad Murray's office in Las Vegas -- saying Murray was at home the whole time his house was being searched today by a pile of law enforcement agents.

U.S. officials raid Jackson doctor's office
Source: The Washington Post

At least a dozen DEA agents and officers from the Los Angeles Police Department entered the Armstrong Medical Clinic in northeast Houston, according to the local ABC News affiliate.

Diprivan, the drug found in Michael Jackson's home, may be more tightly restricted
Source: The L.A. Times

Even before Michael Jackson's death, federal regulators had become concerned about Diprivan, the anesthetic that police found at the pop star's home. The attention Jackson's death has attracted to the drug could lead to its becoming a controlled substance.

Farewell to the Prince of Pot

Part 1 of a Multi-Part Series London, Ontario, Canada came together tonight to pay its respects to a favourite son, and to say farewell. Or at least, a certain segment of its society did.

Agents say DEA is forcing them illegally to work in Afghanistan | McClatchy
Source: McClatchy

Narco-crazies . Why does America think we can fight our way out of every problem? . War - ANY where, against ANY foe - is great for guns, munitions, Haliburton and other profiteering business and BAD for absolutely everything else. . " (S)ome pilots have been sent to Afgh …

Immigration, drug agencies team up on border effort
Source: The Austin American-Statesman

It is good to see the federal law enforcement agencies stop having the governmental house divided by turf wars that may have offered both terrorists and criminal elements law enforcement chasms through which to maneuver.

5 accused of plotting to murder U.S. drug agent
Source: msnbc.com

Four men and a woman were arrested in Panama Friday in a plot to kill a U.S. drug enforcement agent, prosecutors said. They are to be tried in the U.S.

Medical Marijuana: House Appropriations Committee Asks for Clarification of Federal Stance on Raids
Source: stopthedrugwar.org

The House Appropriations Committee Tuesday approved language seeking clarification of the Obama administration's stance on medical marijuana in states where it is legal.

War Without Borders: Fueling Mexico's Drug Trade - The New York Times
Source: The New York Times

Is it time to legalize Marijuana?

Medical Marijuana is THE new growth industry
Source: Canna Zine News

With organizations like Rob Kampia's Marijuana Policy Project rampaging from state to state on behalf of medical marijuana, the green veil is being slowly but surely lifted across America, as administrations begin to realize sending people to jail for marijuana offences is an ine …

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