Many seem to want fewer IRS agents. Maybe the DEA is an agency that could use a haircut. This must have been fun while it lasted. Amazing how greedy people can get. How did he think he was going to get away with it at this level? DEA’s most corrupt agent: Parties, sex amid 'unwinnable war' SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sportscars, Tiffany jewels and paramours around the world. 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. **** “We had free access to do whatever we wanted,” the 48-year-old Irizarry told the AP in a series of interviews before beginning a 12-year federal prison sentence. “We would generate money pick-ups in places we wanted to go. And once we got there it was about drinking and girls.” All this revelry was rooted, Irizarry said, in a crushing realization among DEA agents around the world that there’s nothing they can do to make a dent in the drug war anyway. Only nominal concern was given to actually building cases or stemming a record flow of illegal cocaine and opioids into the United States that has driven more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths a year.
The war on drugs may be the most harmful, destructive policy ever put into place in this country's history
I’m sure a lot of people would succumb to “free access to whatever we wanted.” seems to me he should have more than 12 years
Anytime we circle around to this topic on the board, I feel obligated to post this: Report: Aide says Nixon's war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies | CNN Politics
When I lived in FL years ago, I met a guy though my then GF and we became friends. undercover DEA. Wouldn’t see him for months and months or longer. His wind down was to sit on his roof with his wife ( house on water in SW Florida ) and do X and stare at stars. Felt for the guy. I can’t imagine how anyone doesn’t change being deep like that for extended periods of time. Can only imagine the things I prob would have done under the guise of undercover law enforcement .
I don't disagree, although I think the crack cocaine epidemic, along with opioid crisis in more recent times are causes for concern.
Easy. Just a little light-hearted banter. For the most part, I agree with you. However, I'd be concerned if there was no enforcement on opioids.
Interestingly, the opioid crisis is largely attributable to pharmaceutical firms most notably Purdue Pharma which promoted the drugs to doctors who in turn wrote legal prescriptions for their patients who in turn filled the prescriptions at licensed pharmacies primarily chains.
Perhaps, but this doesn't change the fact that we can't let opioids run wild. Marijuana should have never been a concern. I think most of us would probably agree on that. But there are much more dangerous substances that need a check.
A-friggin-men! It's become a cottage industry benefiting everyone except the taxpayers. Take away the profit incentive by legalizing all but heroin and spend half the money saved on treatment. There's ALWAYS going to be a certain percentage who use and abuse drugs and alcohol, so the war will never be won.
Slavery says "hold my beer". The native Americans are just shaking their heads in disbelief. Global Warming wants you to peek at our energy policies over the last 50 years.
Nixon was such a winner. Also had that disgusting Atwater guy as an advisor who is on tape describing the “southern strategy” and not holding back his n-bombs…
This is a non politically motivated opinion here, but I think we have too many law enforcement types are becoming more and more corrupt these days. Or, maybe we just know about it happening because of the 24/7 news cycle.
