FEDS SPENT $86 MILLION ON PLANE THAT CAN’T FLY

The Office of Inspector General for the Justice Department released a report Wednesday chronicling the boondoggle, which initially started as an $8 million project eight years ago.

“In fiscal year 2008 the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) expended nearly $8.6 million to purchase an ATR 42-500 aircraft (ATR 500) to support its counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan,” the inspector general said. “The Department of Defense (DOD) agreed to modify the DEA’s ATR 500 with surveillance equipment and other capabilities to conduct such operations in the combat environment of Afghanistan in what became known as the Global Discovery program.”

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Big Brother Rising: US Turns Into Full-Blown ‘Surveillance State’

The agency’s plan circumvented the US Congress and was revealed in a New York Times report last month. In response, a number of US lawmakers wrote a letter to the NSA director to express their concerns.

Speaking to Loud & Clear host Brian Becker, Bryan Ford, a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, stresses that the legislative branch should not be left in the dark about any government policies.

“We shouldn’t be finding out about what’s happening with the NSA form the New York Times,” Declan McCullagh, a technology journalist, adds. “It’s the Authority Oversight Committee. They should be finding it from the NSA itself. There is a failure of Democratic enforcement here.”

http://sputniknews.com/us/20160329/1037113909/us-surveillance-state.html

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DEA HIRED TSA INFORMANT TO CONFISCATE TRAVELERS’ CASH

The report, released by the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), summarizes whether the DEA acted accordingly in registering a TSA employee as a paid Confidential Source (CS).

“The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated this investigation upon the receipt of information from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport Security Screener had been registered as a paid Confidential Source (CS) for the DEA,” the summary states.

DEA Hired TSA Informant to Confiscate Travelers’ Cash

DEA eases requirements for natural cannabis-derived drug research

The U.S Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Wednesday relaxed some restrictions on research evaluating cannabidiol, an extract of the marijuana plant, for medicinal use.

 The modifications will ease some requirements imposed by the Controlled Substances Act on possession of cannabidiol (CBD) for a specific U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved research protocol, the DEA said.

 

So far, researchers who expanded the scope of their studies and required more CBD than initially approved had to request, in writing, for a modification to their DEA research registrations.

http://news.yahoo.com/dea-eases-requirements-natural-cannabis-derived-drug-research-171836900–finance.html?nf=1

 

DEA EASES REQUIREMENTS FOR NATURAL CANNABIS-DERIVED DRUG RESEARCH

The modifications will ease some requirements imposed by the Controlled Substances Act on possession of cannabidiol (CBD) for a specific U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved research protocol, the DEA said.

So far, researchers who expanded the scope of their studies and required more CBD than initially approved had to request, in writing, for a modification to their DEA research registrations.

DEA Eases Requirements for Natural Cannabis-derived Drug Research

DEA GIRL: HAPPIEST MUGSHOT IN AMERICA

 

A college kid arrested for a large assortment and a large quantity of drugs, facing a maximum penalty of 215 years in prison and $30,000 fine, showed no concern in her mugshot that went viral and was labelled “the happiest mugshot in America.”

DEA Girl: Happiest Mugshot in America

Sex, drugs & lies: DEA agents stay on job despite serious misconduct, internal records show

 The DEA has the largest international footprint of any US federal law enforcement agency, with 833 personnel permanently assigned to 86 foreign offices in 67 countries, including 459 Special Agents as of 2014. The agency has previously come under fire for failing to crack down on misconduct of its employees. The head of the DEA, Michele Leonhart, retired from her position in late April following reports that some of the agents had been involved in a series of sex parties with prostitutes in Colombia and at other locations, dating as far back as 2001. These were funded by the drug cartels they were sent to suppress. Leonhart claimed 10-day suspensions that her agents were given were the most severe punishments she could have doled out, due to civil service regulations. A House of Representatives oversight committee then issued a statement expressing no confidence in Leonhart’s leadership and called for her resignation.

http://www.rt.com/usa/316745-dea-job-misconduct-records/

SEX, DRUGS & LIES: DEA AGENTS STAY ON JOB DESPITE SERIOUS MISCONDUCT, INTERNAL RECORDS SHOW

 Of the 50 employees the DEA’s Board of Professional Conduct recommended be fired following misconduct investigations opened since 2010, only 13 were eventually terminated, the records indicate. But after a federal appeals board intervened the drug agency was forced to take some of them back, it turned out.

“If we conducted an investigation, and an employee actually got terminated, I’d be surprised,” a former DEA internal affairs investigator, Carl Pike, told USA Today. “I’d be truly, truly surprised. Like, wow, the system actually got this guy.”

The DEA has the largest international footprint of any US federal law enforcement agency, with 833 personnel permanently assigned to 86 foreign offices in 67 countries, including 459 Special Agents as of 2014. The agency has previously come under fire for failing to crack down on misconduct of its employees. The head of the DEA, Michele Leonhart, retired from her position in late April following reports that some of the agents had been involved in a series of sex parties with prostitutes in Colombia and at other locations, dating as far back as 2001. These were funded by the drug cartels they were sent to suppress. Leonhart claimed 10-day suspensions that her agents were given were the most severe punishments she could have doled out, due to civil service regulations. A House of Representatives oversight committee then issued a statement expressing no confidence in Leonhart’s leadership and called for her resignation.

http://www.infowars.com/sex-drugs-lies-dea-agents-stay-on-job-despite-serious-misconduct-internal-records-show/

The DEA Just Cancelled Its Contract With Hacking Team

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THE DEA JUST CANCELLED ITS CONTRACT WITH HACKING TEAM

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