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Somebody put these DEA and SWAT guys away somewhere. Please. For the safety of Americans. SWAT team raids wrong home: State Police and DEA agents frighten residents and tear up house A State Police SWAT team and a swarm of federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents stormed a four-family home in Newark on Tuesday, kicking [...] In Thursday’s Washington Times: Colombia helps Afghanistan wage drug war Illinois’ Henry Hyde, idiot and Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, got this bright idea: Colombia has done so well with its drug war, why not have them tell Afghanistan how to do it? “We warmly welcome the restoration of formal relations between [...] Today’s New York Times article: Profiling Report Leads to a Demotion is interesting in that it describes a process that has become amazingly typical in government use of data (particularly as it relates to the drug war). Amid all the reports of racial profiling in highway stops, the Justice Department did a study – [...] Via Libby at Last One Speaks, I discover that there is a new blog with the title: Notes on the MAPS/Craker/DEA hearing concerning the establishment of a pilot medical marijuana production facility at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst Rick Doblin is one of the bloggers, posting directly from the hearings. [and I thought Drug [...] Coverage of the attacked rave continues, and media sources in very conservative Utah are trying to figure out how to deal with it. The most confused appears to be the Daily Herald. The first half of the opinion piece is paragraph after paragraph of law-and-order mantra, supporting the police activity and opining that the [...] What the press didn’t learn from the last drug panic An interesting read from Jack Shafer. Link Good stuff — also includes transcripts from the hearings this week. [Thanks to Dan] Among the DEA’s many faults is the extensive use of questionable or downright dishonest informants. (See my report on Bad Girl Michele Leonhart and the use of informant Andrew Chambers, who regularly lied on the witness stand.) Here’s the latest. The DEA first recruited [Essam] Magid as an informant in 1999 after an arrest [...] After only reporting the press release put out by the Sheriff yesterday (and getting some heat for it), Utah papers are starting to explore the other side: In the Salt Lake Tribune: Partygoers at a rave in Spanish Fork Canyon that was busted by police Saturday night say officers used brutal and excessive force [...] So after Chavez kicked out the DEA from Venezuela (accusing them of spying and running drugs), the U.S. government retaliated by revoking Visas and threatening their “rating” with the U.S. Now so-called religious leader Pat Robertson has weighed in to give the “Christian” solution: “We have the ability to take him out, and I [...] |
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