Drug Enforcement Administration

Drug Enforcement Administration
Abbreviation	DEA
Predecessor	• Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs • Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement
Formation	July 1, 1973
Parent organization	USDOJ
Headquarters	Arlington, Virginia
Leader	Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration Incumbent: Chuck Rosenberg Since 14 May 2015
Subgroups	Special Operations Division
Staff	10,784
Website	http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/
Interest of	Douglas Valentine

The Drug Enforcement Administration was established on July 1, 1973, by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, signed by Richard Nixon.

Infiltration

Full article: DEA/Infiltration

Douglas Valentine writes that "the DEA and its predecessor federal drug law enforcement organizations have always been infiltrated and, to varying degrees, managed by America’s intelligence agencies."

Whistleblowers

Sibel Edmonds' testimony illustrates how this infiltration plays out in these days of high technology mass surveillance. A recurrent pattern frustrates FBI and/or DEA drug sting operations which pose a serious threat to deep state drug trafficking. Apparently, the US State Department regularly gets such operations called off at the last minute by claiming that since the traffickers have diplomatic immunity they must under no circumstances be arrested, for fear of causing a diplomatic incident. As she notes, this is suggestive not only of deep state involvement in the global drug trade, but also of mass surveillance used in real time to monitor the actions of selected individuals. Her observations correlate closely with other whistleblower testimonies and the "disappearance" of drug kingpins such as Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía.

Call Tracking

In 2015 it emerged during a court case that the DEA had secretly kept a vast database of American phone calls to foreign countries for over a decade. They claimed that the programme had been stopped.

Asset Forfeiture

Under the US Justice Department's "civil asset forfeiture program", the DEA claims the right to seize people's property without charging them with a crime. "We don’t have to prove that the person is guilty," an Albuquerque DEA agent stated "It's that the money is presumed to be guilty."

See Also

• Set of radio shows about the DEA

References

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