The government shutdown has closed our national parks and furloughed almost a million federal employees, but the Drug Enforcement Administration remains “essential” enough to carry on the drug war. You and I both know the DEA isn’t effective. So why is it considered essential? Express your outrage: tell your members of Congress that funding the […]
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. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, DC — DEA seizures of indoor and outdoor cannabis crops declined dramatically from 2011 to 2012 and are now at their lowest reported levels in nearly a decade, according to statistics released online by the federal anti-drug agency. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 2012 Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Statistical Report, the total number of cannabis plants eradicated nationwide fell […]
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SOURCE: DEA: Marijuana Plant Seizures Fall to Lowest Levels in Nearly a Decade by Paul Armentano
. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, DC — On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a first-ever Senate hearing on the issue of marijuana legalization and the tension between state and federal marijuana laws. Last November, Colorado and Washington became the first political jurisdictions in the world to approve the legal regulation of marijuana. Twenty states and the District of Columbia […]
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. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, DC – For at least six years, the DEA has had access to a massive AT&T database of phone call records dating back to 1987, the New York Times reported Sunday. According to the report, the DEA pays AT&T to place company employees in DEA offices around the country, where they supply DEA agents with phone data […]
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SOURCE: DEA Using Massive AT&T Phone Records Database by Phillip Smith
. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, DC – US Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced Monday that he would hold a hearing next month on the Justice Department’s response to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington and legal medical marijuana in 20 states and the District of Columbia. The hearing is set for September 10. Leahy […]
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. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, DC — A group of Democratic senators and congressmen want Attorney General Eric Holder to answer questions about a Reuters report earlier this month revealing that the National Security Agency (NSA) supplied the DEA with intelligence information aimed not at fighting foreign terrorism, but at making drug cases in the US. Five Democratic senators and three […]
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. . . . . READ MORELOS ANGELES, CA — A federal judge Tuesday awarded $3 million to the family of an 18-year-old Los Angeles honors student who was gunned down by undercover DEA agents in a parking garage in 2010. But the judge also ruled the officers were not negligent in their actions. Zachary Champommier died when he drove into a Studio […]
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. . . . . READ MOREIn what many have called a blatant abuse of power that strips Americans of their fundamental constitutional rights, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and other agencies to spy on American citizens in the name of the War on Drugs. Moreover, according to an investigation […]
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. . . . . READ MOREAt an undisclosed location in Virginia, a publicity-shy unit of the Drug Enforcement Agency is feeding surveillance data from the National Security Agency (NSA), as well as wiretaps, informants, and a massive DEA phone record database, to law enforcement officials around the country to help them launch criminal investigations of American citizens. Reuters broke the story with […]
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SOURCE: DEA Unit Uses NSA Spy Data to Launch Criminal Investigations, Then Hide Their Origins by Phillip Smith
. . . . . READ MORENEW YORK – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is using secret surveillance tactics – including wiretaps and examining telephone records – to make arrests while concealing the source of the evidence from judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys, according to a story published today by Reuters. In cases where this intelligence is used to make an […]
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SOURCE: DEA Conceals Reliance on Surveillance Conducted by Intelligence Agencies by The American Civil Liberties Union
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