As the nation continues to turn against America's War on Drugs, we're now learning that federal law enforcement officers for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration have violated polices, ethical standards, and their oath of office, but
appear to be completely above the law when it comes to being held accountable.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed its employees to stay on the job despite internal investigations that found they had distributed drugs, lied to the authorities or committed other serious misconduct, newly disclosed records show.
Lawmakers expressed dismay this year that the drug agency had not fired agents who investigators found attended “sex parties” with prostitutes paid with drug cartel money while they were on assignment in Colombia. The Justice Department also opened an inquiry into whether the DEA is able to adequately detect and punish wrongdoing by its agents.
Records from the DEA’s disciplinary files show that was hardly the only instance in which the DEA opted not to fire employees despite apparently serious misconduct.
One DEA agent was actually
recommended to be fired for distributing drugs, but instead received a two-week suspension and is back on the job.
Six DEA agents handcuffed a college student, Daniel Chong, to a wall for five days and left him alone in a room with no food, water, or restrooms. All six agents later claimed they forgot he was there. Not one of them was fired.
Keep reading, because it gets worse.
When it was determined that an entire crew of DEA agents attended sex parties paid for by Colombian drug cartels, the expectation was that the hammer would drop and that the agents would be fired. The parties weren't even a part of an operation. Nah.
Not only that, but the head of the DEA shocked the world and said federal law prohibited her from firing them.
But never has the criticism been more pointed than in March, when the inspector general revealed that DEA agents had attended “sex parties” while posted in Colombia. The agents received suspensions of between two and 10 days. Two weeks later, exasperated lawmakers pressed the DEA’s administrator, Michele Leonhart, on why she hadn’t fired them. Federal law doesn't allow it, she replied.
It's increasingly clear that at the local, state, and even federal level, law enforcement officers are completely above the law.