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Posted by FoM on February 28, 2002 at 12:57:34 PT By Lenny Savino, Herald Washington Bureau Source: Miami Herald 
Drug Enforcement Administration chief Asa Hutchinson confirmed Wednesday that agents in the DEA's San Juan office had claimed credit for hundreds of arrests in which they had played no role, and he called their actions ``wrong and irresponsible.''Hutchinson also confirmed that several DEA agents had been disciplined in connection with the miscounting. ''There is absolutely no excuse for that kind of reporting,'' he said of the inflated statistics. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #5 posted by schmeff on March 01, 2002 at 12:14:19 PT |
| Remember Hutchinson's quoted remarks from the other day, something about there being over 10,000 studies on MJ and not one suggesting any medical benefits? Certainly he has no credibility to comment on inflated statistics. He's such an Asa. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on March 01, 2002 at 09:13:35 PT:
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| Congress takes notice? The DEA has not exactly been dealing with a full deck, recently. Remember their 'star' informant, Andrew Chambers? DEA Drug Informant Is Caught Lying http://www.uvm.edu/~rmelamed/DEA_informants.html Bennett v. DEA., 55 F.Supp.2d 36 (D.D.C. 1999) http://www.november.org/razorwire/rzold/15/1439.html Supersnitch Scandal http://www.november.org/razorwire/oct-nov-dec2001/page8.html Just How Corrupt Is The Drug Enforcement Agency? http://www.libertysearch.com/articles/2001/000096.html Bad enough they can't keep their DrugWar paid pimps from doing it; now they are doing it themselves. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #3 posted by DdC on February 28, 2002 at 15:03:28 PT |
| D.E.A.th Deceptions http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/DEAth.html http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/39/39670.gif [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by E_Johnson on February 28, 2002 at 14:14:43 PT |
| An official informed about DEA's disciplinary proceedings said that Michael Vigil, now head of DEA's international division, was among those reprimanded. Hey at least now he has even bigger arrest statistics to lie about! [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #1 posted by Jose Melendez on February 28, 2002 at 13:54:47 PT:
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"There is absolutely no excuse for that kind of reporting," he said of the inflated statistics.- Excuse? No. Reason? Yes! The reason these things get over-reported is that dishonest beaurocrats pretending to be tough on drugs knowingly use innacurate statistics to foster a false sense of successful drug interdiction. This in turn assures high salaries for what has been shown to be a fraud. Vigil declined to be interviewed. He has previously said that he relied on foreign authorities for the statistics and that their accuracy was not as important as the "spirit of cooperation forged between the countries who participated in the operations."- See above. [ Post Comment ] |
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