Yes, drug bust training and activity began the police state abuse and the domestic war on terror over funded it, jacked it up and sent it to the moon.
Whereas drug users and dealers (gangs) were targeted by the militarized drug police units, with the expansion of the WOT, everyone gets to be treated like a potential terrorist interacting with a anti-constitution occupying military force.
The Federal government has proven that it is not worthy of the power given to it in the name of stoping Islamic terror within the country. They politicalized their war against their thought enemies and those enemies just happen to be the citizens who demand they respect the constitution. The war on terror demands a federal, state and local structure of constitutional violation and citizen abuse.
P. J. O’Rouke said it best, “Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”