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DEA Gone Wild
National Review ^ | July 30, 2012 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 07/30/2012 8:50:26 PM PDT by george76

the DEA here commandeered private property from a law-abiding businessman and ineptly deployed it in an operation that got a man killed and now endangers a family that had nothing to do with the case. There is a term for what the DEA did with that truck: grand theft auto.

The DEA is running neck-and-neck with the ATF for the title of most dangerous federal law-enforcement agency; in my view, both should be dissolved and their responsibilities handed over to some more responsible party, such as a group of drunken rodeo clowns or ADD-addled teen-agers.

Whoever approved this operation belongs in a jail cell next to whoever approved Fast and Furious.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
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To: jmacusa

IIRC, Tricky just changed the name, BNDD to DEA.


21 posted on 08/01/2012 12:06:59 AM PDT by metesky (Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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