Posted on 06/23/2026 3:45:20 PM PDT by bitt
Starting under the Biden administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills into New Mexico because Justice Department prosecutors wanted to bring a bigger criminal case against traffickers, The Associated Press first reported.
The AP cited three current and former DEA agents as well as government records showing that, between 2023 and 2025, the DEA monitored fentanyl shipments but didn’t seize the highly lethal drugs.
“We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Special Agent David Howell told AP. “Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, ‘We don’t really know what happened to the drugs.’ But we 100% got people killed.”
The AP cited one DEA report that said traffickers delivered 74,000 pills as part of a deal.
“We did nothing but sit back and watch,” Howell said.
A spokesperson for the administration, Amanda Wozniak, told the AP, “Public descriptions suggesting that DEA knowingly permitted fentanyl to reach communities are false and fundamentally mischaracterize the facts.”
She added the investigation involved court-authorized wiretaps “in which agents and prosecutors conducted real-time surveillance, intelligence gathering, and operational analysis targeting larger drug trafficking organizations.”
Former U.S. Attorney Alex Uballez of New Mexico, who President Joe Biden nominated in 2022, oversaw and defended the program.
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Uh, you do that with one shipment, or a series of small shipments. Not hundreds of thousands of pills.
“Snowfall” deja vu all over again.
The demonrat party is the party of death.
Abortion, gang killings, fentynal are ok with them.
I think they call it acceptable losses.
Why follow the law when your own government cannot?
The homeless and the addicts die off, the NGOs get more money to “take care of them”, which translates into more money for the NGOs to funnel back to the dems, makes sense to me!
I’d bet it was so they could kill US Citizens, make some money while doing it, and fund the illegal migration to replace the US Citizens they murdered.
Where are the arrests?
‘FAST AND FURIOUS 2.0?’ BIDEN DEA LET 1M FENTANYL PILLS FLOW TO STREETS, WHISTLEBLOWER LAWYER SAYS
The scandal, mirroring that of the 2009-2011 Operation Fast and Furious, was used to gain intel for cases against major drug traffickers in an effort to eventually save more lives.
Being that they never did, it tells you they were just being paid by the cartels to traffic w/impunity.
So did they ever bring the charges?
I haven’t heard of them. Did I miss it, or did they not actually bother?
The people here who so readily find fault with the president (and I’ve been guilty of it) should imagine a Supreme Court if Hillary had won in 2016.
I’m thinking cartel payoffs.
This right here is 3rd world corruption type sh!t.
Everyone involved should be prosecuted and held personally civilly liable.
Inexcusable.
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Un-freak’en-beliveable🙄
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