whatever BECAME of that Voter Intimidation PROBLEM he was looking into???
Posted on 05/16/2014 7:54:36 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
The head of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration was called in to speak with Attorney General Eric Holder and told to get in line with the Obama administration's policy on lessening sentencing for drug offenders, according to a report from the Huffington Post.
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Memo to Attorney General Eric Holder: How about getting in line with US laws instead of the tyrant’s demands.
Wow
DEA ADMINSTRATOR BALKS AT OBAMA-HOLDER’S LATEST ATTACK ON STANDARDS
As befits an administration that exalts leftist politics over law enforcement, the Obama administration has been plagued by several “revolts” by its law enforcement arms. When President Obama nominated Debo Adegbile, who led an ideologically-based defense campaign for a convicted cop killer, the FBI Agents Association balked. When Attorney General Holder came out in favor of legislation that would drastically cut back on mandatory minimum sentences for drug pushers, the National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys balked.
Now, the Obama administration’s Drug Enforcement Administration administrator, Michele Leonhart, is speaking out against the same pet Holder legislation. The Huffington Post reports that during testimony last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee a certain “farmer from Iowa” asked Leonhart about the role of mandatory minimums in drug cases. She responded:
Having been in law enforcement as an agent for 33 years, [and] a Baltimore City police officer before that, I can tell you that for me and for the agents that work for DEA, mandatory minimums have been very important to our investigations. We depend on those as a way to ensure that the right sentences are going to the … level of violator we are going after.
Leonhart has clashed with the Obama administration on other drug related matters, as well:
Leonhart has already reportedly slammed the president behind closed doors for comparing weed to alcohol, and has said that the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado — which the Obama administration allowed to move forward — has only made DEA agents “fight harder.”
She’s also suggested that gangs are taking over in Washington and Colorado in the wake of marijuana legalization, even as Holder has said he’s “cautiously optimistic” about how things are going in those states.
In Holder’s case “cautiously optimistic” is probably a euphemism for “doesn’t give a damn.”
The lightening of sentences for drug offenders is another front in the war on standards, a war the success of which means major American decline. As Bill Otis puts it:
How does a civilization choose decline? In many ways, one of which is by deciding to go easier on its criminals.
With serious consideration of slashing even minimum drug penalties, attacks on any imposition of the death penalty, clemency for heroin pushers, dumbed down sentencing, psychobabble defenses, and the ubiquitous snarl of “racism!” to banish any thought of accountability — decline is what America, with its current enervated and morally blase’ Administration, is choosing.
Another things covert Narco nations have in common is a bad habit of letting crime run amok. I'm not sure why they do it , but they let crime slide and let criminals out of jails. Maybe its part of the distraction, but that is exactly how Chavez turned Venezuela into the murder capital of the world. Anyone thinking the sociopthic cartel are going to bring their drug into a regulated, capitalistic, free market, and sing koombaya are sadly mistaken. It's going to turn into hell on earth.
In Michigan, the biggest drug kingpin in Michigans history, who had over $21 million in drugs moeny, with $3 million cash in the house, was released on an unsecured bail.?????
What judge would do that? Somebody tell me how we are not corrupt to the core? Since when is news like this buried, and an old basketball owners jealous booty call national headline news?
This is so insane, it would be laughably entertaining, if it wern’t so ominous. We’re screwed.
A Macomb County man described as one of the biggest drug dealers in the history of metropolitan Detroit remained on the run Wednesday but federal authorities say they are making progress on tracking him down.
The U.S. Marshal Service has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Carlos Powell, who cut his ankle tether Monday and disappeared right before a jury reached a guilty verdict in his trial.
> If the DEA chief had any integrity, he would have resigned on the spot and told Holder exactly where to go.
Integrity and Liberalism are like oil and water.
Never going to happen.
> If the DEA chief had any integrity, he would have resigned on the spot and told Holder exactly where to go.
Integrity and Liberalism are like oil and water.
Never going to happen.
Very good point.
Good one! :)
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