And now it falls to Trump to dismantle it.
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Last fall, I posted about America’s soaring rate of deaths from drug overdoses (over 70,000 in 2017). Unfortunately, many of these folks would still be alive were it not for the drugs smuggled into the country across our southern border.
Unhinged leftists don’t seem to care much about this ongoing tragedy since many of them are calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Never mind that the agency is critical in slowing down the river of drugs flowing into the U.S. ~
(Who is ICE?) “Those are the guys who are protecting us from the 200 million lethal doses of fentanyl that have come across the border in just the last year. And then the heroin spike and the opioid piece is still not solved … all of that ties into human trafficking.”
Source: Dave Brat (R-VA) via Breitbart News
But it’s not just ICE the Left wants to shut down. According to William Marshall, writing at Townhall, the Obama administration began undermining the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) a decade ago!
The ill-starred consequences of Barack Obama’s malign administration I fear will be felt by this country for decades to come. One aspect of that malignity is the unprecedented drug scourge and associated deaths of our fellow Americans that we are witnessing, largely at the hands of corporate peddlers of narcotics who have sold their souls for the modern equivalent of 30 pieces of silver, but also at the hands of Islamic narco-traffickers and Latin American drug cartels who are importing massive amounts of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine into the United States […]
My very knowledgeable friends, who have been in the trenches of the drug war for decades, place the blame for the current atrocious situation squarely at the feet of Barack Obama.
As one of these friends recently explained to me, “Obama’s [Attorney Generals] Holder and Lynch destroyed DEA” when DEA tried to go after the manufacturers of opioids like the ironically named Cardinal Health and other opioid manufacturers that were flooding the US market with opioids, working in collusion with over-prescribing doctors who saw an opportunity to become legalized drug pushers and profit handsomely in the process.
My friend explained that when DEA tried to go after Cardinal Health and other opioid manufacturers, Bill Clinton’s former Deputy Attorney General, Jamie Gorelick, now in private legal practice and representing opioid manufacturing companies, called Obama’s Deputy Attorney General, James Cole, and prevailed upon him to stop going after these companies. When DEA wouldn’t comply, my friend explained, Cole “crushed DEA by putting DOJ attorneys [willing to go along with Gorelick/Cole] in the DEA Chief Counsel’s Office to step on DEA investigations [and bring them] to a grinding halt.”
What a pack of subversive low-lifes!
Incidentally, as Marshall points out, Gorelick was also instrumental in creating Bill Clinton’s infamous “wall of separation” which prevented intelligence agencies from sharing crucial information and likely prevented US authorities from discovering and averting the worst terrorist attack on the American homeland – the 9/11 al Qaeda plot.
The crippling of the DEA is just another tarnished piece of the regrettable Obama legacy. And it’s one we need to remedy as soon as possible. Marshall recommends that President Trump start by installing Mike Braun, a former US Marine and retired DEA Chief of Operations, as new permanent Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration ~
(Braun) possesses the perfect resume for the job. He is a rock-solid American patriot whom the rank-and-file of DEA think the world of. DEA has not had a fully confirmed Administrator since 2015. Under Barack Obama and since, the agency has been operating under ineffectual, political lawyers, kowtowing to the opioid pushers.
Marshall concludes with this ~
This is a national security and humanitarian crisis of near epic proportions. As noted above, in addition to the profiteering pharmaceuticals manufacturers, Mr. Braun will take on the usual suspects in the cartels south of the border, but also ISIS and the Islamic Hezbollah drug-traffickers, the investigation of which Barack Obama killed in order not to offend his beloved Iranian interlocutors so he could gift America with his absurd “Iran nuclear deal,” as detailed in an amazing piece of investigative journalism in Politico – hardly a bastion of conservatism.
The Democrats in Congress and their allies on the rabidly anti-Trump Mueller investigative team have prevented President Trump and AG Barr from focusing on the critical drug crisis through their phony “Trump-Russia collusion” scam. It’s time to finally put that lunacy to rest and confront the real problems facing our country.
It will take decades – and vast amounts of fortitude – to undo the damage Barack Hussein Obama inflicted on this country. But we owe it to future generations to make the effort. Let’s fix the DEA.
