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Friday, January 29, 2010

New head of the DEA - raves are "like violent crack houses set to music."

The level of disingenuousness and stupidity is just jaw dropping.

Sure, He Lies, but He's 'an Outstanding Testifier' - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine:
"The Drug War Chronicle cites more reasons to worry about President Obama's appointment of Michele Leonhart to head the DEA... Leonhart not only oversaw medical marijuana raids as acting administrator; she 'stood beside US Attorney Michael Yamaguchi when he announced in a January 1998 press conference that the government would take action against medical marijuana clubs' and 'as SAC [special agent in charge] in Los Angeles up until 2004, she was the ranking DEA agent responsible for the numerous Bush administration raids against patients and providers.' She was also enthusiastic about the federal government's crackdown on raves, telling The New York Times in 2001 that 'some of the dances in the desert are no longer just dances, they're like violent crack houses set to music.' But the most disturbing detail mentioned by the Chronicle is Leonhart's steadfast defense of Andrew Chambers, 'who earned an astounding $2.2 million for his work as a DEA informant between 1984 and 2000' but 'was caught perjuring himself repeatedly.' Leonhart's reaction to Chambers' perjury is troubling, to say the least..."

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