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Efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to target, disrupt and dismantle global drug-trafficking organizations cannot be measured and, as a result, it remains unclear whether the agency is adequately achieving its drug enforcement goals and objectives, a report said yesterday.

The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General said the DEA had failed to meet key aspects of the government's new performance-reporting guidelines, which focus on results instead of procedure, and that the agency's strategic objectives were "not quantitative, directly measurable or assessment-based."

The report said that while the DEA established performance indicators, the agency had not created specific criteria for its field divisions to designate organizations as "priority targets," a key element of its strategic goal, and had no specific criteria for reporting on priority targets that had been disrupted or dismantled.

It also said the DEA did not have an effective system to collect, analyze and report data for all of its performance indicators; lacked accurate performance data for one of the five field divisions included in the review; and had failed to create "reasonable realistic performance goals."

In response to the investigation, the DEA said it is updating its strategic plan and that the new strategy will address the shortcomings listed in the report. According to the DEA, the new plan will include a general long-term goal and four strategic goals with quantitative, time-specific objectives.

DEA Administrator Karen Tandy noted in a memo to Mr. Fine that the audit contained seven recommendations for action by the agency and that DEA supervisors had addressed six of them prior to the release of the IG report.

"The DEA's actions to revise its goal and objectives in the new strategic plan are positive steps toward improving the DEA's ability to measure achievement of its critically important goals and objectives," said Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.

The DEA enforces federal laws that relate to controlled substances, including identifying and targeting organizations and people involved in growing, manufacturing or distributing illicit drugs. It also is responsible for taking action to reduce the availability of and demand for illicit narcotics on the domestic and international markets and for controlling the diversion of legitimately manufactured narcotics into the illicit drug traffic.

The White House Office of Management and Budget said earlier this year in a performance evaluation for the 2004 fiscal budget that DEA had been "unable to demonstrate progress in reducing the availability of illegal drugs in the United States." The new budget called for the smallest increase for the agency since 1988.

DEA Faulted On Its Reports
Source: Washington Times (DC)
Author: Jerry Seper, The Washington Times
Published: October 14, 2003
Contact: letters@washingtonti mes.com * Website

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Old, discredited Nahas studies are still trotted out by the Drug Enforcement Administration today, and deliberately given to unknowledgeable parents' groups, churches, and PTAs as valid research regarding the evils of pot. Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974

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After his resignation, Turner joined with Robert DuPont and former head of NIDA, Peter Bensinger, to corner the market on urine testing. Soon after Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty. Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his disgrace, Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974



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"[Marijuana is taken by] musicians.
And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type..."
Harry J. Anslinger Federal Bureau of Narcotics 1948



Snake-Oil Salesmen
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) — whose anti-pot road show blew through Boston last week — wants you to believe that everything about marijuana is bad, bad, bad. That the plant’s promising medicinal benefits are simply a "Trojan-horse issue," perpetrated by drug-reform advocates who are taking advantage of sick and dying people to advance a decriminalization agenda. That legalizing medical marijuana would confuse the "just say no" message for adolescents and cause them to glamorize debilitating diseases like cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis.

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"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
Excerpt from Atlas Shrugged
Beginning on page 411 of the 35th Anniversary Edition

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