Brutal DEA agent murder reminder of agency priority

Mar 05

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Brutal DEA agent murder reminder of agency priority
Budget still put on back burner
By Jerry Seper
Friday, March 5, 2010

Twenty-five years ago today, the brutally beaten body of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique S. “Kiki” Camarena was discovered wrapped in plastic bags and dumped along a road near a ranch 60 miles southwest of Guadalajara, Mexico – a death that continues to echo even now throughout the agency.

The veteran agent, along with his pilot, Capt. Alfredo Zavala Avelar, had been viciously tortured by the bosses of a Mexican drug cartel fearful that he had uncovered a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation tied to top officers in the Mexican army, along with Mexican police and government officials.

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Barack Obama, asked about drug history, admits he inhaled

Oct 24

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Barack Obama, asked about drug history, admits he inhaled
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Published: Tuesday, October 24, 2006

PHOENIX, Arizona — Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat who said Sunday that he was considering running for president in 2008, has created a little sunlight between himself and both Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

For one thing, he said, “When I was a kid, I inhaled.”

“That was the point,” Obama told an audience of magazine editors.

The direct admission was in contrast to Bill Clinton’s denial in his 1992 campaign for president that he had smoked marijuana.

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