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DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart has come under fire recently for being out of sync with the Obama administration over drug policies and sentencing requirements.
Now Rep. Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican, is coming to Leonhart’s defense, saying the Obama administration should butt out following news that Attorney General Eric Holder spoke with the DEA chief about her critical comments about the president’s sentencing reforms, the Huffington Post reports.
What Wolf doesn’t say is that Leonhart is a politically appointed position.
“Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement,” Wolf wrote. “This article suggests a similar ‘Nixonian’ effort to pressure a career law enforcement leader into changing her congressional testimony and public comments to fit the narrative of the administration. I am deeply concerned and hope you will correct the record if the information reported was inaccurate.”
The Republican Congressman is an idiot! The drug policies in the United States are terrible and waste of rec payers dollars. I do not use drugs and never have, but I feel that laws in the Unless States are more dictatorial. I don’t follow any part lines, but I agree with Obama’s stance on drug policies.