Michele Leonhart

DEA Cracking Down on “Fake Pot”

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The DEA on Wednesday announced it was using its “emergency scheduling authority” to temporarily outlaw  five chemicals used to make “fake pot” products. The DEA said the move was in response to the increasingly popularity of the products that were harming people. The DEA said plans to oulaw the…

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DEA Used Mumbai Plotter Despite Warnings

By GINGER THOMPSON, ERIC SCHMITT and SOUAD MEKHENNET New York Times WASHINGTON — American authorities sent David C. Headley, a small-time drug dealer and sometime informant, to work for them in Pakistan months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, despite a warning that he sympathized with radical Islamic groups, according to court records and interviews….

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