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No Surprise: Senate Report Says U.S. Guns Going to Mexican Drug Traffickers at Alarming Rate; Makes Recommendations

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Certainly this comes as no surprise. A Congressional report released Monday concludes that American military-style weapons are arming Mexico’s violent drug organizations at an alarming rate and policy makers are not adequately responding. “Congress has been virtually moribund while powerful Mexican drug trafficking organizations continue to gain unfettered access to military-style…

Senate Report Urges Obama Administration to Do More to Fight Mexican Cartels

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A just-released Senate report on Mexico drug trafficking urges judicial and police reforms in Mexico and calls for the Obama Administration to provide more resources to its southern neighbor and to do more to starve Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations of the money that fuels them. The report, issued by The U.S….

Sen. Feinstein Says DEA Needs More Helicopters to Fight Drugs in Afghanistan

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, renewed her call Monday for the State Department to cough up more helicopters for the DEA in Afghanistan. The public call comes in wake of last week’s major airborne drug raid that netted more than…