The Economics of Mexican Drug Tunnels
In the last month, reports of underground drug tunnels from Mexico to the U.S. have enraptured the press.
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Two officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration arranged for a Secret Service agent to solicit a Colombian prostitute — and tried to destroy the evidence — according to a letter delivered by the Justice Department to several Senators.
In the last month, reports of underground drug tunnels from Mexico to the U.S. have enraptured the press.
Back when the Secret Service's Colombian prostitution scandal was in full swing, there were whispers of similar behavior among DEA agents, and on Monday CBS finally nailed the story that the agency was investigating three agents and had removed them from the country.
Daniel Chong, the UC San Diego student who spent five days in a DEA holding cell after agents forgot he was there, unsurprisingly sued the agency, asking for $20 million -- but just as a starting point.
A student at UC San Diego was rounded up in a drug bust then left in a DEA holding cell for five days without food or water, after officials apparently forgot he was in there.
Says the war on drugs is "a virtual race war"
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