The Drug Enforcement Agency has been paying federal employees to serve as informants in instances where they were just doing their day jobs, the Justice Department’s watchdog reports.
Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, said the DEA improperly paid Amtrak and Transportation Security Administration workers for information that should have been shared with law enforcement as a matter of their day-to-day jobs.
The Office of the Inspector General began investigating the DEA after it found the agency paid an Amtrak informant $800,000 in reward money over a 20-year period, even though they should have gotten that information for free.
“I think here it was pretty clear that DEA should not have been paying federal employees,” Horowitz told the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
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Unreal.
ReplyDeleteLet's not do the job I got hired to do. They should shut down both agencies. What good are they. Still have as much drugs coming into the US. TSA only pats down children and old ladies. PERVERTS.
ReplyDeleteLet's see., aren't these agencies all at the top of our LE system, generally speaking? Then it's settled, nothing will happen, no heads will roll, no charges filed. They're 'the law', they're gonna bend it their way and there ain't a GD thing you or I are gonna do about it, folks. It's a GD wonder we've heard of it at all.
ReplyDeleteThe depth and breadth of corruption in gov't is sickening.
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