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...best suspects in the September 11 investigation remain overseas. Key members of Congress haven't been happy with the bureau in a while. FBI veterans would like to give jurisdiction on certain crimes back to other federal agencies - drugs, for instance, would be better worked by the DEA, solo. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms could handle abortion clinic bombings, and the Secret Service is better than the FBI at certain complex credit card and cyber-cash scams. But some lawmakers want the FBI on those issues. Now Mueller faces the tricky job of satisfying Congress while assuring Attorney...
...Manufacturers Association says such ads "empower" patients by informing them of treatment options. But, as doctors will tell you, they are a double-edged sword because they drive up demand for drugs. And that's particularly dicey in the case of drugs like those used for ADHD, which the DEA puts in the same category with morphine, cocaine, Demerol and Oxycontin...
Alarmed as it is by the trend, the government's hands may be tied. Under a 1971 United Nations convention, signatory nations agreed to prohibit the advertisement of psychotropic substances to the public. But the U.S. never passed such a law. So when the DEA recently complained to Celltech about its ad, it could only express strong concern--not threaten legal action...
That profile, involving four components--young, Hispanic, male, confused--became famous in the 1980s because of the DEA's Operation Pipeline. Pipeline was essentially a series of training seminars the DEA built around the Illinois strategy of targeting couriers. Local police around the nation--particularly in the Southwest and along the East Coast--were taught to profile these couriers. In 1999, Donnie Marshall, then No. 2 at the DEA, proudly told Congress that Operation Pipeline had led to seizures of 116,188 kg of cocaine, 748 kg of crack and 872,777 kg of marijuana, and that half a billion...
...Washington lawyer Jim O'Dea says that in order to be classified as obstruction, a lie would have to be about something material to the case, and Condit could argue that lying about an affair wasn't material. Also key would be exactly what questions the police asked; if they weren't precise, and if Condit managed to deflect them, a jury might simply laugh at the cops' ineptitude...