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...interview didn't take long. The story was the same everywhere: don't sign up if you can't fill the cup. Everyone from the president of IBM to the greasiest fry-boy at McDonalds had their nitrogenous wastes feeding into a pipeline straight to the DEA. Why? There weren't any attempts to justify it. If was simply wrong to do drugs...
...worth of booty from drug raids: walnut china cabinets, brass table lamps, a 24-in. television, a VCR and stereo equipment. One special agent argued that the furnishings indeed had operational value: they enhanced the office. The GAO disagreed, and much of the property has been removed. The DEA, which manages more than $370 million in confiscated goods, has now issued stricter guidelines on such...
...area of close-knit families, strangers stand out, making police undercover work nearly impossible. Good informants are tough to recruit because, as DEA Agent Kenneth Miley explains, "families don't tell on families," although that has changed some now that the feds pay bigger money for solid tips. Nonetheless, the established smuggling networks ensure a continuity to operations. After the feds busted one cocaine runner last year, his brother took over. When he was arrested, another brother came to the fore...
While the DEA was focusing on crack, some news organizations were questioning whether the entire drug-abuse story has been receiving too much attention. The New Republic ran a cover story billed "Confessions of a Drug- Hype Junkie," written by Adam Paul Weisman, a researcher at U.S. News & World Report who worked on that magazine's July 28 cover story about drug abuse. Weisman charged other publications with "blatant sensationalism" for having ignored statistics indicating there is no boom in drug experimentation among high school students; the number who sampled cocaine, he noted, has been oscillating between...
...attention to an issue. Some journalists believe they are just responding to public concern. Says NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw: "The drug story reached critical mass. It kept building up and up in almost volcanic fashion. My own guess is that the population of users is much larger than the DEA is led to believe." Yet the debate caused some news executives to ponder whether they were having unintended impact. Acknowledged ABC News Senior Vice President Richard Wald: "Has the press hyped the drug story? Piece by piece, no. But the cumulative fact of everybody paying attention to the same story...