DEA, HOLDER & CONGRESS

I worry that the information that the House of Representatives wants contains information that would identify informants and agents working for, or cooperating with, the DEA.

The Bush era idea to let guns go into Mexico to try to trace the ultimate buyers was a risky and dangerous idea. It is too bad that it continued into 2010.

I know that in the drug wars it is difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys. But the US should not deliberately risk the lives of people who purport to be helping us. The risk to our agents in Mexico is extremely high. I think the death toll in Mexico is now 47,000 people since the DEA and Mexico started trying to stop the flow of drugs into the US.

You all know that I think the War on SOME Drugs to be stupid and ineffective. That does not mean that I am willing to increase the risk to the lives of the people who are trying to enforce US policy in Mexico.

A woman CIA agent has already been "outed" for the political purposes of the Republicans. She is safe. If Congress inadvertently "outs" a DEA agent, his headless body may hang from a bridge.