Thread: EXCLUSIVE: DEA Officials Directed To Stop Saying ‘Mexican Cartel’

EXCLUSIVE: DEA Officials Directed To Stop Saying ‘Mexican Cartel’

JENNIE TAER INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
August 12, 20218:35 PM ET

• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials have been instructed to “avoid saying ‘Mexican cartel’ or discussing the Mexican government, or LE cooperation with Mexico” when speaking with the media, according to an internal email exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
• The reason for the shift in messaging is unclear, but comes as Mexican drug cartels continue to surge drugs across the southern border and adopt more advanced manufacturing and trafficking tactics.
• The DEA and the DOJ did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s multiple requests for comment on the email.

Officials at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have been directed by their headquarters to stop using the term “Mexican cartel” when speaking with the media, according to an email exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation from a government official.

A portion of the email sent mid-July stated: “Also, we need to now avoid saying ‘Mexican cartel’ or discussing the Mexican government or LE cooperation with Mexico. Please continue using ‘drug cartel,’ TCO, DTO, etc.”



The DEA is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Justice (DOJ) tasked with enforcing the country’s drug laws. Anne Milgram, who was sworn in June 28 by Attorney General Merrick Garland, heads the agency. The DEA and DOJ did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

The guidance came as the Mexican cartels continue surging drugs across the southern border and into the U.S. Between October and June, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized 358,302 pounds of drugs at the southwest border, including 8,093 pounds of lethal fentanyl.

Over the same time period in 2020, CBP seized 541,126 pounds of drugs at the U.S.-Mexico border. And over the 9-month period in 2019, CBP seized 498,281 pounds of drugs, and, during those months in 2018, they seized 677,179 pounds of drugs. The amount of fentanyl seized at the border has steadily increased throughout the last few years and the amount seized so far in 2021 has already exceeded what was captured in 2019 and 2020 combined.

“Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo interviewed former acting administrator of the DEA Timothy Shea May 9 about the cartels trafficking drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Bartiromo stated that Shea was supposed to be joined by a DEA official, but that the DOJ last minute canceled his appearance.

“We actually invited an official from the Drug Enforcement Administration to come on with you,” Bartiromo said. “And we thought we would have a conversation, the three of us. But Biden’s DOJ squashed it.”

She added, “They did not want the DEA official to be on to discuss this. So, there is also a media ban on this.”

https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/12/e...exican-cartel/

My opinion -How long will total lawlessness from the fraudulently placed Biden Regime go on till we implode as a nation? These evil doers are making their own law, dictating illegal mandates, ignoring law, and destroying America. It is as if a Marxist foreign government has taken over and is sitting in the highest levels of government to dismantle us from the inside. We are observers and funders of our own destruction and transformation.

The Biden regime hates patriotic, God fearing, America loving people and is determined to replace Americans who stand in the way of their evil deeds.

They are International Terrorists who are now controlling our border.

This is war and should be treated as such.

Get troops and tanks down there to stop this!

Expel them all back over the 1st border they illegally cross and on down the line back to where they came from!