The authorization is nationwide and lasts 14 days, according to the memo.
Bookmarking…
Too many people were cavalier about voting and about voting for Clinton in 2016.
Neglect voting at your own peril.
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When the Federal Bureau of freaking Investigation isn’t hard core enough and you have to mispurpose a completely separate federal law enforcement agency for domestic surveillance, then you have well and truly jumped a whole bay full of sharks.
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We have camera phones now, the same dynamic won’t work, as their current failure to control the narrative proves.
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If they are looking for the most reactionary police force to do their dirty work, use ICE or the CBP. They will more than glad to help the Dear Leader and they already have the concentration camps to “re-educate” the “antifas” .
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Fucking fascists.
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The Wicked Witch of the West Wing is summoning all his flying monkeys. Beware Dorothy!
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ICE and CBP have already been called up to do some of this police work, DEA is just the next step. They are all institutions Trump can control directly, and you can bet that there will be more of this. Someone (Barr and his cronies most likely) is coming up with legal reasoning to allow these agencies to be used like this, which is laying the path for them to follow illegal orders…and I don’t know if they have the same kind of duty to ignore illegal or unconstitutional orders that the military does. And, we know that at least some members of these agencies are just fine following bad orders, and revel in making life miserable for the people they don’t like (who tend to be non-white and non-conservative).
This is really laying the groundwork for major interventions across the nation by the feds to interfere in our lives. We know Trump has dictator impulses, he’s now flexing his might to make it happen before the election, and to turn the election in his favor. The nation’s soul really is in the balance at this point.
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Drumph is in the three strikes field; the riots, the economy, the virus. He may be able to winge his way out of two, but three? Not likely. He has no successes anywhere and has disasters everywhere.
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Do not underestimate the stupidity of the American people. There are many that will still vote for Trump because socialist AOC, and now with the riots they will rush Trump to protect them from the looting antifas…
And all three teeming with fascist thugs…
“wasn’t immediately clear Wednesday why the DEA’s resources were necessary”
To make selective arrests and manufacture a narrative of crazed drugged up black mobs coming for the white people. Taking away their voting rights via felony convictions is the cherry on top.
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Don’t forget that there are sealed indictments outside the control of the Department of Justice just waiting for next February.
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That was '72. That’s what made the whole Watergate thing so dumb. McGovern didn’t stand a chance. '68 was quite close - some 500,000 votes. That being said, if Wallace hadn’t run, Nixon would have won in close to a landslide.
As an aside, about the same number of people voted in '68 and '72 as did in 2016, even though the nation’s population has increased about 120 million. We are pathetic.
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The “war on drugs” has always been “war on POC”. So this is not changing DEA’s remit at all.
Nixon: “lock up the blacks & the hippies”
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I think Barr has once again overstepped his authority. Congress needs to make noise about this.
That being said, local law enforcement usually bristles at fed interference/involvement of any kind.
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Were I president, I would permanently knee-cap the DEA by taking half it’s budget and devoting it to education and addiction treatment. The only reason we have supply is because of demand.
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Thanks for the correction - you are absolutely right.
I better double check my facts before I give any more history lessons. I am going to use being old as an excuse and no one can stop me.
OT, but George Wallace’s California campaign headquarters were in the little armpit of a town in eastern LA where I grew up - we were too young to vote but we were all campaigning for McCarthy before the primary.
Four years later I was campaigning for McGovern, and that was the most disappointing election of my life until 2016. There are only 2 things missing from now that were huge in my youth - multiple terrifying assassinations and the draft. Otherwise it all smells, feels and looks very similar, as I am sure that many in my age group would agree. Let’s just hope that this time we manage to choose the correct direction at this fork in the road.
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