Katherine Pugh writes for Just the News about the latest disturbing revelation involving the Biden administration.
A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has evidence that his agency and federal prosecutors let more than 1 million fentanyl pills flow onto the streets of New Mexico during the Biden era and then tried to silence him from testifying after he blew the whistle, the agent’s lawyer tells Just the News.
“DEA has a campaign that says one pill can kill, and so the DEA allowing this to happen was really significant. It was driven also by the US Attorney’s Office in New Mexico,” Attorney Tristan Leavitt, president of the Empower Oversight, whistleblower center, said in an interview Monday night.
Leavitt’s group represents DEA Special Agent David Howell, a 14-year veteran of the agency whose whistleblower complaint was chronicled by The Associated Press in a bombshell article Monday.
Leavitt compared his client’s allegations to the Obama-era Fast and Furious scandal in which the federal government allowed semiautomatic weapons to flow across the border to the drug cartels, putting American lives in danger.
“After Fast and Furious, the Justice Department headquarters adopted a protocol that said if you have a wiretap and you know that firearms are going to be trafficked, you have to try and stop them,” he said in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show. “Well, in 2019 they adopted a similar protocol for fentanyl.
“So the Justice Department’s guidance was really ignored in Albuquerque, because the U.S. attorney decided to cowboy and do his own thing in hopes of making a bigger case,” he added.
Howell first filed a whistleblower complaint in late 2023 with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel disclosing that the DEA and U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Mexico deliberately did not seize large shipments of fentanyl, including deliveries of 150,000 and 50,000 pills.
The Office of Special Counsel then asked the Justice Department to investigate after finding “a substantial likelihood of wrongdoing.”
