Comer launches probe into actions by Biden admin's DEA that allowed fentanyl to reach streets
A million pills walked. One hundred thousand at a time. Comer wants the order that let them.
Summary
- Just the News reports House Oversight Chair James Comer opened a probe into Biden-era DEA decisions in New Mexico that, whistleblowers say, let fentanyl keep moving while agents watched.
- Empower Oversight's Tristan Leavitt, counsel for 14-year DEA Special Agent David Howell, said more than 1 million pills reached New Mexico streets and that the agency then tried to keep Howell off a witness stand.
- Comer's Monday letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche says a November 2019 Trump DOJ lethality protocol was set aside in early 2023. Shipments of up to 100,000 pills were left in criminal hands: walking fentanyl.
- DEA Administrator Terrance Cole has already asked Assistant IG Sean O'Neill for an independent review of the New Mexico operation. Comer is demanding the papers that show who signed the walk.
Commentary
A night nurse still counts breaths on a vinyl chair and knows what one pill does to a teenager's lips. She did not work that hallway so a federal file could let a hundred thousand walk.
That is the gap. One million pills. One hundred thousand per load. A 2019 rule parked in 2023. The honest dad already paid the funeral. The protocol paid the pause.
Look every working mother who still hides Narcan in a kitchen drawer in the eye and answer this: if an agent can name the walk, who still gets to call it policy?
Comments
Walking fentanyl is a phrase that should end careers. Start with the signature.
I ran interdiction. Leaving 100,000 pills in a network is not a tactic. It is a body count.
2019 protocol. 2023 pause. Comer to Blanche. Cole to the IG. Stack the four.
Allied desks still seize the load. A walk is how a town dies on a Tuesday.
Howell. Leavitt. One million pills. File the complaint.
I still mop a break room after an overdose. I want the name on the walk.
A hundred thousand pills is a school district. Do not tell me it was strategy.
A cartel does not need a port if a federal desk holds the door.
Just the News printed 1 million, 100,000, 2019, and 2023. Argue those nouns.
Publish the order. Protect Howell. End the walk. New Mexico is not a lab.
