A Federal Judge Just Shamed the DEA for Fabricating Sham Cases to Justify War on Drugs

"After 9/11, among the many travesties of the Patriot Act was a little-known section that gave the DEA powerful new abilities, under the guise of “narco-terrorism.” The agency says that these new pursuits are promoting national security, and it uses the purported success to lobby Congress for more funding. However, according to ProPublica, these narco-terrorism cases are merely staging threats, not stopping them."