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 RT: The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) confirmed that at least one of the men arrested for the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise was their informant, according to CNN, while several others may have had ties to the FBI. Moise was gunned down at dawn last Wednesday by attackers who reportedly claimed to be DEA agents raiding his home. Responding to an inquiry by CNN on Monday, the agency officially denied that the attackers were acting on its behalf, but confirmed that “at times, one of the suspects” detained by the Haitian authorities “was a confidential source to the DEA.” Moreover, following the assassination, “the suspect reached out to his contacts at the DEA,” which urged him to surrender to the local authorities. The DEA and the US State Department “provided information to the Haitian government that assisted in the surrender and arrest of the suspect and one other individual,” the agency said. In a statement to Reuters, an unnamed law enforcement official sought t...

Breitbart: DEA: DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS SURPASS THOSE FROM FIREARMS, CAR CRASHES This appears to be the case every year since Obama was first elected President.

Image via Wikipedia NY Times: ... Diplomats recorded unforgettable vignettes from the largely unseen war on drugs: ¶In Panama , an urgent BlackBerry message from the president to the American ambassador demanded that the D.E.A. go after his political enemies: “I need help with tapping phones.” ¶In Sierra Leone , a major cocaine-trafficking prosecution was almost upended by the attorney general’s attempt to solicit $2.5 million in bribes. ¶In Guinea, the country’s biggest narcotics kingpin turned out to be the president’s son, and diplomats discovered that before the police destroyed a huge narcotics seizure, the drugs had been replaced by flour. ¶Leaders of Mexico ’s beleaguered military issued private pleas for closer collaboration with the drug agency, confessing that they had little faith in their own country’s police forces. ¶Cables from Myanmar , the target of strict United States sanctions, describe the drug agency informants’ reporting both on how the military junt...