(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Drug Enforcement Administration special agent David Howell has given his first televised interviews since he went public as a whistleblower to expose the DEA’s policy of allowing hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and May 2025.
Howell’s disclosures were first reported by the Associated Press in June, when the AP reported that DEA agents repeatedly monitored shipments of fentanyl pills — but did not seize them — as federal prosecutors sought to bring bigger criminal cases against traffickers. The DEA policy described by Howell was reminiscent of the Obama-era ATF’s Operation Fast & Furious, where agents allowed illegal gun sales under the auspices of tracking firearms to organized crime.
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