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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
I don't get it, Nixon created the DEA
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Because even though Nixon created it...it got sidetracked by Watergate. Ford didn't push it.
Carter ignored it.
When Reagan came into office the DEA was just a few guys in an office.
But his administration decided to revive the "War On Drugs" and pumped money into the DEA and started giving them broader powers.
And as you know, once the ball starts rolling with a Federal agency in Washington D.C., it becomes a bureaucracy.
Now the country can't live without it (if you believe the govt.)
And it is HUGE and pretty much "all-powerful".
Hard to believe that we never needed it before...kind of like the goddamned TSA.
