From: [wren 1] at [ccnet.com]
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Subject: DEA Conference
Date: 16 Feb 1996 04:07:09 GMT


February 14, 1996

WASHINGTON

The Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday convened its first
conference of  federal, state, and  local 
law  enforcement officials  on " a startling rise in the use of 
methamphetamine"  ( here we go again , Gee, it must
be an election year)

U.S. Senator Orin Hatch (Republican/Utah) chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, complained about
Mexican interdiction efforts. " I think it is important that we lay
down a marker ( to the Mexican goverment) that
we are watching this closely," ( translation: give up your sovereignty
or we will wreck your economy, i.e. Colombia,
Panama)

Hatch also called the Clinton administration's drug policy
"imbalanced" and its enforcement effort lethargic,  "President
Clinton has abandoned the bully pulpit, overemphasized treatment of
hard-core users and most importantly, de-emphasized
core law-enforcement and interdiction activites," he said.  Hatch said
 later that he thought the administration's
drug-fighting priorities result form the relative youth of White House
aides who grew up the 1960s.  The White House
called Hatch's comment on the  administration's younger members
"silly".  ( OUCH!  I bet that really hurt Senator Hatch,

Why doesn't the Clinton Administration sent over that four-star
general that Clinton just appointed as the new drug Tzar to
punch Orin in the nuts?)

END THE WOD