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Date : Sep 30 '94, 03:55                                             Scn
From : Michael Herried                                       1:138/179.0
To   : All                                 
Subj : drugs                                                                 


 Area: AEN NEWS 
  Msg#: 13600           Local                        Date: 09-25-94  18:27
  From: Al Thompson                                  Read: Yes    Replied: No
    To: All                                          Mark:
  Subj: "War on Drugs" continues


New Drug War Nerve Center Unveiled

The $50 million National Drug Intelligence Center, a new federal
facility administrated by its own new agency, was opened in rural
Pennsylvania.

While Attorney General Janet Reno says its role is to coordinate
intelligence from rival federal agencies, critics say the center is
a "boondoggle" with no clear mission and a "pork barrel" for local
Democrat Representative John Murtha.

Chair Of The House Defense Appropriation Subcommittee, Murtha has an
important role in setting the $263 billion Pentagon budget - and
deciding where it will be spent.

A recent Congressional audit found the drug intelligence network
rife with "unnecessary overlap and duplication." Four of the 19 drug
intelligence centers monitor the same air traffic over Mexico, and
three monitor the same parts of Central America.  The Pennsylvania
facility, approved by the Bush White House in 1990, is almost
identical to the DEA nerve-center in El Paso.

Murtha, then a member of the House Ethics Committee, was secretly
videotaped by the FBI agents saying, "It might be that I would
change my mind one day," as he turned down a bribe from undercover
agents in the 1980 Abscam sting.

- New York Times
November 17, 1993.


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