The DEA in Georgetown: Culture and challenges

See how brief I can be today. As I comment on America’s DEA.

On the twentieth anniversary of this column three years ago I wrote (all of) the following: “You have probably heard of the USA’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Established forty years ago, the DEA was meant to be the single federal authority to enforce America’s drug laws. Now in collaboration with agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) among others, the DEA combats drug smuggling and use within the USA.

“It also now co-ordinates, pursues and oversees American drug investigations around the