not through the dea. employees in the organization not only need to know they have a safe work environment to go to and a non-hostile work environment, but they need to know they can come forward report allegations and are going to be taken seriously and they will be addressed promptly. del. plaskett: thank you. you spoke about how your own outrage for -- i can play the understand that. i was raised by a new york city police officer that says every good cop hates the most the back top because they make all the good cops -- a completely take everyone else. do you agree that sexual harassment notably -- negatively impact for our? -- morale. leonhart: i know it has the potential to do that and that is why -- del. plaskett: i asked you if it has affected the morale. leonhart: in the offices were employees attended to report misconduct, and there was nothing that happened -- i can imagine that those employees felt they lost face -- state in the agency. in a number of cases where they are reported up, they are

dea administrator ms. leonhart we were recognized you first. >> chairman chaffetz ranking member cummings, distinguished members of this committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the department of justice office of inspector general's report on sexual harassment and misconduct allegations by the departments law enforcement components. bea has a single mission, to enforce our nation's drug laws. are more than 9000 employees including over 4600 special agents are dedicated to the single mission, and each one of us took an oath, the same i took over 30 years ago to serve the citizens of the united states with honor professionalism and pride. pride. dea personnel located in over 300 offices around the world, including 67 foreign countries are doing extraordinary work under often difficult and dangerous circumstances. this includes the investigation and arrest of leaders of the most violent and sophisticated drug cartels in the world. unfortunately, poor choices made by a few individuals can tarnish t

i work with dea in afghanistan. and those folks did a great job and i think this is a, this is a disgrace. that their reputation i see and they're on some dangerous, dangerous places in afghanistan. down in helmand province. doing heroic work. those are the agents i know that work hard and upheld the dignity of this country. and worked with the local families down there the farmers, just to try to protect them. i'm proud of those dea agents. they're doing wonderful work on behalf of our country. and this is a, this is a -- a blemish, this is disgraceful that they should be associated with this activity. so, i actually feel your system is protecting these people. so, these 15 or 20 sex parties and then by the way it says here sexual harassment, it should be sexual misconduct up front. that's what we're talking about here. this is a very serious issue. and you've done nothing. you've done nothing. how about disclosure? if you can't even, if you can't prosecute them, if you can't, if you can't bring justice to the situ

agents or any non-dea or non-u.s. official? >> if i hear you right you were asking about prohibition on turning over a device? >> not having immediate supervision of the weapons and devices that belong to an agent. >> well, number one securing your weapon that's required. >> i'm not asking you about that. i'm asking you, is there any policy at the dea that would result in any kind of reprimand or punishment for not having immediate supervision of your weapons and communication devices? that is a yes or a no. >> it could fall under -- >> no. yes or no. you either have a penalty for not securing your weapon and georgia communications device because there are things in those communication device that could be used against other agents or against this country. >> it could fall under poor judgment. there's a number of areas that policies -- >> poor judgment has already been pointed out, poor judgment is not one of the official criteria. and what happened here you talked about these corrupt police officers. is it true that

with the dea. -- it doesn't matter with the dea. it is against all dea policies. and does it matter if it is legal in a particular country. it doesn't matter if it is legal in a particular area of the city. they are not to take part in that type of behavior. mr. connolly: so it is always wrong in terms of your policy no matter where it is? ms. leonhart: that is correct. mr. connolly: and that is an explicit policy? ms. leonhart: you find it in our personnel manual. mr. connolly: is it called "thou shalt not?" ms. leonhart: basically. mr. connolly: mr. horowitz? mr. horowitz: certainly that wasn't the case during the course of the years we reviewed this. mr. connolly: it was not the case? mr. horowitz: certainly not the culture and certainly not the understanding. mr. connolly: did you find an explicit policy and their personnel manual, their human resource policy, that explicitly barred such activity? mr. horowitz: it did not at that time. it does now, in light of the memo. mr. connolly: so when you said that it is a violation you meant it is a violation of the ex

non-dea or non-us official? ms. leonhart: if i hear you write, you are asking about prohibition on turning over a device? mr. palmer: not having immediate supervision of the weapons and devices that belong to an agent. ms. leonhart: number one securing your weapon -- that is required. mr. palmer: i am asking -- is there any policy tat the dea that would result in any kind of reprimand or punishment for not having immediate supervision of your weapons and communication devices? yes or no? ms. leonhart: it could fall under -- mr. palmer: yes or no? you either have a penalty for not securing -- there our things that could be used against other agents or other countries. ms. leonhart: it could fall under poor judgment -- there are a number of areas, policies. mr. palmer: it has already been pointed out that poor judgment is not an official criteria. you talked about these corrupt police officers. is it true that the same officer who helped facilitate these parties may have helped pay for the prostitutes, had control

it doesn't matter with the dea. the it's not -- it doesn't matter if it's legal in a particular country. it doesn't matter if it's legal in a particular area of a city. it doesn't matter. they're not to take part in that type of behavior. >> so it's always wrong in terms of your policy no matter where, no matter when no matter what the circumstances? >> that's correct. >> and that's an explicit policy? >> it's -- you find it in our personnel manual. you find it there's a chapter called thou shalt not? >> can you confirm that? >> certainly that wasn't the case during the years we reviewed this. that's the problem we identified here. >> it was not the case? >> certainly not the culture and certainly not the understanding based on the interviews we conducted. >> i'm going to get to that. but did you find an explicit policy in their manual human resource manual that barred such elicit activity? >> it did not at that time. it does now in light of both the administrator's memo. >> you said to me just now, that's a violati

hace una semana el departamento de justicia revelÓ a un informe que comprometÍa agentes de la dea enficial de la policÍa de colombia jugÓ un papel importante para el gobierno de los estados unidos enterara. periodista: en colombia, el paÍs que mÁs muertos ha puesto en la guerra contra las drogas, el informe causÓ indignaciÓn. >> la gente de la dea que combate el narcotrÁfico en colombia para las fiestas drogados, le paga el narcotrÁfico, algunos les pegan a las mujeres y solamente los suspenden de dos a 10 dÍas. periodista: los agentes enfrentan varios seÑalamientos, los mÁs delicados se le atribuye a un oficial extranjero. >> ademÁs, la informaciÓn no la entregÓ la dea, la entregÓ un oficial extranjero que podrÍa ser un miembro de la oficina colombiana viendo cÓmo disfrutaba los agentes las fiestas. periodista: se tratarÍa de carlos andrÉs meza, quien coordinaba operaciones antinarcÓticos de la dea, policÍa nacional, meza cumpliÓ una condena en estados unidos por recibir soborno de narcotraficantes. un documento refleja que el oficial cooperÓ con la fiscalÍa al denunciar agentes de

jorge: el director de la dea de estados unidos responderÁ preguntas del senado el martes.la comunidad evitar actividades que generen violencia. activistas de la ciudad convocaron a una reuniÓn con autoridades locales para que se nombre una junta independiente que investigue actos de mala conducta por parte de la policÍa. >> cuando estÁ fresca la indignaciÓn de ver en video, otro caso de brutalidad policial aumenta el eenojo pÚblico. una cÁmara aÉrea firmÓ la brutal paliza de agentes de california a un hombre que perseguÍan en el desierto por robar un caballo. le pegaron sin piedad cuando estaba rendido y terminÓ en el hospital. [imÁgenes] >> este video muestra los momentos finales de la persecusiÓn del hombre. al recibir una descarga elÉctrica de tazer es violentamente desmontado de un caballo que habÍa robado para huÍr de alguaciles del condado. ya con la cara en el suelo y las manos en la espalda parece tembrar por otras descargas elÉctricas mientras se aproximan otros quienes proceden a golpearlo y patearlo sin que ninguno de los agentes impida los golpes. >> es todo in

when news broke the dea agent prostitutes paid for by drug cartels there was a lot of pressure on dea grass tobrass to do something about it to fire them. michelle leanonhart didn't. >> i can't fire i can't recommend a penalty. >> you have to order for the agent. you can't discipline if you have no control. you have no control over the security clearance, what the hell do you get to do? >> now leonhart is out retiring after some lawmakers said she should get fired herself or she should resign. attorney general eric holder giving thanks saying quote i want to appreciate michelle not only for her leadership for the dea since 2007 but 35 years of extraordinary service to the dea to the american justice and the american people. just before it hit the wires administration officials said they were skeptical of her leadership. >> the president maintains a high standard for any one who serves in his administration particularly when it comes to law enforcement officials. the ig report raised serious concerns about that conduct. >> twol states, colorado and washington are dramatically transform

let's talk about the dea. clinton is supposed to give you an answer on whether she will appear before your committee. i won't even ask you if you'll subpoena her. >> our committee is not a standing committee, as you know. it's a select committee. we have to operate within the rules. i have the ability to subpoena people and documents. the house as a whole may get to where it subpoenas the server. but it's only as good as the power to compel. let's assume boehner writes that out tomorrow and she and her attorney do not comply. >> you're not going to hold her in contempt, is that what you're saying. >> what happens in the past when we hold people in contempt. it's referred to the u.s. attorney. he won't even prosecute lois lerner. it's the limitations of the legislative branch. what i want is access to the information and the documents. i don't want the legal drama. if i can be uncharacteristically courteous and give her an extra two weeks and get what i want, i'd rather did that than go through the drama with a

los agentes usaron fondos de la dea para pagar a prostitutas.ignada por ver lo que hacen algunos de los agentes que han ido a colombia a pelear contra el narcotrÁfico. >> van a la fiesta de drogas, les paga el narcotrÁfico, algunos le pegan a las mujeres. pablo: esta mujer que trabaja en un burdel en bogotÁ afirmÓ que entre sus clientes al agentes de la dea. segÚn el informe, la fiesta sexuales fueron sÓlo parte del problema, el comportamiento inapropiado de los agentes fue mucho mÁs allÁ. el departamento afirma que los agentes recibieron dinero, costosos regalos y droga. en la audiencia dijeron que los agentes estÁn fuera de control y que su castigo tiene que ser mÁs severo. el soldado colombiano alfonso madera perdiÓ una pierna cuando iba a desmantelar un laboratorio de cocaÍna en la selva. alfonso: me vi la pierna y la tenia totalmente destrozada. pablo: este escÁndalo se de la visita del presidente obama cartagena. marÍa: cada vez es mayor la cifra del departamento de policÍas que se niegan a colaborar con autoridades migratorias para detene

>> congressmen raised questions about whether dea needs new leadership and they ripped into dea thechiefd revelations of more than a dozen of section parties sponsored by drug cartel as cording to one congress member. >> it's embarrassing that we have to talk about this. >> reporter: the drug enforcement administration's chief under fire michel leonhardt's agents accused of working with the drug dealers they're going after to get hooked up with prostitutes. >> they are solicited prostitutes and had 15 to 20 section party answer uses taxpayer money to do it and i believe compromised the national security. >> reporter: stunning revelations and an inspector general report said police and an unidentified foreign country claimed they arranged section parties for dea agents including senior supervisors at the agent's u.s. government paid apartments. three agents were also given money, expensive gifts and weapons from drug cartel members according to the report. >> dea agent in bogota was accused of physically assaulting a prostitute over a payment dispute, a security guard witnessed this agent

varios agentes dijeron que los agentes de la dea estÁn fuera de control.n la selva. este escÁndalo sexual se une a varios del servicio secreto, uno de ellos con prostitutas colombianas durante la visita del presidente obama a cartagena. ilia : el alguacil del condado dade dice que busca los hombres sospechosos en la florida. la vÍctima dijo que no denunciÓ el hecho porque desconocÍa que habÍa sido violada, que se enterÓ cuando se vio en televisiÓn y cree que alguien la drogÓ. enrique: 9 profesores en escuelas pÚblicas fueron sentenciados por aumentar ilegalmente el puntaje de los estudiantes. tres recibieron penas de 20 aÑos. 180 maestro, 43 escuelas estuvieron involucrados en este fraude que consistÍa en facilitar las respuestas a los alumnos. ilia: madre iniciaron una huelga de hambre porque en un centro de detenciÓn en texas les estÁn haciendo pagar $7000 de fianza para dejarlas libres. hoy hubo manifestaciones en washington dc a favor de ellas. periodista: orando activistas se concentraron para expresarse a favor de las madres indocumentadas. los event

he says the dea agreed but has reneged on a promise to help him legally stay in the united states. legal status, he faces deportation back to his native colombia. >> i was loyal to them. i worked for them. i risked my life for them. and this is how they repay me. the united states government is sentencing me to death. >> reporter: that's because in the 1980s toro was a high-ranking member of the cartel. >> my job was to meet with heads of state with the president of nicaragua wark with the president of panama, with members of the cuban government, and convince them to let us land in certain airstrips so we could make the second leg of the trip to the united states. >> reporter: after toro got arrested for cocaine trafficking, he turned infour mant and became one of the dea's most important undercover assets around the world. you could be the street drug dealer, the street thug, or you could be the banker. >> or i down the banker or the diplomat. >> reporter: did you find it fun? >> yes i found it fun. >> he can walk the walk and talk the talk. >> reporter: the man most upset about

really we shouldn't let the drug cartels pay for the hookers for the dea agents and they let the dea chief have it. one accusing the agency -- the head of that agency of protecting the agents by not releasing their names. >> as far as protecting them, i take great offense to that. >> you do? you do? you take offense that someone who runs a 15 it to 20 prostitution parties abusing -- abusing women gets a three-day two-day, one-day, you're offended by that? >> i'm swended by their conduct. i'm offended -- >> i don't see it, though. >> by the behavior. i am trying to fix the system. >> despite the shock of the accusations lawmakers seem just as fired up that the agents were able to keep their jobs. over and over the lawmakers returned to the dea chief's claim that under the current system she can't fire them. >> what power do you have? you have to work with agents over whom you can't discipline and have no control and you have no control over the security clearance. what the hell do you get to do? >> what i can do is build on and improve mechanisms to make sure that the outcome is what

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apparently, a report released last week from the dea says that the dea agents were having sex partieswith prostitutes in colombia and they were hired by the drug cartels. ten of the agents said they attended some of the parties and surprisingly enough, the inspector general says the dea did not totally cooperate with the probe. >> okay. >> paul, a big hit for the world's oldest person who died this past week. a lady died at the age of 117 in japan. she said she felt her life actually had been kind of short. and i think it's also worth noting for whatever it's worth her husband died in 1932. so -- >> that may explain it. >> yeah. who knows? >> all right. remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweet it to us. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. >>> a framework is in place to forge a deal that would prevent iran from building a nuclear bomb. and now the politicking for public opinion kicks into high gear as president obama says he's convinced the agreement makes the world

they're still working at the dea. >> should the dea administrator be fired?lusion that a, i have no confidence in her. and if this administration truly wants to hold people accountable, they're going to have to fire her, or she is going to have to step down. they have not changed that culture in more than a decade there has been this promiscuity that has been tolerated. these were poor judgments as they were labeled as opposed to serious sexual harassment or sexual misconduct. and i'm to the point where i think she should be fire order she should resign. i don't have the confidence in her. and i don't think the committee does as a whole either. >> congressman, i want you stand by because we have more to discuss. other critically important issues out there on the agenda right now. much more with jason chaffetz right after this. bring us your baffling. bring us your audacious. we want your sticky notes, sketchbooks, and scribbles. let's pin 'em to the wall. kick 'em around. kick 'em around, see what happens. because we're in the how-do-i-get-this-startup- off-t

her departure comes after an inspector general's report revealed dea agents in colombia participated sex parties financed partly by drug lords. another report found taxpayer money was also used. the parties are believed to have gone on from 2001 until 2008. at hearing before congress last week, leonhart who has held her position since 2007 defended the dea. >> unfortunately, poor choices made by a few individuals can tarnish the reputation and overshadow the outstanding work being done at the dea. >> reporter: in a statement, attorney general eric holder credited leonhart with "innumerable instances of the dea dismantling the most violent and most significant drug trafficking organizations." the white house twice refused to say whether president obama had confidence in leonhart, a signal her tenure was coming to an end. scott, the republican and democratic leaders of the house oversight committee called leonhart's retirement "appropriate." >> pelley: major garrett reporting tonight. major, thanks very much. there were developments today in high-profile police misconduct cases. the ju

but dea tell pellegrini disagreed. she made it carry that tsarnaev was determined to be "america's worst nightmare," and he had no conscience when he maced his backpack in front of the crowd full of smiling spectators. he murdered each of them in a way that they had pain and they were scared and frightened and no time to say good-bye. this is the essence of terror, and this is a long line of testimony which will decide if tsarnaev will receive life or death. but the idea of executing 20-year-old tsarnaev is controversial. look at this recent poll that suggests 31% of boston area residents are for the death penalty, and nearly 60% are for life in prison. our aljazeera legal contributor argued that this jury will be likely less inclined to pose the death penalty. >> reporter: this is a death qualified jury, so they should be more inclined than other bostonian to give the death penalty. and they certainly shouldn't know about this poll, because they're not supposed to know what's going on, right? but i still think that th

i'm working for the dea." and he uses that information to cover allegations of his extremism. >> rotella: he talked his way out of it. soon after, at a hastily called hearing, a u.s. prosecutor asked a judge to end gilani's probation early, a highly unusual move. >> it's the only occasion i can recall it ever happening. >> rotella: howard leader was there for gilani. he says u.s. officials seemed to want to rush his client to pakistan as an operative in the new war on terror. >> i think that he was going to go back to pakistan with a view towards meeting with or gathering whatever information he could that might be useful to the u.s. government regarding certain extremist elements there. >> rotella: intelligence officials say they knew about gilani's involvement with lashkar, which would soon be designated by the u.s. as a terrorist group. but it's not clear if they understood his growing commitment. in fact, he was becoming more entangled with lashkar by the day - by early 2002, he had made his way to its cam

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you can't work at the dea, so i'm not buying it. remember, after there was a high-profile incident down in colombia, they fired a number of secret service agents and dea agents. they had given these people between 2 to 14 days paid leave. that sounds like a vacation to me. i'm not buying that. are there changes? we're going to look at those changes. >> do you think we're getting sloppy, this many years after 9/11 we're letting down our guard? what's the implication for national security? >> when you don't take somebody down and take them down hard, you say they were never getting to the capitol they're never getting in the white house. when you don't do that? guess what, you've got some real deranged people and probably some more sophisticated terrorist who is are going to take a shot at us. that can never, ever happen. these are no-fail missions. they can never fail. we have to make sure these agents, these people on the front line, know we've got their back. take them down even if it's harsh, it it won't happen again. >> congressm

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in one instance the dea official allegedly solicited prostitutes for the goodbye party.or them. he paid them with u.s. government money because come on! it was the guy's goodbye party. the report also found that three dea supervisors accepted drug money from cartel members. during the sex parties they issued laptops and blackberries were left lying around in the open. none of these things with, not the prostitutes nor the friendliness with the cartel bosses, nor the gifts, or the security risk none were reported up the chain to dea supervisors in d.c. after the sex party ig came out last month, the head was hauled before congress and asked to explain. one thing that proved hard to explain was the fact that even after the facts were known about what the agents had been doing, none of the agents involved in the sex parties thing had received anything worse than a 10-day suspension. director michelle leonhart said there was nothing she could do. they called for her to step down. today they got their wish. she has been at the high ranking position since 2004, as best as we c

. >>> we are learning this afternoon dea, the administrator of the dea, will be stepping down accordinges familiar with the situation. this is in light of troubling reports of dea agents participating in rowdy drug-fueled sex parties with colombian prostitutes, all paid for by drug cartel kingpins. ooh. justice correspondent evan perez has more now. and was this all because of the light punishments for those dea agents? >> reporter: you couldn't make it up right? no theis was like the straw that broke the camel's back for michelle leonhart. she had lost trust in the -- in the committee hearing she had a terrible performance in answering questions as to why the dea agents who were accused of this wrongdoing of the misbehavior were basically were basically just suspended for 14 days at the most and now they're still on the job. some of them still have their top secret security clearance. and she really couldn't answer those questions. that's what really did it when she lost the confidence of congress and the administration was not liking her because of the way she's handled -- the way the

. >>> the head of the dea is under fire over a prostitution scandal. michelle leonhart was grilled on capitol hill about light punishments for dea agents accused of attending sex parties while stationed in colombia engages with prostitutes paid for by drug cartels. some were suspended for as little as two days. one congressman is calling for the dea chief to step down. >>> today marks two years since the boston marathon bombing. a moment of silence will be held this afternoon following by the ringing of church bells to honor the victims. meanwhile, the judge in the trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev has told jurors they must stay away from this year's marathon which will be run this coming monday. the following day, the penalty phase will start. that's when the jury will decide if tsarnaev will spend life in prison or be sentenced to death. he was convicted last week. >>> today marks the 150th anniversary of the death of abraham lincoln. reenacters gathered yesterday at ford's theater in washington. it was there where lincoln was shot while watching a play fro

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over the ever evolving dea sex scandal.ws that many of the agents involved haven't been fired. started with agents frequenting prostitutes. has gotten worse from there. cover-ups. supervisors frequenting prostitutes. even sex parties, paid for by the drug cartels they were supposed to be taking down. susan crabtree, white house correspondent for the washington examiner, has broken many of the biggest headlines on this story. joins us now. the administrator of the dea got absolutely skewered on capitol hill. you think it was fair? >> i think it was fair. she kept saying she couldn't fire these people. and i really believe that that's a copout. i've talked to attorneys who say there needs to be due process but does it need to be years of due process? she found out in 2012 when the secret service scandal and the dea agents involved in that scandal broke. she found out about this. she could have revisited it. it certainly doesn't take three years for her to go after these guys. >> is this a cultural issue with the tecting the o

secret service, dea, veterans administration, dhs trying to get that website up and running. across this sprawling bureaucracy, we're seeing a pattern of repeated management failure. that's the picture that needs to be looked at. this government is not well-managed and we need people and above that leadership and better management. >> i agree with that. i'm just saying, we don't need to be the kremlin here. we have so many police forces. there are 32 agencies. >> they are pretty good at enforcing parking. >> but wait a minute, i'm a little surprised, juan. when he was in the air, we didn't know what he was carrying with him. he could have been carrying a bomb, a chemical agent. to say we shouldn't have shot him down, you didn't know what he was carrying. >> no. but i don't think we need to be extreme and hysterical. we need to close that gap and make sure that -- >> whoa. >> i would. here was -- >> you would shoot anybody a vehicle coming down the mall, you don't know who it is. >> we don't know who it is or what they have. >> would you shoot it down or not? >> i said no. >>

varios agentes dijeron que los agentes de la dea estÁn fuera de control.la drogÓ. enrique: 9 profesores en escuelas pÚblicas fueron sentenciados por aumentar ilegalmente el puntaje de los estudiantes. tres recibieron penas de 20 aÑos. 180 maestro, 43 escuelas estuvieron involucrados en este fraude que consistÍa en facilitar las respuestas a los alumnos. ilia: madre iniciaron una huelga de hambre porque en un centro de detenciÓn en texas les estÁn haciendo pagar $7000 de fianza para dejarlas libres. hoy hubo manifestaciones en washington dc a favor de ellas. periodista: orando activistas se concentraron para expresarse a favor de las madres indocumentadas. los eventos ocurrieron en el marco del reinicio de una huelga de hambre en texas, en el que se habla de al menos 15 mujeres deportadas sin pagar fianza. >> como no han respondido, reinician su huelga de hambre. periodista: ice vigila el centro residencial familiar para verificar que las personas recluidas estÁn consumiendo en los alimentos. al respecto, una madre que saliÓ en libertad relatÓ la realidad e

the parties were paid for by the drug cartel the dea is supposed to fight. she said she can't order the agents to be fired because of laws protecting civil servants but she said congress should change the law to allow her to fire them. >>> good morning. without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. we're here to talk about some alarming problems in our law enforcement agencies. the latest report from the department of justice inspector general outlines a number of problems with the conduct that both law enforcescement agentofficers and the agencies that managed them. first law enforcement personnel at home and abroad engaged in reprehensible sexual harassment and misconduct that jeopardized our national security. second, the agencies where they work mishandled their responses to those incidents by failing to properly report them, leading to insufficient punishment and third, the fbi and the d.e.a. tried to hide these incidents from the inspector general by improperly withholding information and encouraging employees not to cooper

director of nida. >> we started that dialogue with the dea. us to advance the science, we have to be able to provide very specific marijuana product. >> i think that would be a huge deal. >> dr. staci gruber knows what a turning point that would be. >> studies that have used marijuana from the government have been very, very helpful, but perhaps somewhat limited because, quote, street product has gone through the roof in terms of potency and strain type. the closer to real world scenarios in the lab, the better off we're going to be. >> that was fantastic. we're going to come on in and get you out. >> a real-world scenario is exactly what gruber was able to study. she didn't have to get the cannabis from ole miss. amelia taylor bought her marijuana from a local dispensary. and now we get to see what the impact has been, her brain on cannabis. now remember, she's been using marijuana every day for three months. dr. gruber found no evidence of impairment to amelia's brain. there was a change over here in the anterior singlet cortex. it is the pa

the dea is part of the department of justice, and remember when he had to send out a note a couple of this, i want to reiterate to all department personnel, including attorneys and law enforcement officers that they are prohibited from soliciting, procuring, or accepting commercial sex. raising a lot of questions, how deep is the culture that the attorney general has to send out a note like this telling people you should not engage in these illegal activities. but as you probably know tomorrow is the day that loretta lynch, who is expected to be the replacement for eric holder finally will get her vote on capitol hill, we believe and she could be sworn in as soon as this week or perhaps next. and so the oversight of all this would go from eric holder to loretta lynch. tamron? >> all right, chris jansing live for us at the white house this morning. thank you very much, chris. >>> developing now, after an outbreak of tornados last week, now severe weather, possibly even more tornados set to break out today. the latest forecast is next. >>> also ahead -- >> american cities. >> what promp

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. >>> the dea in the hot seat over agents attending sex parties paid for by colombian drug lord. fox 5 in atlanta with harsh sentences for educators in what has been called the largest test score cheating scandal in u.s. history. only two of ten took up a judge's offer to admit guilt in exchange for a light sentence. eight others received punishments of up to 20 years serving seven in prison and 13 years probation. wraz in raleigh, north carolina with the arrest of a man in connection with a shooting death at a local community college. authorities found kenneth stancil this morning sleeping on a florida beach. he's accused of gunning down a school employee yesterday. >>> this is a live look at a cloudy seattle from q-13 fox our affiliate out there. the big story an airline contractor says he fell asleep inside a plane's cargo hold. the crew and passengers heard the man banging and crying for help shortly after takeoff. the pilot returned to seattle-tacoma airport where the worker was discovered. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right

. >>> the dea sex scandal getting a whole lot worse. the house judiciary committee holding a hearing happening right now. this is live on capitol hill, while the gyrocopter is on the lawn what are they investigating? the sex parties involving agents in colombia and prostitutes bank rolled by drug cartels. it comes as a new internal report reveals some agents have been implicated as far back as 2001. at least ten staffers were in on it. three of them took money, gifts and weapons from cartel members. peter doocy live with this explosive report from washington. >> reporter: is there a lot of talk today about taxes and what your tax dollars are paying for. in this case, your tax dollars paid for ten dea agents to go to colombia on assignment and party with drug pin kings dozens of times. they were showering their guests with gifts and money and paying prostitutes to have sex with the american agents, one of whom was an assistant regional director. the newest, most troubling part of this story that dates back to '01, none of the agents invo

. >> la directora de la agencia antidrogas de estados unidos, la dea, dejarÁ su cargo en mayo.el estado de nueva york sellaron su sociedad comercial con la firmaa de dos acuerdos sobre salud y tecnologÍa. la empresa distribuirÁ programas de computadora en la isla. >> ademÁs el centro se realizarÁn pruebas clÍnicas conjuntas para desarrollar una vacuna contra el cÁncer de pulmÓn en los estados unidos. [mÚsica] >> en nuestra ventana al mundo, la fuerza naval italiana dio a conocer nuevas imÁgenes de sus naves acercÁndose a otro barco lleno de migrantes. la guardia costera informÓ que de las 446 personas abordo de la embarcaciÓn que se encontraban a 80 millas de la costa, todas fueron rescatadas. >> mientras tanto, los centros de refugio para migrantes en la isla italiana de sicilia se encuentran saturados debido al incremento de migrantes que han llegado en las Últimas semanas. el centro es uno de los mÁs grandes y alberca a unas cuatro mil personas que buscan asilo. muchos de ellos llevan en este lugar varios meses esperando una respuesta. >> un exguardia del servicio secreto co