thank you john diedrich, for your time. >> switching topics from a.t.f. tactics and the war on gun and drugs to a call on a truce on the international war on drugs. prohibition and eradication are the official positions of the u.s. and other countries. according to damon barrett, deputy director of harm reduction international: a story in the "the guardian" claims we say see the story next spring. some european and latin american countries want drug treatment policies to take precedence over punishment and prohibition. what could that mean for the drug war in the united states. i'm joined for more by ethan nadelmann, the director with the drug policy alliance, and from rio de janiero, the director of the open society global drug police program, which advocates for change in global drug policies. great to have you both was. ethan. your organization advo case for drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. in the end does it mean trying to get legalisation of drugs across the board? >> no, a third or a little more of our work foc

i'm joined from milwaukee by john diedrich, the main reporter on the a.t.f. sting investigative reporter. this story began with you and your paper with a botched sting in milwaukee. what happened there and how did that lead you to the large story country? >> we found a series of follow-ups and stings, including agents having guns stolen, as you mentioned a mentally disabled person employed to promote the store, and they charged the individual. they arrested some of the wrong people, and committed quite a bit of damage to the landlord's property and did not pay for it. so after that story and the series ran, we looked at - the a.t.f. assured members of congress that this is an isolated incident, we put them to that test and we have been investigating for a number of months and found that it is a broader problem than they portrayed at the beginning. >> after the a.t.f. saying they weren't doing it anywhere else, you found they were doing it in half-a-dozen cities. are more going on elsewhere that you know of? >> there's a lot around the country. the a.t.f. refu

answers to talk about some of the other findings from this investigation i was joined earlier by john diedrich he's a reporter with the milwaukee journal sentinel who has been investigating this story and i first asked him to walk us through some of the other arrests of people who assisted the a.t.f. . the way this started was we had a sting here in milwaukee the had all kinds of problems including you mentioned at the outset a mentally disabled man being used to promote the operation we've been investigating this all year and what we've found in our most recent event gauging is this was not an isolated incident at the a.t.f. it used mentally disabled people in several locations around the country to promote their storefronts and then turned around and charged them at the end now i want to go ahead and talk about some of the other discoveries in your investigation things like are losing weapons things like damaging buildings can you walk us through some of the ball a point that your investigation found sure at the beginning and you're referring to a walkie one of the most shocking findings in