the d.e.a. had just pulled off a string of extraordinarily successful captures of high- value terrorism targets around the world, like afghan drug lords. >> braun: d.e.a. agents live for the hunt. >> keteyian: but, mike, no one had even gotten a sniff on this guy. >> braun: let me tell your something, armen-- when i'm sitting there next to juan, and my guys are sitting across the table from him-- the very best that our government's got to offer-- and he tosses this out on the table, and i look him in the eyes, and they're looking back at me, like, "we'll do this. we can do this." >> zarate: but it was about a 5% chance in the back of my mind. and so, you know, i wished them well and i went back to the white house. >> braun: mike braun's thinking 95%, okay. 5% and 95% make 100%. he was going down, he was in our crosshairs. >> keteyian: the d.e.a. supervisor put in charge of the hunt for viktor bout was louis milione. >> louis milione: we felt that we could create a scenario that would pull him in.

. >>> the d.e.a. says five chemicals you can find in a head shop should be in the same drug category as heroin and cocaine. people use the stuff to make fake pot. the feds are about to ban the ingredients in synthetic marijuana. linda yee shows us there are reports of users having bad trips and even worse. linda? >> reporter: dana, it is sold legally here in the head shops and smoke shops here. but in 30 days synthetic marijuana will be known as a controlled substance. head shops sell them as incense or herbal spices. people smoke spice or k2 to get high. in 30 days it will be outlawed. they are not bi sellers. >> the staff you are smoking right now is this. >> organic. >> reporter: the fake pot is mixed up in a lab made from five different chemicals the d.e.a. says are dangerous and will reclassify as controlled substanc s. >> so they put it onto the herb and you smoke it. >> reporter: hospital emergency rooms and poiseon control centers say some people feel a buzz from smoking it. many more get paran

as chief gascon just said, last month on september 25, the d.e.a. with its state and local counterparts throughout the nation conducted its firstever nationwide prescription takeback program. on that day in just a four-hour period, we collected over 242,000 pounds of prescription drugs nationwide. thanks to the overwhelming response of the public that these unused and unwanted prescription drugs have been in people's medicine cabinets for years sometimes are now, have now been properly disposed and communities are safer and more likely to be drug-free. the overwhelming support we got by the public demonstrated that there is a clear need for a permanent solution to the problem of safely disposing unused and unwanted prescription drugs. and the september 25 event highlighted the value of that recently pass secure and responsible drug disposal act of 2010. the president just signed this into law yesterday and this legislation is going to allow d.e.a. to create a process that could take up to 18 months, but to create a process where we can turn in our pr

within minutes, the thai police and d.e.a. agents burst into the room. >> milione: we see bout across the far end of, like, a boardroom-type table, standing up with his hands inside his briefcase. and they give him the command to put his hands up. and he hesitates. and they immediately focused in with their weapons and gave him the command again. >> keteyian: are you thinking, "we've come all this way to see viktor bout shot by a thai policeman?" >> milione: the thought did cross my mind that something really bad is going to happen to him right here. but then, he complied. >> keteyian: it turned out there was no weapon in the briefcase. the disarming of viktor bout was now officially complete. >> milione: the thais cuff him. he's taken into custody. smulian's taken into custody. >> keteyian: does bout say anything? >> milione: "the game is over" or something like that. >> keteyian: "the game is over." >> milione: right. >> keteyian: but then, a new game began. bout became the center of a legal tug of war between the u.s. and ru

my understanding is planning usually contacts 500 feet around the site. d.e.a. d.e.a. is the parts should have that range around the database -- the idea is that the parks should have arranged around the database. >> that is one of our largest challenges conditional use authorization is different from a design review. our main policy it -- our main problem is it can be rather expensive.

to a legal substance which makes people smoking it feel like they're high on pot i mean discuss the d.e.a.'s latest move with jacob sullum senior editor of reason magazine and reason dot com and the. news today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying operation to rule the day. i. did you hear that over the weekend there was another major terrorism arrest here in the u.s. nineteen year old mohamed osman mohamud was arraigned this afternoon on a charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction of the maximum penalty here is life in prison a mama was arrested friday night in portland after f.b.i. agents say that he tried to detonate what he thought was a massive car bomb at a holiday tree lighting ceremony now the arrest of muhammad was the result of a very long undercover operation by the feds who reportedly alerted to muhammad by his father several months ago and the thirty six page arrest warrant lays out in detail a plan designed to kill or injure thousands of portland residents including women and children they w

the d.e.a. because, really, here's a guy a man of many worlds-- he's born in the united states, has a u.s. passport, doesn't look particularly pakistani. but he grows up in pakistan, yet he comes back to the united states and really slides into a decadent world of drug dealing and partying. and he somehow manages, like a chameleon, to combine all those worlds. >> suarez: here is a guy that seems to be screaming "look at me," and yet, headley somehow gets overlooked. >> i think law enforcement and intelligence have a tendency to put people in boxes, and they perhaps had a view of what an islamic extremist is. and he, for a series of reasons, didn't conform to that. there's a series of warnings starting back in october 2001, even before he begins training with lashkar, from girlfriends, wives, associates of the family. there are half a dozen warnings between late 2001 and just after the mumbai attacks to u.s. authorities. >> suarez: yet headley wasn't arrested until last october, nearly a year afte

the intelligence community again. i also washinged -- worked to provide d.e.a. with specialized intelligence aircraft to use in afghanistan. the intelligence collected from this plane not only helps war fighters on the ground, but the information is also admissible in court, meaning narco terrorists in afghanistan could more likely face criminal charges in the united states. i'm very proud of the work in congress to help our men and women in uniform fight overseas. and more proud to have served alongside them. in december of 2008 i became the first member of the house to serve in an eminent danger area when i deployed to kandahar, afghanistan, to serve as a special advisor to general nicholson for regional command south, focused on counternarcotics. a year later i returned to afghanistan to serve again. each time i'd become more committed to the men and women serving over there and their mission. today, nine years after the first american boots hit the ground in afghanistan, the mission remains vital to our security. we must leave afghanistan only after victory i

is the d.e.a. going to give him a development a.> with a pathway to citizenship they will be. >> there isn't a pathway and under this congress there won't be a pathway. >> maybe this will push the federal government to do so. >> america -- leslie, were you have paying attention on november 2 when america said no, we are going the wrong direction? that's -- >> i thought america said they wanted the economy turned around. they wanted more jobs. i didn't hear america saying they didn't want illegals going to college in california. >> i'm going to tell you something. 10% of the illegals in this country work farm jobs. the rest of them work good jobs americans would love to have. you want to fix america's economy, sentd illegals home and you will put 10 million americans back to work and i'm not talking about picking beans. shannon: we are talking about a $23,000 subsidy for these kids. i would think this money has to come from people living and working in the state. their parents paying into the system. if we have people who show up and

the d.e.a. arch, they're specifically allowing access to marijuana in california and if we want to have a debate about the risks of marijuana, it has to be an honest debate. you can't tell people that marijuana is medicine. the marijuana policy project mr. fox works for could have taken the millions of dollars that they've spent in these states, gone to the f.d.a. and convinced the f.d.a. with the science that they say they have that marijuana is truly medicine. listen, even the noble drugs like penicillin or the polio vaccine didn't come to us because we voted to receive those drugs. they came to us after the science was proven that these are effective and useful drugs. >> ok. >> marijuana is not medicine until we hear it from the f.d.a. >> all right. and we have not heard that yet. you're absolutely right. paul charlton from phoenix and steve fox from d.c., thanks very much for joining the debate. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> all right, what do you think? e-mail us right now, friends at foxne

bout arrived here in the united states last night flown in d.e.a.ane from child where he was arrested in 2000 will after that d.e.a. sting. he thought he was selling armaments to a columbian narcoterrorist group. among the items, get a load of this, 700 air to missiles. explosives, ultra light planes that could fire grenades and missiles. u.s. officials says there was enough to arm a small country. >> many believe bout did not care who his weapons killed. but he did care. based on recorded conversations, bout said he preferred murdering americans. >> well, after his not guilty plea, weighs held with no bail. shepard? >> shepard: even after he said he preferred killing americans, he insists he is not guilty. >> that he does. he said he is innocent and there is even a web site victor bout.com. it claims he is an innocent russian businessman who is a victim of lies it calls him, ready for this charismatic, well-dressed, dynamic. but it also says, quote, bout is not and never was an arms dealer but that final judgment may eventually be up to a federal j