DEA Head to Resign Amid Reports Agents Assaulted Prostitutes at Cartel Sex Parties

‘She has been resisting some of the administration’s efforts on marijuana’

BANFIELD: "The head of the DEA is expected to step down and step down soon. All of this is happening in the wake of a scandal over DEA agents who were allegedly attending sex parties paid for by Mexican drug cartels. Sounds like the plot of a movie and it's not. It's the story that CNN justice correspondent Evan Perez is breaking. He joins me live now from Washington. So this is Michele Leonhart and, Evan, she did not do so well before her House Oversight Committee critics when she had to step before them and answer questions last Tuesday. How did we spiral into now having to step down?" 
PEREZ: "You know, this has been in the works, Ashleigh, for some time. You know, there have been -- there's been dissatisfaction, frankly, inside the Obama administration with her performance at DEA, as the head of DEA, in part partly because she was -- been, you know, resisting some of the administration's efforts on marijuana. As you know, the federal government has kind of stepped aside to allow the states to expert with legalization of both medicinal and recreational uses of marijuana. And she has kind of been the stick in the mud on that effort all along. So they've been unhappy with her for some time. The issue has been, you know, they could never find really the right time to get rid of her. This hearing that happened last week that you made reference to, which was an awful, awful performance by any standard, really kind of cemented the end of her tenure there."

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