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‘Death Knell’: Biden DOJ Retaliated Against DEA Agent Who Tried to Stop Flood of Fentanyl, Attorney Says

The Biden Justice Department retaliated against the Drug Enforcement Administration agent who exposed an operation allowing hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to enter the United States, the whistleblower’s lawyer said.

DEA Special Agent David Howell, working in New Mexico, objected to the process of allowing the highly lethal drug to enter the country, arguing that the Justice Department’s goal was to trace the drugs to large drug trafficking organizations for high-profile arrests.

“The U.S. attorney’s office became more and more upset with his making these disclosures, and ultimately they told the DEA in New Mexico they would no longer work with Special Agent Howell,” Tristan Leavitt, president of Empower Oversight, a whistleblower advocacy group, told the Daily Signal. “They refused to take any of his cases, and for a federal agent that’s really kind of a death knell to your career.”

The Office of Special Counsel, a watchdog agency within the Justice Department, has found in past cases that refusing to work with someone qualifies as retaliation, Leavitt explained.

The fentanyl operation has drawn comparisons to “Operation Fast and Furious,” a Justice Department gunwalking scandal that occurred during the Obama administration.

Leavitt said that early on, Howell began piecing together that the U.S. attorney’s office was focused on something other........

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