House Panel to Review U.S. Counter-Narcotics Programs

Posted by Stephen Peacock - July 7, 2005 at 10:59 pm
U.S. counter-narcotics programs will be addressed during a July 12 hearing of a House Appropriations Committee panel. The Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Subcommittee will meet at 2 p.m. in room #2359 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.  No further details are currently available.
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I'm currently a high school English teacher and writer. I'm also a former Washington, DC, journalist, having worked for Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily (WID), investigative newsletters that cover the telecommunications, broadcast and Internet industries. Following the 9/11 attacks, my news beat expanded beyond Capitol Hill telecom/TV/IT policy and began to include technology-policy coverage at the Pentagon and Dept. of Homeland Security. I've written over a thousand articles about government and industry affairs, and I'm pleased to say that I was the reporter who broke the story about the Total Information Awareness surveillance/data-collection initiative of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I've written articles for publications including NACLA Report on the Americas, Drug Enforcement Report, Corrections Journal, and The Tampa Tribune. I've also written a memoir about my former career as a plainclothes security officer of the Helmsley Palace hotel in New York City, Hotel Dick: Harlots, Starlets, Thieves & Sleaze.
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Counter-Narcotics Program should be Domestic

Submitted on July 8th, 2005 by Benjamin Melançon
A "Foreign Operations" subcommittee will review U.S. counter-narcotics programs?  Given the possibility that now methamphetamine is the U.S. number one drug problem, maybe a domestic committe should be looking into this.  And dumping poison from airplanes, shooting down missionaries, and arming and training paramilitaries and terrorists could be given a rest.

Meth Galore

Submitted on July 16th, 2005 by Stephen Peacock
Benjamin:

It's ironic that you mention domestic production and use of methamphetamine, because there's an epidemic of it here in the hills of northeastern Pennsylvania, where the deep woods provide an ideal setting for the chemical-spewing meth labs. The irony lies in this fact: the co-chairman of the Foreign Ops subcommittee is none other than Rep. Don Sherwood (R-Pa.), representative of the sprawling 10th Congressional District of this section of rural Pa.

While I don't doubt that Sherwood would like to see the scourge of meth eliminated from his district, he's such a devoted Bushie that he spends most of his time figuring out how to help the President carry out his misguided international policies.

Forgive me for diverging slightly from NarcoSphere-specific policy issues, but while I'm on the subject of Sherwood I'd urge you to take a peek at a blog I've created called SherwoodWatch.org, which attempts to provide his constituents with a better perspective on his legislative activities. Boy oh boy has it sparked some outrage -- as well as applause -- from folks in the region. A recent front-page Sunday edition feature report on my efforts helped spark that debate, thanks to the Times-Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a mainstream Knight-Ridder-owned paper which unabashedly gave this independent journalist some surprising and much-needed exposure.

SP

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I'm currently a high school English teacher and writer. I'm also a former Washington, DC, journalist, having worked for Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily (WID), investigative newsletters that cover the telecommunications, broadcast and Internet industries. Following the 9/11 attacks, my news beat expanded beyond Capitol Hill telecom/TV/IT policy and began to include technology-policy coverage at the Pentagon and Dept. of Homeland Security. I've written over a thousand articles about government and industry affairs, and I'm pleased to say that I was the reporter who broke the story about the Total Information Awareness surveillance/data-collection initiative of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I've written articles for publications including NACLA Report on the Americas, Drug Enforcement Report, Corrections Journal, and The Tampa Tribune. I've also written a memoir about my former career as a plainclothes security officer of the Helmsley Palace hotel in New York City, Hotel Dick: Harlots, Starlets, Thieves & Sleaze.