Trey Gowdy Destroys DEA: "What the Hell Do You Get to Do?"

well now recognize the gentleman from South Carolina mr. Gowdy for five minutes Thank You mr. chairman administrator leonhardt if an agent stateside were soliciting a prostitute that was provided by a drug conspiracy he was investigating what would punishment would you recommend I can't recommend a punishment I would just hope that would be thoroughly investigated and so you're telling me nobody cares what the administrator of the DEA thinks should happen to an agent you're powerless to express your opinion you have no First Amendment right when it comes to who works for your agency I have expressed my opinion what was your ways what did you express what did you think the proper sanction was last year I sent a email and I sent a memo to every employee in DEA and put them on notice that this kind of conduct but not my question my question must have been ambiguous because I wasn't talking about future conduct I was talking about past conduct what punishment did you represent for conduct that happened in the past under the civil service law I cannot recommend a penalty I can't intervene in the disciplinary process I can't even make a recommendation what what does it take to get what would it hypothetically what would it take to get fired as a DEA agent because the agents I used to work with were worried about using their car to go pick up dry cleaning they were actually worried about using their ogl ogv to pick up dry cleaning they were worried about being disciplined apparently that world has changed do you know whether any of the prostitutes were underage I don't know that what would that impact of whatever recommendation you might have in terms of a sanction I don't recommend the sanction I fire I can't recommend a penalty there's a guide that the deciding officials abide by and they have they have a penalty guide that they look at and the penalty guide for this kind of activity is anything from reprimand to removal how about security clearance do you have any impact over that whether or not an agent has a security clearance no there's adjudicative guidelines and that has to go I'm not kidding obviously what power do you have you have to work with agents over whom you can't discipline and have no control and you have no control over the security clearance what the hell do you get to do what I can do is build on and improve mechanisms to make sure that the outcome is what we believe the outcome should be and that is what happened in Cartagena that is what's going to happen moving forward hi inspector general Horowitz I find that stunning let me ask you this did the did the agents know that the cartels were providing the prostitutes what we found congressman from looking in the file was that they should have known given they're trained law enforcement agents and they were dealing with corrupt law enforcement local law enforcement that was providing them with the prostitutes as well as the various gifts were they supposed to be investigating these cartels they were so they are receiving prostitutes from cartels that they were supposed to be investigating and she can't fire those agents you agree with her she can't fire him I think as a matter of title 5 she can't directly intervene and fire them I do think one of the concerns we outline in the report as to DEA and the other three agencies is how they adjudicate these cases they under charge them in some instances and so at the EA for example sexual harassment if you're charged with that there's only one punishment removal but if you're charged with conduct unbecoming or poor judgment which isn't even actually a category then you've got a range of penalties and so one of the issues is you know as a form of prosecutors how you charge the case and that has a consequence well mr. chairman I don't know what would need to be done but I like my friend from South Carolina find it stunning that you can solicit prostitutes a administrator Lee nor do we know whether in the prostitutes were underage do we know whether any of them were part of any human trafficking rings because the Bogota case happened a decade ago there were no interviews of prostitutes on the more recent one the Cartagena one it it did not identify an age for the prostitute involved miss Chairman I would just find it impossible to explain to any reasonable minded person how an agent cannot be disciplined for soliciting prostitutes from drug cartels that they were ostensibly investigating I if they find out stunning if the gentleman will yield if somebody murdered somebody could you fire if someone murdered someone there would be criminal charges and that's how they'd be fired but if they were could you take away their security clearance the offices security programs can review security clearances and take their clearances just as they did with the three agents in the car Tehama incident gentleman from South Carolina gentleman yield for just a second I'm sorry I heard you say there's one thing you could actually fire somebody for which is sexual harassment so let me see if I'll get this correct mr. Horowitz mrs. lenhardt if I flirt with a co-worker in the office and that constitutes sexual harassment I can be fired but I can take an underage hooker from a cartel on investigating and you can't fire me is that is that what we're talking about here action congressman if you charge the offense removal as a possibility if you charge something less conduct unbecoming or poor judgment you don't charge what actually occurred that's when the the ability discipline is limited and that's the concern we found as you know in our report thank you thank the gentlemen both from self

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Length: 7min 3sec (423 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 14 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/bluddre58]

This is a good reminder of what we're up against. If the previous administrator wouldn't discipline her agents for their involvement in cartel-funded prostitution, then how can we expect her replacement to come to a reasonable decision about kratom.

This is why we must keep working, keep calling, keep spreading information. Even if the ban goes into effect, we stay together as a community and keep fighting these slimy bastards.

[u/DerkBerk-]

fucking spineless bitch. Sorry but that made me queasy, how fucking "deplorable" do you have to be to not be livid at what happened in this instances. These are the same DEA agents who are going to be busting down your door over some fucking kratom. A fucking disgrace and shame.

[u/SinisterSinister]

Fuck the DEA. Somebody has to put a stop to their bullshit.

[u/tpotts16]

Well when you think about it this makes sense what Ms. Leonhart is saying even if I hate the DEA. They do not want the administrator being leveraged by the president to fire career civil servants just because she is unhappy politically with their stances on issue. This is probably the reason why she cannot fire anyone for day to day issues. Without this rule civil agencies could just get wiped out due to politics if one administrator really wanted to do so. There is probably some firing panel that independently reviews fire able offenses based on an in-house system of determination.

[u/ZROthamocitydon]

I like Trey Gowdy a lot the more I look into it, the more I respect him.

[u/justkellerman]

I don't want to come off as defending the DEA or Leonhart, so I'll open with her being unable to say whether Marijuana is worse than Crack and Meth due to needing to maintain braindead lies of omission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFgrB2Wmh5s

But my understanding in this case is that Title V really did prevent her from directly firing anybody. She spinelessly dances around expressing any opinions, which is shitty, but from what I understand, her basic position in this clip is more or less correct and Gowdy is just yelling at her because why the hell not?

[u/hardycore4]

Such insanity.

[u/[deleted]]

It's all good for DEA agents to have coke & hooker parties. Just don't you do it though. Big trouble if you get caught

[u/oneindividual]

Trey Gowdy is FUCKED UP I hate him but this was cool to watch.