The Department of Justice (DOJ) has ordered the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to suspend searches of passengers at airports and other places after a DOJ watchdog report found “concerns” over the way DEA officials were conducting the searches.
In a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Michael E. Horowitz, on Thursday, it was revealed that the OIG had found instances in which DEA officers were “not complying with its own policy on consensual encounters conducted at mass transportation facilities.”
The press release from Horowitz found the DEA not following its policy regarding consensual encounters with passengers, and this “resulted in DEA and DEA Task Force Group personnel creating potentially significant operational and legal risks.”
Examples of how the DEA was “creating potentially significant operational…
