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http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pma/dea.pdf


Program Summary:
Agency: Department of Justice
Bureau: Drug Enforcement Administration
Program Type: Direct Federal
Rating: Results Not Demonstrated

Program Summary:
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) enforces the nation’s drug laws. This includes preventing, deterring, and investigating the illegal growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances in, or destined for, the U.S.

The assessment indicates that the overall purpose of the program is clear but DEA activities are not unique in that other Federal agencies (e.g. FBI, Customs
Service, Coast Guard) and State and local entities have drug law enforcement responsibilities. Additional findings include:

1. DEA is unable to demonstrate its progress in reducing the availability of illegal
drugs in the U.S. While DEA has developed some strategic goals and objectives, these goals lack specificity in targets and time frames.
2. DEA recently developed two annual performance measures to assess its impact on disrupting the drug supply. However, these measures need further refinement
to establish links to an impact on drug availability, baseline data, and ambitious targets.
3. DEA managers are not held accountable for achieving results.
In response to these findings, the Administration will ensure that DEA collects appropriate performance information to determine what effect its efforts have on the drug problem. In addition, the program will:

1. Revise its strategic plan to include specific, ambitious goals with clear timeframes, continue to develop and refine existing performance measures and continue data collection and validation. DEA will continue development of more
specific measures that could assist in resource allocations, priority shifts, or other management actions.
2. Hold managers accountable for performance by identifying specific performance goals and schedules and implementing periodic reviews to assess results.
3. Contract for a comprehensive, independent evaluation of program performance.
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Your tax dollars at work.

Obviously we are not winning the war against drugs.

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And to see just how fucked up the rest of the government is, go here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budin...scorecards.html

They are using a "traffic light" rating system - green for success, yellow for mixed results, and red for unsatisfactory.

Only the NSF has a green for financial management, but red in almost all other categories. Every other agency is rate is mostly red, with a few yellows here and there.

The Bush administration has everything well in hand, I see.

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Can't throw it all in Shrub's lap, as exciting as the prospect may be.

Those messes were there long before teh Shrub (or Clinton, you dinks) got there. Just nobody wants to do anything about it.

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It does make the claim that the current administration "inherited" the situation, but Bush has been in office for 2+ years, and no evidence is shown that he has begun to correct this situation. I could understand if this had been last year's report, but more than half of his term is completed and no progress has been made. Sometime or another he has to take responsibility - he can't claim that it's "inherited" forever.

edit: It does say that this is a 2001 baseline evaluation. But it's 2003 now - where's the progress report for comparison?Maybe it isn't there because there has been no improvement?

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We've been too busy planning to blow shit up to run a silly report.

Now, if you get me in office you'll be SICK of reports. I'll force feed people statistics and print-outs until their colons explode.

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