Okay, thank you. My time has expired mr. Chairman, i just would like to pursue which at some point fiscal issue of trading because i think it has great bearing on what is allowed to happen. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Now recognize that children from north carolina, mr. Meadows, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Ms. Leonhart, youve been with dea for how many years . Thirtyfive. Thirtyfive years and as i understand it about five years in your current position . Since 2010. So you take this very seriously being part of Law Enforcement. I enjoy great relationship with Law Enforcement back home. And in the standards of which they take the standards that are violated by some within our ranks really paint a very bad picture for the rest to serve diligently, would you agree with that . Yes. These are, you know a few compared to the 4600 agents that work for dea. We are very proud of our agency ended its is hard. And it should hit you hard it sounds like you know you keep saying youre ap
Any agency. She doesnt have the right to fire people. Unless you change that law and get these people the ability to fire people sa merically when they were found in you know, a proper process and a speedy process to violate whether its sexual assault, sexual harass m, youll have this all these problems continue across the scope of all of our Civil Service systems. The only one exempt is fbi. Well get that on the record as some point i hope. Yield back. Recognize the Ranking Member mr. Lynch the gentleman from massachusetts, whos the ranking me. Thank you mr. Chairman. I want to thank the Ranking Member for allowing me to go in his place. How do you hold people accountable if you are not able to discipline them . The system in place, its the three tooered system. The inspectors who youre not answering me question. Briefly, how do you hold people accountable when you cannot discipline them when they do like okay, so, we got 15 to 20 sex parties. 15 to 20. Weve got all these allegations.
Theres an institute for the arctic people thats been abolished. I dont think its a priority like it is in the u. S. Weve gotten into the end of our time. I think this is is a very, a very opportune year. We have the arrival of the u. S. Chairmanship. We have paris Climate Change at the end of year the summit. Thank you for bringing the expertise you have. Its been astonishing to listen and we know you had to travel a bit of a distance to get here. Thank you for your leadership. Watching you over the course of this morning has exhausted me. Congratulations. Thank you for your Great Questions and comments and your patience and sticking with us. Thank you all. Were adjourned. Thank you. [ applause ] a live look at the New Hampshire Republican Party what its calling the leadership summit with potential republican candidates. Among those speaking to the group include new jersey governor chris christie. Former governor rick perry and also senator marco rubio. We just saw former governor jim
During this period . Part of the problem here and the frustration, i think, of the committee is that its taken so long because you had no policy to go up the chain of command. And so you can tell me, well this was 2003 and 2004, but i tell you if i was there, id want to know exactly what happened then so id make sure it wasnt happening now. One part of the investigation was to go through and audit and do just that. From that period . From that period . Yeah. To look at the books from that period of time. We understand, again, from one of these cooperating witnesses, he could obtain, this is a quote, prostitutes for agents from the dea bogota office. This is what the cooperating witness said. He would pay the girls to come to the parties, then the agents would pay the girls directly for any sex they wanted. He recalled getting prostitutes for at least 15 to 20 parties. Werent the dea agents in colombia there to crack down on the agents who were on the cartels who were given funds to pay