DEA Agent Charged in Capitol Ruckus: DEA Needs Leadership
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Today, the US Attorney's Office charged a former DEA Special Agent for bringing his service weapon onto restricted Capitol grounds during the January 6th riot. One thing that stands out is the lack of any positive publicity or clear mission for the DEA. USMS Director Washington is an example of a wonderful leader who constantly ensures that his troops receive positive recognition and also provides clear leadership.
Why would someone who passes all the rigors of training to earn the title of special agent for the DEA do something so stupid
Exactly!
Your reporting on this stuff is the best! Keep it up brother
Thanks
Amazing video sir, I’ll be waiting for tomorrow’s video. Good night as well!. I definitely agree that DEA needs better leadership and people that is not afraid of showing their faces on camera. Is honestly absurd that people like that get appointed to lead a big agency such as DEA.
I never understood this but can anyone tell me why leadership is so bad nowadays and it seems to me the only people that are getting promoted in these organizations or the military are just people that don't know how to even do the job let alone lead people in doing the job. That was solely the biggest reason why I had to leave the marine corps, I couldn't handle letting some incompetent person put people in danger due to them not doing their job right. Probably for the best that I just stay as far as possible from doing these types of jobs even though it was my passion.
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I feel you man leadership has been going to shit since the late 90s but I think now we got to the point that softness and victimhood is what makes you competent to promote to high ranks.
Its because decent people who would otherwise do a good job are shamed into oblivion by incompetent people. A decent person gets demoralized, doesn't want to get involved, and this opens the door for the bottom of the barrel to take the positions.
I saw this article and it reminded me of you now i see your video lol
Hey, hope you’re doing well, I wanted your opinion on if I should try to go to college and be in rotc after high school, or if I should enlist in the military and then try to get into rotc because I want the education, but my gpa isn’t that good. I’m not sure what would be best for me?
Disclaimer: This comment is OPINION-BASED. I am NOT an expert on federal law enforcement careers, nor am I claiming to be in any kind of law enforcement role.
Short Answer to your question:
Go National Guard and do College at the same time. You’ll get military experience and an education at the same time, and likely leave school with little-to-no debt. If your GPA sucks in high school and you can’t get into a University with an ROTC program, go to a community college for a year and then transfer to that University with an ROTC program. Good luck.
Long Answer to your question:
I’m going to give you more information than what you’re asking for, but I think it’ll be of use to you because you’re still young and if I was your age, I would want someone to tell me this. I’m also going to assume you’re wanting to be in Federal Law Enforcement since you’re watching this channel.
Get your high school GPA up if you can, and apply to colleges that have an ROTC program. Hopefully you get accepted. If not, do community college for a year and then apply to a University with the program. Some ROTC Programs only require you to do two years in their program, but doing less than four years of ROTC can affect your chances of commissioning into your branch of choice and also commissioning as Active Duty instead of National Guard or Reserves (I’m assuming you want to be Active after college).
You could enlist in the National Guard or Reserves (part time) for your state and do college + ROTC at the same time. It’s a lot of work, but this is the fastest route to getting military experience and a college education. Look into the split-op program, you can literally start your military career before you graduate high school. Both National Guard and most ROTC programs can pay for your student loans too. I wouldn’t recommend the Reserves because the Student Loan Repayment Program is much more user friendly in the Guard than the Reserves because there are way more college students in the National Guard than in the Reserves. Let me say this again: the Student Loan Repayment Program SUCKS in the Reserves, go National Guard because it’s more user friendly. Don’t let a recruiter tell you otherwise. I promise I’m saving you a lot of headache. If you’re wanting to go federal law enforcement after active duty military or while you’re National Guard/Reserves, enlist as Military Police or Military Intelligence. MP will get you law enforcement experience that you can write about on your applications for DEA, FBI, USMS, ATF, IRS, etc. MI would get you a top secret clearance. You can also branch either of these when you commission as an officer, although MI is VERY competitive. That being said, Active Duty as opposed to National Guard or Reserves straight out of ROTC is also very competitive, and many commissioned officers end up staying National Guard after ROTC (mostly not by choice). If you never go active duty but decide to stay Guard or Reserves, apply for active duty orders (try to deploy or get some kind of active duty orders for at least 180 days while you’re still in the Guard/Reserves) because you’ll want that Veteran’s Preference for Federal Law Enforcement. Your Veteran’s Preference comes from being active duty military or getting 180 days of active time while you’re guard/reserves, and it’ll significantly help you get a fed job. I’d recommend waiting til you graduate college to apply for active orders.
Get your degree in something that interests you, but if you want to go federal law enforcement, get your degree in Accounting, Psychology, or go to Law School. A lot of men and women that have a degree and apply for feds have a Criminal Justice degree, so you want to stand out from those with a degree in CJ. These other degrees that I mentioned are appetizing to the feds. CJ will limit you to a career in Law Enforcement or some Legal role, the others open up a wide array of jobs for when you get out of the military/federal law enforcement. Not bashing CJ students/graduates, just providing my opinion. I have a high respect for people in law enforcement. Get a minor in Spanish. I’ve talked to some feds, and they told me that the most useful foreign language for their personnel would be Spanish. This goes for Border Patrol, USMS, and many of the other agencies.
Stay out of trouble, don’t do drugs. Don’t associate with anyone who DOES do drugs. Limit your alcohol use. Don’t steal anything. Basically be a good moral person in every aspect of your life; this includes behind closed doors. You may have all this experience and education that I mentioned above, but if you’re an immoral person, the Polygraph Tests can break you during your application process. If you question whether or not a choice could negatively affect you on a polygraph test, it probably will.
There’s more than one way into a federal law enforcement career and what I’ve listed above isn’t a golden rule or anything, but it’ll significantly increase your chances of getting in. If anyone disagrees with any of this, please let me know. I’m just trying to give advice to someone who is young or anyone else who stumbles across this comment.
One more time: I am not a federal law enforcement careers expert and I’m not claiming to be any kind of law enforcement officer, agent, deputy, or anything else related to law enforcement. I do not work in any legal role either. This comment is strictly opinion-based.
@@anonymoususer1026 Thankyou, I appreciate you taking time out of your day to give me some good advice.
@@xxblackpugxx2770 Happy to help
If you have decent hs grades, etc, why not apply for a service academy or ROTC scholarship? In my case, I barely made it through hs, so enlistment was my only real option.
@@federallawenforcementcaree9900 This is another great point. A few of my college roommates did this and it worked out well for them. Enlisting is certainly not the only option.
Magistrate is my vote.
I did not wanted to say this but since you brought both agencies. When I went in for the us marshals information session i met a us marshals that was a former dea agent i was taking to him and I asked him why he did the change of agency’s. He game me many reasons but from what I remember was that he had a son who was mentally challenged and the dea did not cared and wanted to make him move many time and that the us marshals don’t force you to move. The other one was that they worked together and the dea agent were always complaining about the dea but the us marshals never did and he wanted to jump ships and he said it was the best decision he ever made. Hope you don’t take offense since I know you were in the dea.
No offense whatsoever. Right now I would be more comfortable with USMS than any other agency.
@@federallawenforcementcaree9900 same but at this point I would take either one just to get the gs 13 and the LEAP pay.
In my opinion, the entire DOJ needs better oversight. Not just leadership, but every single agent should understand that their mistakes will get them pulled in front of the entire country and be forced to answer questions. Too often, law enforcement officers continue to make bad mistakes and build an entire career out of their mistakes and eventually basing field operations on a mistake. You might say this makes law enforcement difficult, but when you are dealing with criminal law, people’s constitutional rights need to be not only recognized, but also well communicated amongst law enforcement professionals.
I think we are at a perilous time re constitutional rights and have been since 9/11.
@@federallawenforcementcaree9900 I completely agree. 9/11 seems to be the catalyst that gave big government the excuse to start weaponizing the intelligence community and the military to spy on civilians. Everyone knew that The Patriot Act was wildly unconstitutional and was only going to be a problem because the government simply cannot let that power go once they have grabbed it. And I’m appalled by how very few agents there are who are willing to make the conscious decision and object to the power grabs of the state.
Just say no. lol
Yo dude who shot Randy Weaver's son in the back