August 28, 2006 2:28PM 

# A Drug Warrior Almost, Sort of, Nearly Gets to the Truth 

By [Radley Balko](https://www.cato.org/people/radley-balko) 

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[Hmm…](http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=August&x=200608221335291xeneerg0.3003199)

> No nation has suffered as much — or sacrificed more — in the global war on illegal drugs than Colombia, says Karen Tandy, administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

As drug policy blogger [Pete Guither notes](http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2006/08/22.html#a1738), Tandy wasn’t apologizing.

But she [should have been](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=2783).

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