{"id":2617704,"date":"2026-06-23T10:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-biden-admin-knowingly-let-over-1-million-deadly-fentanyl-pills-onto-us-streets-says-dea-whistleblower-we-poisoned-our-community\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:09:31","slug":"bombshell-biden-admin-knowingly-let-over-1-million-deadly-fentanyl-pills-onto-us-streets-says-dea-whistleblower-we-poisoned-our-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-biden-admin-knowingly-let-over-1-million-deadly-fentanyl-pills-onto-us-streets-says-dea-whistleblower-we-poisoned-our-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombshell: Biden Admin Knowingly Let Over 1 Million Deadly Fentanyl Pills Onto US Streets, Says DEA Whistleblower &#8211; &#8216;We Poisoned Our Community&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbombshell-biden-admin-knowingly-let-over-1-million-deadly-fentanyl-pills-onto-us-streets-says-dea-whistleblower-we-poisoned-our-community%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2617704&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the failure of the DEA during the Biden administration to intervene in the influx of fentanyl into New Mexico, despite having prior knowledge of the large-scale arrival of the drug. According to whistleblower DEA Special Agent David Howell, hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills entered the state while the agency watched without acting, leading to preventable overdose deaths.Howell criticizes the DEA&#8217;s approach, stating they prioritized making cases over saving lives, resulting in at least 1.8 million fentanyl pills being allowed to reach the streets. Despite meaningful busts, overdoses continued to rise, with a 21% increase in New Mexico in 2024, even as nationwide rates fell.Officials like U.S. Attorney Alex Uballez justified the policy by aiming to catch big drug dealers,but critics argue this <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >approach disregards established protocols meant<\/a> to prevent trafficking. Whistleblower organizations and former officials contend that the DEA&#8217;s inaction and the decision to let drugs flow contributed directly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">rising death toll<\/a>, contrasting thes tactics with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-breaks-silence-on-giving-january-6-tapes-to-tucker-carlson\/\" title=\"Kevin McCarthy Breaks Silence On Giving January 6 Tapes To Tucker Carlson\">protocols adopted<\/a> after other scandals like Fast and Furious that emphasize interception over passive observation. the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-immigrant-detained-as-person-of-interest-in-rape-of-13-year-old-girl-at-park\/\" title=\"Undocumented Immigrant Held as Suspect in Assault of Teen at Park\">article highlights concerns<\/a> about systemic misconduct and the prioritization of big cases over public health.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even as overdoses piled up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the Biden era, the Drug Enforcement Administration watched fentanyl come in and did nothing, according to an agency whistleblower.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills arrived in New Mexico between 2023 and 2025 while DEA agents watched and did nothing, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dea-fentanyl-unseized-drugs-new-mexico-8f5b546e668e5007c64078da74b90903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe poisoned our community to make cases,\u201d DEA Special Agent David Howell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough our own willful blindness, we get to say, \u2018We don\u2019t really know what happened to the drugs.\u2019 But we 100% got people killed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Howell said the issue was not that the DEA did not know fentanyl was flooding into New Mexico. It was that it did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did nothing but sit back and watch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Howell said that although some busts eventually took place, the DEA has no idea what happened to drugs it watched enter New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The DEA and federal prosecutors, he added, \u201care placing themselves in a precarious position where they will not be able to prove that the fentanyl they could have stopped did not result in the death of a person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howell estimated DEA agents allowed at least 1.8 million fentanyl pills to be delivered when they could have intervened.<\/p>\n<p>A 2025 bust under the leadership of former Attorney General Pam Bondi seized more than 3 million fentanyl pills. Despite that, overdose deaths rose 21 percent in New Mexico last year, even as rates fell nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount we ultimately seized was hitting the streets every month while that case was going on,\u201d a former DEA supervisor said.<\/p>\n<p>The supervisor\u2019s name was withheld, because he feared the kind of retribution visited upon Howell, who was chained to a desk and downgraded in his performance reviews after making his complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Uballez, the U.S. attorney in New Mexico from 2022 through last year, said drugs were allowed in to catch big dealers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bigger fish are worth catching,\u201d Uballez said, \u201cand that will save more lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former policy of letting drugs come in is a relic of the past, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current leadership of this office is focused on aggressively investigating and prosecuting fentanyl trafficking and disrupting the criminal organizations responsible for distributing these drugs,\u201d Tessa DuBerry, a representative of the office, said.<\/p>\n<p>An attorney representing Howell said the DEA broke its own rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDEA has a campaign that says one pill can kill, and so the DEA allowing this to happen was really significant. It was driven also by the US Attorney\u2019s Office in New Mexico,\u201d attorney Tristan Leavitt, president of whistleblower organization Empower Oversight, said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/cover-dea-whistleblowers-lawyer-says-client-silenced-more-1m-pills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowell\u2019s view was, if you have fentanyl in front of you, you need to interdict it,\u201d Leavitt said. \u201cThat\u2019s how we save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt compared what the DEA did with the Obama-era Fast and Furious scandal in which the federal government allowed guns to flow to Mexican drug cartels in hopes of making a major bust regarding weapons trafficking. It never did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Fast and Furious, the Justice Department headquarters adopted a protocol that said if you have a wiretap and you know that firearms are going to be trafficked, you have to try and stop them,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, in 2019 they adopted a similar protocol for fentanyl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the Justice Department\u2019s guidance was really ignored in Albuquerque, because the U.S. attorney decided to cowboy and do his own thing in hopes of making a bigger case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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