WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s chief will step down within weeks, the Obama administration said yesterday, as a congressional panel planned to examine whether DEA agents divulged secrets at sex parties that Colombian drug lords may have staged.
Michele Leonhart will leave as DEA administrator in mid-May, said a statement from the Justice Department, which contains the DEA and other major law enforcement agencies.
“I want to express my appreciation to Michele, not only for her leadership of the DEA since 2007, but also for her 35 years of extraordinary service to the DEA,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in the statement.
