White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has reportedly masterminded a shift in the Trump administration’s involvement and influence on criminal investigations into organized crime.
ProPublica reports that Miller has increased the White House’s ability to direct investigations against suspected drug traffickers and transnational criminal groups under the new Homeland Security Task Forces, which will be led by the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI.
The task force would essentially subsume the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) abilities as the new lead agency for narcotics enforcement while also scaling back the power prosecutors hold over investigations.
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