America lost the War on Drugs. Shhh, don't say it too loud!

I was looking for articles for my Social Issue report, and stumbled across this little bit from the RollingStones. Here's the link: America Lost the War on Drugs

They were, says John Coleman, then the DEA's assistant administrator for operations, "filled with DEA reports" - internal documents that laid out, in extraordinary detail, the agency's repeated attempts to capture Escobar.

"He had shelves and shelves and shelves of these things," Coleman tells me. "It was stunning. A lot of the informants we had, he'd figured out who they were. All the agents we had chasing him - who we trusted in the Colombian police - it was right there. He knew so much more about what we were doing than we knew about what he was doing."