DEA's New Administrators Can Congress Get a Clue? (Karen Tandy and the DEA) Despite proof of prosecutorial overzealousness and ignorance of key policy documents, Karen Tandy breezed through her confirmation as DEA Administrator, with the lone rational objections coming from Senator Durbin of Illinois. (8/3/03) DEA Bad Girl Michele Leonhart The new nominee for Deputy Administrator of the DEA is a gung-ho drug warrior with questionable ties to a discredited super-snitch, and little regard for the truth. (8/5/03)