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The DEA employs special agents, division investiga- tors, intelligence research specialists, and chemists. Since May 15, 2013, the person in charge of it all has been the DEA acting administrator, Chuck Rosenberg, who had been chief of staff and senior counselor to FBI director James Comey. Prior to working for Director Comey, Rosenberg was a partner in a Washington, DC, law firm. Before that he served as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and he has held several leadership positions with the Department of Justice, such as chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General James Comey (2004–2005), counselor to Attorney General John Ashcroft (2003–2004), and counsel to FBI director Robert Mueller (2002–2003).

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Combating Drugs Combining several strategies to carry out its mission, the DEA seeks to bring to justice powerful national and interna- tional drug dealers, as well as drug gangs, who use fear and violence to terrorize people in their communities. The DEA

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also works with state, federal, and foreign agencies to investigate those making and supplying drugs and bring them to justice. It helps these agencies destroy illegal drug laboratories and il- legal drug crops, seeking to replace these with legal crops. And the DEA trains foreign agencies to deal with drugs in their own countries. This all helps reduce the amount of drugs supplied to the United States.

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