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[This guy (and this Nation's "war on drugs") is just plain
ludicrous.]
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McCaffrey To Leave White House Job
By ANJETTA McQUEEN
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barry McCaffrey, the military strategist and
commander who has directed the nation's war on drugs for nearly
five years, plans to leave in early January. He says he's
considering teaching offers, including a return to West Point.
``I'm enormously proud of what we've done,'' McCaffrey said
Monday in an interview. ``We had exploding rates of adolescent
drug use and we've reduced it.''
His resignation as director of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy is effective Jan. 6, two weeks before President
Clinton leaves office. By law, McCaffrey's term is indefinite. He
said announcing his intentions now gives the presidential
hopefuls a clean slate to shape their policies on drug abuse.
``It's important for me to put up the notion that my name's off
the table,'' he said.
McCaffrey, a retired Army general, has been President Clinton's
director of national drug control policy since 1996 and
previously was head of the U.S. Southern Command. In the
mid-1970s, he was an associate professor at West Point, teaching
courses in American government and national security.
``In the nearly five years (Gen.) McCaffrey has led our war on
drugs, we have made significant progress both at home and
abroad,'' President Clinton said in a statement Monday from
emergency peace talks in Egypt.
Critics who include Republican presidential candidate George W.
Bush have said the Clinton administration consistently undermined
McCaffrey's efforts to control drug abuse.
McCaffrey dismissed that notion and any suggestion that's he's
leaving out of frustration.
He said that federal funds to fight drugs have increased and that
adolescent drug abuse has fallen since he was appointed: ``We've
taken important strides in addressing a problem that costs our
society 52,000 deaths and more than $100 billion a year.''
The White House job was created in 1988 by Congress to reduce the
number of illegal drug users - especially among youth. The office
coordinates efforts among federal agencies and state and local
law enforcement officers and health officials.
When McCaffrey assumed the helm, he brought a military background
that raised hopes the office would gain purpose and focus, and be
less political.
Some of his critics said Monday that his policies have been harsh
and costly.
``His fight against medical marijuana has caused untold pain and
suffering among the seriously ill,'' said Chuck Thomas, spokesman
for the Washington-based Marijuana Policy Project, which seeks to
decriminalize the drug.
McCaffrey's also backed rigorous drug-testing programs in sports
and a plan in which the office once reviewed television scripts
for anti-drug messages before the shows aired. Recently McCaffrey
had been overseeing a controversial $1.3 billion U.S. aid package
to Colombia that includes combat helicopters, weapons and
training by the elite U.S. Special Forces to stanch the flow of
drugs out of the country.
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