{"id":706829,"date":"2010-04-01T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=15452"},"modified":"2010-04-01T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:53:04","slug":"exclusive-dea-director-visits-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706829","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: DEA Director Visits Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is helping in the fight to take down what has been called Taliban\u2019s nacro-insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>In the first visit by a DEA administrator to an active war zone, Michele Leonhart is spending three days meeting with U.S., coalition and Afghan officials.<\/p>\n<p>The DEA now has more than 90 special agents and support personnel deployed in Afghanistan. In the last 6 months, 3 DEA agents have been killed in action and another was wounded. I interviewed the DEA&#8217;s acting administrator while she was in Marjah &#8211; site of a major offensive against the Taliban last month.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=4133154&#038;w=400&#038;h=249\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/\">FoxNews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is helping in the fight to take down what has been called Taliban\u2019s nacro-insurgency. In the first visit by a DEA administrator to an active war zone, Michele Leonhart is spending three days meeting with U.S., coalition and Afghan officials. The DEA now has more than 90 special agents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XSt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}