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sophisticated communication divisions and services to laundering money through electronic value transfers. they use innovative transportation methods, using drugs in everything from planes to tunnels to wooden ka ncanoes fully submersible submarines. we can never let up or we will never catch up. dea and our partners are successfully disrupting, dismantling and destroying major drug trafficking networks. our enforcement actions are reducing the availability of drugs and the harm they cause. our efforts are integral to our nation's comprehensive drug control strategy. one of the highe...

clean energy source? >> yes. >> is there a reason why you left it out of your testimony? >> no. natural gas is the clean eest o the fossil fuel resources. >> you should have development into it as a clean energy source. >> i think the natural gas business is so well-developed that the private sector does further r and d needed in that domain. we do need federal r and d to ensure that hydrofracturing can be done in a way that protects drinking water and protects other environmental values. you're a scientist. is there a doulted case of contamination of drinking water from hydrofractur...

>> it's important to figure out how we can minimize this criminalization and punishment concept by replacing it whip with health and treatment services. i mean if this is only lock them up and throw away the key, it doesn't, i don't think, shed more light in a substantive way that this hearing this morning could bring to this subject. and i thank the chairman for the additional time. >> without objection, all members' opening statements will appear in the record. before introducing ms. leonhart i'm going get into a lock them up and tloep away the key and decide not to the charge situ...

Hello and welcome to "justice." we start tonight with this week's most talked about legal cases. defense attorney and former prosecutor joey jackson and former assistant united states attorney fred. thanks for joining us this evening. first up, 23-year-old daniel chong arrested by dea in a drug sweep at a friend's house. after questioning, put in a holding cell, handcuffed and foregotten for four days. no food. no water. no toilet. here he and h his attorney describe the ordeal. >> it was pitch plaque. black trying to write sorry, mom. >> he screamed hundreds of times for help. he began to dig...