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Cannot be fired by their boss. that s the claim from the head of the drug enforcement administration today during a heated hearing in congress. she was trying to explain to lawmakers why knows agents still have their jobs, the only punishment handed out two to ten days of unpaid leave which one congressman calls a vacation. a justice department investigation exposed the scandal last month and we reported on it here, that investigation found that drug cartels in columbia paid for dea agents stationed there to party with prostitutes not one but over and over and over again going back a decade. the dea administrator says that the current rules will not allow her to fire any of these agents. something lawmakers say they don t buy. you can sit here and cry a pretty picture about how deplorable it is but your actions suggest otherwise because there was not the consequence that should have happened. this person is imposing a national security risk, engages ....