A 15-month-old baby in Española, New Mexico died after ingesting burned fentanyl residue – the kind of pills Biden's DEA let walk.
That toddler's death may have been prevented.
A decorated DEA agent tried to stop it – and Biden's Justice Department chained him to a desk.
The Agent Who Wouldn't Stay Quiet
David Howell is a 19-year DEA veteran who spent a decade in the Navy before joining the agency.
Between 2023 and 2025, Howell watched his colleagues do the unthinkable.
They sat on intelligence showing exactly where fentanyl shipments were going – pill counts, locations, delivery times – and did nothing.
In June 2023, DEA agents decoded cartel cellphone chatter and surveilled a transaction at an Albuquerque mobile home park.
They documented 74,000 pills being delivered and walked away.
Days later, the same trafficking ring dropped another shipment hidden inside a spare tire.
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The agents watched that one too.
Howell's verdict on what his agency was doing: "We poisoned our community to make cases."
He added the words that should define the Biden legacy on fentanyl: "We 100% got people killed."
Howell filed a formal whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in late 2023.
The OSC found a "substantial likelihood of wrongdoing" and asked the Merrick Garland-run Justice Department to investigate.
Garland's DOJ investigated itself – and cleared itself.
They concluded the DEA and U.S. Attorney's Office had made "reasonable decisions" and that allowing 1.8 million fentanyl pills to flood New Mexico posed "no specific danger to public health."
The Biden administration's reward for Howell's courage: desk duty for over a year, downgraded performance reviews, and a ban on testifying in federal court.
Internal records show prosecutors barred Howell from court because of his "pattern of refusing to heed" instructions to let drugs go unseized.
In Biden's America, trying to get fentanyl off the streets was a punishable offense.
Fast and Furious 2.0 – Except Deadlier
America has seen this before.
Under Barack Obama, the ATF ran a scheme in which it let nearly 2,000 weapons cross into Mexico and land in cartel hands – a scandal that became known as Operation Fast and Furious.
Two of those guns turned up at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for covering it up.
After that catastrophe, the Justice Department adopted strict protocols: if you know guns are going to be trafficked, you stop them.
In 2019, the DOJ adopted a similar rule for fentanyl – seize it whenever "practicable."
Biden's U.S. Attorney in Albuquerque, Alex Uballez, ignored that guidance entirely.
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Uballez told reporters "the bigger fish are worth catching" – justifying his office's decision to let millions of pills flow to American neighborhoods.
Howell's attorney, Tristan Leavitt of Empower Oversight, drew the comparison directly: this is Fast and Furious with a body count that dwarfs the original.
At least with the guns, investigators had serial numbers to track.
With fentanyl – where two milligrams kills the average adult – there is no way to ever know how many people died from the pills Howell's colleagues watched roll into Albuquerque's streets.
A former DEA supervisor who worked alongside Howell put the total even higher than the whistleblower's estimate.
He said they allowed "millions" of pills to go unseized – and he wouldn't attach his name to that statement because he's still terrified of retaliation.
Trump Cleaned It Up – Biden Left the Bodies
In May 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the largest fentanyl bust in DEA history – more than 3 million pills seized in Albuquerque.
The same operation Howell had been screaming about for two years was dismantled within months of Trump taking power.
But the damage was done.
Even after that record bust, New Mexico's overdose deaths rose 21 percent last year – while the national rate fell 14 percent.
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The fentanyl that Biden's DOJ let walk was already in people's veins.
Leavitt and Empower Oversight have formally asked the Senate Judiciary Committee and DOJ Inspector General to investigate how many people died and who is responsible.
Garland should answer for this under oath.
Uballez should answer for this under oath.
And every Democrat who spent four years telling you Biden was tough on fentanyl owes you an explanation.
The Biden administration buried a good agent in a desk chair for refusing to let poison flow into his community.
That's the story they don't want investigated.
That's exactly why it needs to be.
Sources:
- Jim Mustian, "Staggering Amounts of Fentanyl Hit Streets as the DEA Watched and Took No Action," The Washington Times, June 22, 2026.
- Katherine Pugh, "Fast and Furious 2.0? Biden DEA Let 1M Fentanyl Pills Flow to Streets, Whistleblower Lawyer Says," Just the News, June 22, 2026.
- "Biden DEA Let Fentanyl Flow Freely into New Mexico," Headline USA, June 22, 2026.
- Douglas Andrews, "Fast and Furious for Fentanyl?" The Patriot Post, June 23, 2026.