Radley Balko points out that Karen Tandy is leaving the DEA.

Note that I don’t use the word “rapist” lightly. Yet, Tandy’s conviction to ridding the United States of drugs often belies her general lack of depth or understanding. She’s a product of black-and-white/no-inbetween bias. Her actions have left many pain patients in hopeless agony, a badge she wears with pride. So what do we call someone who intentionally pursues policies regardless of the number of cases where the issue is, and can never be, black-and-white?  She’s a do-gooder of the worst kind, completely incapable of recognizing the consequences of her actions – actions that have persecuted and tortured many a soul who would, by any rational argument, have some means finding solutions to treating their own pain in privacy. The woman must have taken some perverse interest in persecuting people, leaving them to suffer, all to her delight. So, if she wishes to use the law to violate the natural rights of a person and the sanctity of the self, I have no qualms calling it rape and Tandy a rapist.