DEA ADMINISTRATOR RESIGNS

Post's First Woman, Tandy, Will Take Job With Motorola

Drug Enforcement Administration chief Karen Tandy is resigning,
ending her four-year tenure as the first woman to hold the post, and
she will take a job at Motorola Inc.

Ms. Tandy told employees that she was leaving to take a job as a
senior vice president of the Schaumburg, Ill.,
telecommunications-equipment company, said DEA spokesman Garrison Courtney.

Motorola is the chief sponsor of a DEA traveling museum exhibit about
global drug trafficking and terrorism that Mr. Courtney said is
funded solely by private donors and corporations, not taxpayers.

Ms. Tandy, a former associate deputy attorney general at the Justice
Department, will be Motorola's top spokesperson for public policy,
focusing mostly on global telecom policy, trade and regulation. She
is "an ideal and logical fit to lead our government and policy team,"
said Motorola spokesman Gene Delaney.

Ms. Tandy will succeed Michael Kennedy, who plans to retire at the
end of the year, the company said. She was confirmed to head the DEA
in July 2003. Ms. Tandy could be succeeded by another woman, Michele
Leonhart, her second-in-command, who is a possible candidate for the
top job. The DEA employs about 4,600 agents in the U.S. and in 85
countries. During her years at DEA, Ms. Tandy began its program to
curb opium and heroin traffic by deploying agents to Afghanistan to
track down local drug barons accused of financing the Taliban
insurgency. The DEA has said its annual program has helped bring a
more-than-700% increase in the seizure of opium, heroin and clandestine labs.

But a recent United Nations report forecast that Afghanistan would
produce 9,000 tons of opium this year, up 34% from 2006 and enough to
make more than 880 tons of heroin.

Under Ms. Tandy, the DEA said it eliminated more than 65% of the
nation's illicit methamphetamine labs. The DEA said it has stripped
drug lords of more than $3 billion of assets this year.