Editing Drug Enforcement Administration (section)

===Insufficient monitoring of David Headley===
The DEA faced a major setback for not keeping stringent observation on Pakistani-American informant [[David Headley]], for involvement in the [[2008 Mumbai attacks|November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai]], as well as conspiring a terror attack on the Danish newspaper [[Jyllands-Posten]] for the [[Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy|cartoons of Muhammad]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Slideshow: An American's Path to the Mumbai Attacks |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/slideshow-an-americans-path-to-the-mumbai-attacks/ |access-date=August 4, 2024 |website=FRONTLINE}}</ref> Headley, while working with the DEA, took part in the plot by providing reconnaissance to the Pakistan based terror outfit [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]], which he was introduced to while visiting Pakistan. <ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/labs/i/perfect-terrorist/# Interactive: David Coleman Headley's Web of Betrayal], PBS. Retrieved July 26, 2013</ref> On January 24, 2013, a [[United States federal courts|U.S. federal court]] eventually sentenced Headley to 35 years in prison for his role in Mumbai and Copenhagen.<ref name="SweeneySentence">{{cite news |last=Sweeney |first=Annie |date=January 24, 2013 |title=Chicago man gets 35 years in Mumbai terror attack |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-sentencing-today-for-chicago-man-in-mumbai-terror-attack-20130124,0,3301876.story |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124183315/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-sentencing-today-for-chicago-man-in-mumbai-terror-attack-20130124,0,3301876.story |archive-date=January 24, 2013 |access-date=January 24, 2013 |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref>