Robert C. Bonner (born in Wichita, Kansas on January 29, 1942) has been a prosecutor, federal judge, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Bonner graduated from Georgetown Law School in 1966. From 1984 to 1989, Bonner was the United States Attorney for the Central District of California and a judge of the United States District Court for that same district, 1989-1990. As a U.S. Attorney, he worked closely with the Drug Enforcement Administration on two record-breaking money laundering cases, Operations Pisces and Polar Cap, and had led the prosecution team against the killers of a DEA special agent. Bonner also served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1967 to 1971. On May 11, 1990, President George H.W. Bush nominated Robert C. Bonner to be Administrator of the DEA. He was confirmed by the Senate on July 27, 1990 and sworn in as the DEA's fifth Administrator on August 13, 1990. Bonner served as Administrator from August 16, 1990 to October 31, 1993. In November 1993, Judge Bonner appeared on 60 Minutes and alleged that the CIA was involved in drug trafficking.[1]
