A decade before President Donald Trump boasted of “hunting” alleged “narcoterrorists” on boats off the coast of Venezuela, the Defense Department was looking for new ways to get involved in the war on drugs.
In a major report quietly issued by the federally funded Institute for Defense Analyses, researchers working for the Pentagon presented their findings, based on interviews with dozens of top drug traffickers incarcerated in the United States, on how to better disrupt transnational organized crime.
One top-line prescription: More “direct military action.”
The report, which was obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request and has never previously been made public, provides a window into the inner workings of major drug-trafficking networks.
An attorney whose client was interviewed by researchers working for the Pentagon told The Intercept that the report proves that the recent sidelining of counternarcotics police in favor of bloodshed at sea is what military insiders have wanted for years.
“I’m sure the terrorists will get the message soon and we will see a huge decrease in poison in our communities,” he wrote on X.
Oh yes, of course. It’s all about the “poison in our communities”. If that’s gone, drug fiends will no longer emerge, the problem is finally solved at the basis. Drug-free USA! How about trying to change people’s life so they don’t even get kicked into the downwards-spiral that ends in drugabuse?
Weird, the same argument they won’t accept for guns seems to be valid for drugs 😁
DancingBear@midwest.social 1 hour ago
Worlds biggest drug trafficker cracking down on the competition?