US EditionIntel officials testify on threat from drug cartels as Dems press them on leak of attack plans
- On Tuesday, Trump administration intelligence officials, including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee at the annual hearing on worldwide threats, stressing the danger posed by international criminal gangs, drug cartels, and human smuggling.
- The hearing took place against the backdrop of a security breach involving the mistaken leak of attack plans to a journalist, which Democrats criticized as reckless and dangerous.
- While Republican senators focused on China and the fentanyl scourge, Democrats, including Senators Mark Warner, Ron Wyden and Michael Bennet, criticized the security breach, with Bennet demanding answers from CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Warner expressing concern that American lives could have been lost.
- According to official statements and a resolution from Rep. Greg Steube , the Trump administration is prioritizing the need to combat cartels, describing them as engaging in activities such as narcotics and human trafficking, money laundering, and smuggling of illegal immigrants, and presenting a clear danger to Americans by violating the territorial integrity of the United States.
- Following a call between Presidents Trump and Putin last week where Putin agreed to pause strikes against energy infrastructure, the hearing offered a glimpse of the administration's reorienting of priorities, with a focus on violent crime linked to cross-border drug trafficking, while still acknowledging longstanding national security concerns like international terrorism and threats from countries such as Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
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In new assessment, Trump team ranks fentanyl as a top threat to U.S.
Fentanyl and international drug gangs responsible for smuggling the deadly street drug rank among the top threats to U.S. national security. That’s according to an assessment delivered on Tuesday by top Trump administration officials to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.“Cartels were largely responsible for the deaths of more than 54,000 U.S. citizens from synthetic opioids” during the 12-month period that ended in October 2024, Direc…
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