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Federal
Agency
Finds
International
Drug
War
a
Total
Failure
3/20/98
Yet another General Accounting Office report has found a stunning lack
of results -- on the streets, where it counts -- from U.S.-led international
drug eradication and interdiction efforts. The GAO testimony, given before
the U.S. House of Representatives' Subcommittee on National Security, International
Affairs and Criminal Justice, released on March 12, sums up the record:
"Despite long-standing efforts and expenditures of billions of
dollars, illegal drugs still flood the United States. Although U.S. counternarcotics
efforts have resulted in the arrest of major drug traffickers, the seizure
of large amounts of drugs, and the eradication of illicit drug crops, they
have not materially reduced the availability of drugs in the United States."
The full document is available in Acrobat format at <http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ns98116t.pdf>,
or can be ordered through the GAO's web site at <http://www.gao.gov>.
The report is titled "Drug Control: Status of U.S. International Counternarcotics
Activities" and has identifying number T-NSIAD-98-116.
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Issue #34, 3/20/98
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