U.S. intel chief: Mexico drug violence poses security threat

Fox News
March 11, 2011

U.S. National Intelligence Director James Clapper told lawmakers here that drug-related violence in Mexico poses a security threat to the United States and acknowledged that the system in place to prevent a potential terrorist from penetrating the U.S. southwestern border is not “iron-clad.”

During an appearance Thursday before the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Clapper reiterated the U.S. government’s position that drug trafficking and the prevalence of drug cartels in Mexico is a “matter of national security interest in both countries.”

“The whole business of, however you want to label it, of drug trafficking is just a very serious national security problem. It’s one that we, both countries, share in,” Clapper said.

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This article was posted: Friday, March 11, 2011 at 1:51 pm

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