White House opposes designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations

Just the News ^ | Updated: March 8, 2023 - 5:08pm | Ben Whedon

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it would not support efforts to brand Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, indicating such a move would provide little value in combatting their operations.

"Designating these cartels as FTOs (foreign terrorist organizations) would not grant us any additional authorities that we don't really have at this time. The United States has powerful sanctions authorities specifically designated to combat narcotics trafficking organizations and the individuals and entities that enable them," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday.

"In the last few months alone Treasury has announced a series of actions against cartels that are dangerous to the public safety and we have also taken action that further enables Treasury to sanction foreign persons," she continued, adding that such efforts had hindered the ability of drug traffickers to hide their assets from the U.S. government.

Many Republicans have called on the Biden administration to label the cartels as FTOs, including Sens. Lindsey Graham, S.C., and John Kennedy, La., who have introduced legislation to designate nine Mexican gangs as FTOs and authorize the use of military force against them.

"It's time now to get serious and use all of the tools in the toolbox. Not just in the prosecution lane, not just in the law enforcement lane, but in the military lane as well," Graham said of the proposal.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Okay. Let’s declare the Democrat Party and the Obama/Biden administrations “Domestic Terrorists”, aka “traitors”.

[cuz1961]

Is it any different now than when 0bama was running things?

/\

Then he probably still is.

Face it, washington IS a

District of Cartels.

The dem cartel
The RINO cartel
The inteligenc cartel
The lobbies cartel
The federal employee cartel
The defense cartel
The secretary of state cartel
The federal reserve cartel
The arms manufactor cartel
( and by appearance Mexican and other foreign drug and slavery cartels )

All grifting
All rogue
All unaccountable
All frenemies in the big con.
All battling each other for top dog

They all defacto operate outside and in defiance of the constitution while play acting the part with lip service.

Our only hope is to return to the constitution , limited representative government

and ditch the agencies, departments, regulations, rules, and unconstitutional laws

and the paper pushing busy work drones that produce nothing of value while drawing checks on the taxpayers back.

Jmho

[TigersEye]

Add it all up and it spells Deep State.

I’d like to see it all come to an end too but it’s a big challenge.

The “Deep State” is not just corruption in our government it is a worldwide corruption of a lot of governments orchestrated by numerous powerful entities and individuals IMO.

I see no choice but to expose it and fight it though.

[ApplegateRanch]

10% for The Big Guy? LGB/FJB

[ApplegateRanch]

>>Is it any different now than when 0bama was running things?<<

What do you mean, “was”?

[TigersEye]

I meant “was officially.”

[euram]

Of course Biden doesn’t want them designated as terrorists, he’s undoubtedly raking in millions from them.

[Machavelli]

With Biden’s record of taking foreign money, you have to wonder if he is on the payroll of the drug cartels. These politicians are treasonous bastards.