Sec. 4. Establishment of Interagency Task Force to Combat Mexican Cartels and Other Transnational Criminal Organizations
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In this section: The term agencies has the meaning given the term Executive agencies in section 105 of title 5, United States Code. The term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Finance, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Financial Services, and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.
The term transnational criminal organization means a group of persons, such as those set forth under section 3(a), that includes— one or more foreign persons; that engages in an ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity involving the jurisdictions of at least 2 foreign countries; and that threatens the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States. The Director of National Intelligence shall establish an interagency task force on combating Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations.
The task force established under paragraph
(1)shall be known as the Interagency Task Force to Combat Mexican Cartels and Other Transnational Criminal Organizations (in this section referred to as the Task Force ). The Task Force shall be composed of the following, or their designees: The Director of National Intelligence. The Secretary of State. The Secretary of Defense. The Attorney General. The Secretary of Homeland Security. The Secretary of the Treasury. The Director of National Intelligence shall be the head of the Task Force. The primary missions of the Task Force are as follows: To eliminate the threat posed to the United States by Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations, including any and all violence perpetrated by such groups against the United States or the citizens of the United States including the threat posed by the distribution of controlled substances into the United States. To serve as the primary organization in the United States Government for analyzing and integrating all intelligence possessed or acquired by the United States Government pertaining to Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations. To conduct strategic international operational planning for activities to counter the Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations, integrating all instruments of national power, including diplomatic, financial, military, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement activities within and among agencies. To assign roles and responsibilities as part of its strategic operational planning duties to lead agencies, as appropriate, for activities to counter the Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations that are consistent with applicable provisions of law and that support strategic operational plans, but shall not direct the execution of any resulting operations. To ensure that agencies, as appropriate, have access to and receive all-source intelligence support needed to execute their plans or perform independent, alternative analysis. To ensure that such agencies have access to and receive intelligence needed to accomplish their assigned activities. To serve as the central and shared knowledge repository on known and suspected cartel or transnational criminal organization members, as well as their goals, strategies, capabilities, and networks of contacts and support. Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Task Force shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a detailed report regarding— any other Mexican cartels, or factions of cartels, and transnational criminal organizations that should be designated as foreign terrorist organizations under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1189 ), including the criteria justifying each such designation; any foreign organization which provides illicit services to Mexican cartels and transnational criminal organizations, including controlled substance precursor chemicals and money laundering services, and whether they qualify as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of such Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1189 ); any current Government policy, law, or position that prevents the United States Government from accomplishing the goal of eradicating the Mexican cartels and transnational criminal organizations, or stopping the flow of controlled substances into the United States; and a detailed plan to expand the intelligence gathering and sharing capability of the United States Government to eradicate the Mexican cartels and transnational criminal organizations, including any steps that Congress must take to streamline this intelligence process. The report submitted under paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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Establishment of Interagency Task Force to Combat Mexican Cartels and Other Transnational Criminal Organizations
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