PRISM: Col. Bob Killebrew on Criminal Insurgency

June 14th, 2011 by zen

Third, help our neighbors build more functional state institutions, particularly courts, and stimulate economic growth. In terms of the U.S. role and our assistance to allies, our understanding of security assistance must be broadened to include effective assistance to police and courts. For example, as part of Plan Colombia-a Colombian-developed counter-cartel strategy-the United States provided the Colombian National Police (CNP) with telecommunications-intercept equipment and, working through the Department of Justice, helped the CNP build a judicial process to support wiretap investigations. The result was a powerful tool that assisted indictments against cartel leadership and extraditions to the United States for prosecution. Likewise, assisting host nations to build strong, noncorrupt judicial systems is critical to assisting or restoring stable governments in areas threatened by cartel or other insurgent violence; courts, appellate courts, and efficient prisons are key pieces. Other U.S. agencies and contractors can provide other materiel assistance, training, partnership, and, when authorized, direct help in specified areas such as the collection of certain kinds of strategic intelligence. The U.S. Department of Defense can provide advisors and trainers on the Colombia model to supplement local military and law enforcement efforts, and occasionally direct aid in the form of helicopter transportation and naval support.61

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  1. Mercutio:

    June 14th, 2011 at 7:02 am

    It is too much to ask to consider legalizing drugs. Anything but that!
    This article nowhere considers where the money will come to effect these wars. I can only presume that they will parallel ongoing operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, and who knows where else.
    Latin Americans will of course welcome assistance from their "Gringo" neighbors. And Latinos within the United States will warmly embrace the use of drones, etc. against their folks back home.
    Beyond that, this should be as clean and easy as the numerous military adventures the United States has experienced in the recent past.
    Thank goodness we are led by stalwart men who would never, never, never legalize drugs.

  2. Mercutio:

    June 14th, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    Re: "helping our neighbors build more functional state institutions."

    Before we so help them, it would behoove us first to help ourselves.   According to today’s LAT, Cartel corruption reaches into the ranks of U.S. border agents, officials say..

  3. zen:

    June 14th, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    "It is too much to ask to consider legalizing drugs. Anything but that!"
    .
    I’m in favor of that, with appropriate taxation. At present, I think it is an insurmountable policy sell at the Federal level, something I am sure Bob is well aware of. Not so much because the bureaucrats would lose their jobs – we have plenty of CI, CT, border control, cybercrime, white collar and organized crime problems to reassign these ppl to which their time would be much better spent- but the puritannical, emotional, nanny-state reflex that runs across both parties in Congress. The idea that some socially marginal hipster is lighting up a joint somewhere is unbearable to some ppl who indulge regularly in tobacco, alcohol and xanax. It’s stupid