convergence

Wechsler and Barnabo
Notes
1 Statement of Derek S. Maltz, Special Agent in Charge of the Special Operations Division, Drug Enforcement
Administration, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Terrorism, Non-Proliferation, and Crime,
November 17, 2011.
2 Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime: Addressing Converging Threats to National Security (Washington,
DC: The White House, July 2011), 6.
3 James Clapper, Unclassified Statement for the Record on the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S.
Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, January 31, 2012.
4 Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime, cover letter by President Barack Obama.
5 Ibid., 1.
6 Ibid.
7 Evan Munsing and Christopher J. Lamb, Joint Interagency Task Force–South: The Best Known, Least Understood
Interagency Success, Strategic Perspectives No. 5, Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic
Studies (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, June 2011), 3.
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