The Armed Forces of the United States are in a unique position to assist America's counternarcotics efforts in both drug interdiction and source zone eradication. For interdiction activities, the military services have the necessary assets to provide for the detection and monitoring of suspected narcotraffickers in the source and transit zone. The military also has the assets to assist the Coast Guard, where necessary, in the interdiction of these suspected traffickers. In order to facilitate source zone eradication, the military services have the skills necessary to help train appropriate foreign security forces so that they are able to defeat the narcotraffickers and their allies, and thus regain and retain control of their territory. On our first panel we are pleased to have General Barry McCaffrey, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. General McCaffrey is in a unique position to outline the threat of drug trafficking in general, and the appropriate role that he, as the individual responsible for coordinating America's counternarcotics efforts, envisions for the U.S. military. We will then hear from General Charles Wilhelm, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Southern Command, and Brian Sheridan Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, to outline the specific counternarcotics operations of the Department of Defense. STATEMENT OF GEN. BARRY R. MCCAFFREY, USA (RETIRED), DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY General MCCAFFREY. Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to come down and not only lay out an opening viewpoint, but, perhaps more importantly, to respond to your own questions and listen to your own comments. We have done a considerable amount of work on our written statement and the associated charts. I welcome the chance to put those in the official record. We have literally put hundreds of hours into trying to re-level the bubble and understand entirely where the National security apparatus is fitting into our drug strategy. I thank you for that chance to put those documents into the public record. Let me, if I may, note that we have got some important people in the room with me. You have already mentioned Brian Sheridan, and also Anna Maria Salazar, who are probably the key figures that I deal with on a day-to-day basis in the Department of Defense. I have also asked to come here, and I have spent several hours with, Mr. Joe Maxwell, the Director of the DAICC. This is a Customs operation that brings together, for the entire hemisphere really, our own ELINT data. So the JIATF East and West and commercial radar nets all downlink to Riverside, California. We are very grateful for Mr. Maxwell and his leadership and commitment. Captain Ralph Utley is here from the USIC, United States Interdiction Coordinator. That is Admiral Loy's principal tool, where he, as Commandant of the Coast Guard, acting in his dual capacity, organizes our interagency interdiction process. I would tell you unequivocally, he has done a brilliant piece of work, and we are grateful for that. Colonel Joe Gorman is here, representing what is entitled JIATF East. I know you are aware of it, but these Joint Interagency Task Forces that are really put together by direction of ONDCP over the last 10 years play a very important role in coordinating-now, in JIATF East's case-all interdiction assets on the north-south axis. Rear Admiral Dave Beltz is here from Joint Interagency Task Force West. He, of course, looks out toward the Pacific, and does an enormous amount of work in concert with U.S. Southern Command in coordinating operations in the Eastern Pacific. Finally, Brigadier General Dorian Anderson, who is the Commanding General Joint Task Force Six, in El Paso, Texas, is here today. His duties involve pulling together U.S. Department of Defense support for U.S. law enforcement. Let me also just take formally note of people that are not in the room but who are part of my interagency leadership process. Not only Bill Cohen, but on a fundamental level, John Hamre, our Deputy Secretary of Defense, has been the driving force behind DOD support of CD operations. He has been the person that pulled together what in fact is a $954 million a year operation, which is some 5 percent of the total Federal counterdrug effort. I might also underscore that that is .4 percent of DOD's budget. So although it is a modest percentage, it is an enormously important aspect of what we are doing. Many of the CINC's play key roles in working the counterdrug issue: ACOM, PACCOM, CENTCOM-Wes Clark, in Europe. I should also underscore, however, that Rodney Slater, at the Department of Transportation, and the Coast Guard itself is a major element in this international arena, along with Bob Rubin, whose Customs Department plays a role not only in the obvious law enforcement issues, but air and sea interdiction. Finally, Attorney General Janet Reno, with the DEA, FBI, ATF, and Border Patrol, work in very close coordination with DOD assets. If I may, though, underscore, at the end of the day, the key figure in my world has been on this north-south axis, the 800 million of us that live in the hemisphere who face this common drug threat, has been General Charlie Wilhelm. His leadership over the past couple of years has been instrumental in resetting the battlefield. He, of course, has had to withdraw his forces from Panama. Senator, with your permission, I am going to run through a few graphs, and I will not talk to them in detail, but I will underscore their nature. Senator ROBERTS. We always welcome charts. General MCCAFFREY. Yes, I feel right back in my common experi ence. Senator ROBERTS. Thanks for presenting a chart and not a slide, because if we were to dim the lights, we would lose everybody. So, please, proceed. General MCCAFFREY. Mr. Chairman, this chart says that there is a conceptual organization to the $17.8 billion effort that we make in fiscal year 1999 on the counterdrug effort. The amount of resources we have expended on this process in the 4 budget years that I have been privileged to take part in this effort have gone up by some one-third. Specifically, when you look at these various activities, I would also underscore to you that this enormous increase in funding, from $13.5 billion to $17.8 billion, includes a 55-percent increase in prevention activities, and a 26-percent increase in federally funded drug treatment programs. I underscore that not to diminish the importance of the nearly billion-dollar effort by the Department of Defense, but to put in context that our drug strategy is essentially a prevention, education, domestic law enforcement program. I would also point out, Mr. Chairman, if I may, that the strategy then has driven three other very crucial documents that your committee members should be aware of. The second document is the budget summary. You will be familiar with the notion of 5-year budget forecasts. This now, by law, from last summer, when you changed my authorization, you have instructed me to submit each year to the Congress 5-year budget estimates. We have tied these budget estimates to the strategy. The 50-some-odd Federal agencies, the nine appropriation bills, the 5-year estimates are conceptually organized to support that strategy. The next document that you should be aware of, because it will affect how we spent this billion dollars in DOD money, is called the performance measures of effectiveness. Essentially, what we have done in 2 years of hard work is to try and design output measures that talk about, on an annual basis, what we are achieving with the dollars you give us. There are 12 outcome targets, and they are supported by 85 subordinate variables, all defined in some way so they lend themselves to database measurement. |