Intel Report Drops Climate Change, Names Cartels As Top U.S. Threat
by Stephen Dinan Mar 25, 2025
Cartels and gangs pose the most direct danger to the U.S., intelligence officials said Tuesday as they delivered their annual global threat assessment to Congress. [emphasis, links added]
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said they have flooded America with drugs, helped illegal immigrants swamp the border, and are growing increasingly violent in the areas south of the border where they operate.
She said the cartels and gangs are what “most immediately and directly threaten the United States.”
She pointed to more than 50,000 synthetic opioid deaths she attributed to the cartels and to the largely Chinese firms that supply the precursor drugs as the largest manifestation of the threat.
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