Former Treasury Official: Trump Administration Needs to Target Hezbollah’s Drug Smuggling

In the wake of a report earlier this week that the Obama administration ended an investigation into Hezbollah’s drug-trafficking operations in the Western Hemisphere in order to secure the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, a former United States Treasury Department official outlined steps that the Trump administration could take to effectively combat Hezbollah’s narcotics empire, in an op-ed published Monday in the New York Post.

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Jonathan Schanzer, formerly a terror finance analyst at the Treasure Department and currently senior vice president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote that in order to fight Hezbollah’s narcotics empire in the Western Hemisphere, President Donald Trump first needs to appoint a new chief for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) who understands “the growing convergence between transnational organized crime and terrorist groups like Hezbollah.”

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