Former CIA officer and U.S. Treasury special agent John Cassara spent much of his 26-year career investigating transnational money laundering. He said there is a self-defeating logic to the DEA targeting the drugs and the people that supply them rather than the financial networks.
”It’s easier to go after the product and it’s easier to go after the people than to go after the money,” said Cassara, who retired in 2006. “But that’s a huge mistake.”
Forget the money that fuels the drug trade and funds Chinese espionage. We have street-level dealers to put in jail for decades.