Former DEA Special Agent Derek Maltz on Opioids and Transnational Crime

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of Intelligence Matters, guest host Ret. Navy Admiral Sandy Winnefeld speaks with Derek Maltz, former Agent in Charge of the Special Operations Division at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration for an important conversation about the national security implications of the opioid crisis gripping communities across the United States. Maltz explains the connectivity between drug traffickers and terrorist networks, China’s growing export of fentanyl and precursor chemicals, and how the DEA partners with the CIA and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies in international counter-narcotics efforts.

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0:07.4	Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal.
0:11.6	Our newest series looks at the Kids for Cash Scandal, a story about two judges who stood
0:16.5	accused of making millions of dollars in a brazen scheme that shattered the lives of countless
0:21.4	children.
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0:28.4	This is the Intelligence Matters Podcast with former acting director of the CIA, Michael
0:33.4	Morel.
0:34.4	A lot of people don't realize that the DEA has the largest international presence of any
0:42.8	federal law enforcement agency.
0:44.5	The command and control threats to our country for transnational organized crime are foreign.
0:49.2	So you have to have the relationships with the foreign international counterparts if you
0:53.8	want to be effective going after these threats.
0:58.6	The opioid crisis that's enveloping our country.
1:01.0	Do you see this as more of a national security emergency or just a public health emergency?
1:05.6	I see it as obviously a public health emergency.
1:08.6	It's unprecedented.
1:09.6	We've never had this in the history of our country happen, but where it becomes a national security
1:15.0	emergency is the connectivity between the drug traffickers and the terrorists that are
1:19.3	out there trying to destroy our way of life.
1:21.7	Because the cartels are bombing this country every day from the southwest border and they
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