Word: mccaffrey
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...BARRY MCCAFFREY Clinton's top narc reports teen drug use down 21% in past two years. Let's all drink to that...
Besides Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Attorney General Janet Reno, and anti-drug czar Barry McCaffrey, Clinton brought along a gaggle of Congressmen, both Republicans and Democrats, to help bolster support for the program. The most notable is one of the president's chief antagonists on Capitol Hill - Dennis Hastert, the Republican House Speaker. Head of a drug sub-committee, Hastert has been to Colombia half a dozen times and was instrumental in passing the aid package. Clinton probably used the time to do some bonding in advance of doing his bit for Al Gore's campaign by vetoing Republican...
...ever imagined. After reviewing a fresh batch of spy-satellite photos and intelligence reports from the ground, agency analysts this month concluded that Colombia produced 520 metric tons of cocaine last year, three times what the agency had previously calculated. Then last week, Administration drug czar Barry McCaffrey made public the other CIA bombshell: Colombia's opium-poppy cultivation also jumped 23% in 1999. All told, says McCaffrey, 80% of the cocaine and heroin entering the U.S. comes from or through Colombia, causing 52,000 deaths here each year, along with $110 billion in health-care, crime and lost-productivity...
...radar screen. From February to June of last year, a period during which the Colombian crisis worsened, the top aide for Latin America on the National Security Council was detached to deal with Kosovo. With Republicans threatening last summer to ram through their own billion-dollar aid package, McCaffrey began lobbying the White House for a plan...
...politics - and that could put Washington right back in the thick of the Reagan-era counterinsurgency from which President Clinton has tried so hard to distance himself. With a $1.6 billion U.S. aid package to the Colombian military at stake, President Andres Pastrana and U.S. drug czar General Barry McCaffrey found themselves forced Thursday to defend the Colombian army from allegations that it remains intimately connected with right-wing paramilitary groups notorious for human rights abuses. But despite Pastrana and McCaffrey's insistence that the military remains clean, Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday that there are documented ties between...