As we did with traditional organized crime more than 40 years ago and with the war on drugs in the 1980s, America’s law enforcement apparatus must develop an entirely new network of criminal intelligence and design a strategy to deal with the unique threat posed by domestic terrorism.
We should harbor no illusions about the magnitude of this threat: It is the most daunting task ever faced by law enforcement in this country. The last such massive offensive ever attempted by the government was the war on organized crime launched by then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960s. The passage of new federal laws giving prosecutors more tools, years of intensive efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the defection of a series of high-ranking mobsters led to a string of major prosecutions that have severely crippled the impact of organized crime. Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller III can build on these successes.
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