Assessment of activities by drug trafficking organizations in covered foreign countries
Title I — Prioritizing Intelligence Gathering on Drug Trafficking Organizations
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(a) Report Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Chief of Intelligence of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report containing an analytical assessment of the activities of drug trafficking organizations in covered foreign countries. Such assessment shall include, at a minimum— (1) an assessment of the effect of drug trafficking organizations on the security and economic situation in covered foreign countries; (2) an assessment of the effect of the activities of drug trafficking organizations on the migration of persons from covered foreign countries to the United States-Mexico border; (3) a summary of any relevant activities by elements of the intelligence community in relation to drug trafficking organizations in covered foreign countries and Mexico; (4) a summary of key methods and routes used by drug trafficking organizations in covered foreign countries and Mexico to the United States; (5) an assessment of the intersection between the activities of drug trafficking organizations, human traffickers and human smugglers, and other organized criminal groups in covered foreign countries; and (6) an assessment of the illicit funds and financial transactions that support the activities of drug trafficking organizations and connected criminal enterprises in covered foreign countries. (b) Form The report required by subsection (a) may be submitted in classified form, but if so submitted, shall contain an unclassified summary. (c) Availability The report under subsection (a), or the unclassified summary of the report described in subsection (b), shall be made publicly available.