NTD News: Examining U.S. Terrorist Designations 2025Feb21

Feb 21, 2025

This video and article first appeared on NTD.com.

The U.S. is labeling eight cartels as terrorist organizations, granting the federal government expanded powers to combat their activities. These groups are accused of trafficking guns, drugs, and human beings into the U.S. and globally. To analyze the significance of this decision, NTD Television Network spoke with Michael Brown, a former DEA senior special agent and current global director of counter-narcotics technology at Rigaku Analytical Devices.

View the interview here.
 

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the correspondent and guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Rigaku Analytical Devices.

 

 

Michael W. Brown is the global director of counter-narcotics technology at Rigaku Analytical Devices. He has a distinguished career spanning more than 32 years as a Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He served as the country attaché in India and Myanmar; During his tour in Myanmar, he provided foreign advisory support for counter narcotic enforcement that, to date, has resulted in the interdiction of over US$250 million in precursor chemicals and implementing the regions first use of Raman spectroscopy to degrade the supply chain for narcotics production. He was also part of a special specialized counter narcotics unit operating in the jungles of South America tasked with locating and destroying drug labs and narcotic supply chains. Most recently he was the DEA Headquarters staff coordinator for the Office of Foreign Operations for the Middle East-Europe-Afghanistan-India. Michael is a graduate of the United States Ranger Training Battalion and has a master’s degree in interdisciplinary technology and management from the University of Eastern Michigan.

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