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El Paso Intelligence Center EL PASO, TEXAS
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John, how are you?
-Judge, welcome.
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Bob Wakefield. Pleasure.
-Good to see you.
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EPIC is very unique.
It's a facility
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that has over fifteen different agencies,
state and local, that participate
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in gathering intelligence and making sure
that information gets out to people in the
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field that need it to stop drug traffic.
From here, we have the ability to track
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vessels, airplanes any drug carrier.
When the information comes in, we're able
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to check wth different databases to see
if it's in the system or not.
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Would most of that energy be focused on the
2 cartels? The Juárez and Obreg-n brothers?
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Are these two the most important ones?
-They are the 2 clearest threats right now.
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They are the dominant force in trafficking,
both on the Mexican side and in the U.S.
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How are they're achieving the level
of intelligence that they're showng?
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Craig, why don't you answer that?
-Unlimited budget.
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So, you're saying, actually, that even
a country of our size and the budget
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that we throwtowards this issue,
they can compete at the same level?
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No. They're way beyond us. Our budgetary
process, it makes us pale in comparison.
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That house you're looking at over there
used to belong to Porfirio Madrigal.
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His nickname was Scorpion.
I'll let you figure out what that means.
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Didn't he die during plastic surgery?.
-Best of our information, yes.
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Who do you interact wth on that side?
-Nobody.
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Well, who has my job in Mexico?
-Your job doesn't exist over there yet.
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I want everyone thinking out of the box
the next few minutes.
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What are we doing about Mexico?
Come on, guys. Out of the box.
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Unlimited funds?
-Unlimited.
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From a D.E.A. standpoint, we need a
vetted task force and matching funds.