It's sort of like its own separate dark economy. And it serves all of these various illicit enterprises. And it seems to me that We were paying too little attention to the money side back when the money side was just the drawback of cash from the sales. And it was nothing more than that. Now that it's metastasized into being this sort of financial creature that supports so many illicit, unlawful, dangerous activities, things that are really anathematic to American success, the scale of our effort in defeating it has not gotten. (1:02:38–1:02:49)
CLAIM
Asserts that insufficient attention was given to the financial aspects of drug sales when it was primarily about cash retrieval.
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