§2331 Director of National Intelligence Program on Use of Intelligence Resources in Efforts to Sanction Foreign Opioid Traffickers

Summary

The Director of National Intelligence must run a program with the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to use intelligence—like collection and analysis—to help the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, and the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration find and impose sanctions on foreign opioid traffickers under subchapter I. Where possible, the work must focus on illegal money flows linked to drug trafficking and be developed in consultation with Treasury officials (including the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, the Treasury intelligence office, and FinCEN) and other federal law enforcement agencies. The DNI must also do a full review of the intelligence community’s counternarcotics collection priorities to see if they match the scale of lives lost in the United States from illegal drugs. Not later than 90 days after December 20, 2019, and every year after, the DNI and the ONDCP must send a joint report to the appropriate congressional committees and leaders about the program’s progress; the first report must include how much the intelligence community spent on these efforts in fiscal years 2017 and 2018. They must also give briefings every six months. Not later than 120 days after December 20, 2019, the DNI must send a report on the review results and say whether the priorities are enough or need changes. Intelligence community: the U.S. intelligence agencies defined in law.