The Nation : Drug Efforts Minimized

Vice President George Bush’s task force to combat drug smugglers has done little to slow the flow of illegal narcotics across U.S. borders, General Accounting Office auditors told a House panel. While the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, or NNBIS, claimed to be involved in 136 of 2,289 drug seizures along the Southern border in the first year of operation, the task force contributed to only 39 interdictions, said William J. Anderson of the GAO, an investigative arm of Congress. “At least for that period of time, it appears as though NNBIS did not make much difference” in the effort to stem drug smuggling, he said.