Michael Braun to Testify Again on Mexican Narco-Terrorism
By Andrew Cochran
Michael Braun, our newest Contributing Expert and former Chief of Operations at the DEA, will testify tomorrow before the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere during a hearing titled, "Guns, Drugs and Violence: The Merida Initiative and the Challenge in Mexico." Michael testified last week on this subject before another Congressional committee and posted his testimony here. Michael is now one of three principals at Spectre Group International, LLC, which provides specialized consulting services to governments and private sector clients worldwide. EDIT: Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld writes that a federal law enacted in 2006 calls for a study of the potential application of mycoherbicides, fungi which occur naturally, to eliminate drug crops, but no such study has been undertaken. Defoliation exercises weren't successful in Colombia, but to my knowledge didn't include this technology, so perhaps a study would be useful.
