(a) Office.--There is established in the Department an
Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement, which shall be headed
by a Director appointed by the President, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate.
(b) Assignment of Personnel.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall assign
permanent staff to the Office, consistent with
effective management of Department resources.
(2) Liaisons.--The Secretary shall designate senior
employees from each appropriate subdivision of the
Department that has significant counternarcotics
responsibilities to act as a liaison between that
subdivision and the Office of Counternarcotics
Enforcement.
(c) Limitation on Concurrent Employment.--The Director of
the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement shall not be
employed by, assigned to, or serve as the head of, any other
branch of the Federal Government, any State or local
government, or any subdivision of the Department other than the
Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement.
(d) Responsibilities.--The Secretary shall direct the
Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement--
(1) to coordinate policy and operations within the
Department, between the Department and other Federal
departments and agencies, and between the Department
and State and local agencies with respect to stopping
the entry of illegal drugs into the United States;
(2) to ensure the adequacy of resources within the
Department for stopping the entry of illegal drugs into
the United States;
(3) to recommend the appropriate financial and
personnel resources necessary to help the Department
better fulfill its responsibility to stop the entry of
illegal drugs into the United States;
(4) within the Joint Terrorism Task Force construct
to track and sever connections between illegal drug
trafficking and terrorism; and
(5) to be a representative of the Department on all
task forces, committees, or other entities whose
purpose is to coordinate the counternarcotics
enforcement activities of the Department and other
Federal, State or local agencies.
(e) Savings Clause.--Nothing in this section shall be
construed to authorize direct control of the operations
conducted by the Directorate of Border and Transportation
Security, the Coast Guard, or joint terrorism task forces.
(f) Reports to Congress.--
(1) Annual budget review.--The Director of the
Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement shall, not later
than 30 days after the submission by the President to
Congress of any request for expenditures for the
Department, submit to the Committees on Appropriations
and the authorizing committees of jurisdiction of the
House of Representatives and the Senate a review and
evaluation of such request. The review and evaluation
shall--
(A) identify any request or subpart of any
request that affects or may affect the
counternarcotics activities of the Department
or any of its subdivisions, or that affects the
ability of the Department or any subdivision of
the Department to meet its responsibility to
stop the entry of illegal drugs into the United
States;
(B) describe with particularity how such
requested funds would be or could be expended
in furtherance of counternarcotics activities;
and
(C) compare such requests with requests for
expenditures and amounts appropriated by
Congress in the previous fiscal year.
(2) Evaluation of counternarcotics activities.--The
Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement
shall, not later than February 1 of each year, submit
to the Committees on Appropriations and the authorizing
committees of jurisdiction of the House of
Representatives and the Senate a review and evaluation
of the counternarcotics activities of the Department
for the previous fiscal year. The review and evaluation
shall--
(A) describe the counternarcotics
activities of the Department and each
subdivision of the Department (whether
individually or in cooperation with other
subdivisions of the Department, or in
cooperation with other branches of the Federal
Government or with State or local agencies),
including the methods, procedures, and systems
(including computer systems) for collecting,
analyzing, sharing, and disseminating
information concerning narcotics activity
within the Department and between the
Department and other Federal, State, and local
agencies;
(B) describe the results of those
activities, using quantifiable data whenever
possible;
(C) state whether those activities were
sufficient to meet the responsibility of the
Department to stop the entry of illegal drugs
into the United States, including a description
of the performance measures of effectiveness
that were used in making that determination;
and
(D) recommend, where appropriate, changes
to those activities to improve the performance
of the Department in meeting its responsibility
to stop the entry of illegal drugs into the
United States.
(3) Classified or law enforcement sensitive
information.--Any content of a review and evaluation
described in the reports required in this subsection
that involves information classified under criteria
established by an Executive order, or whose public
disclosure, as determined by the Secretary, would be
detrimental to the law enforcement or national security
activities of the Department or any other Federal,
State, or local agency, shall be presented to Congress
separately from the rest of the review and evaluation.