I sincerely believe that if recent technological advancements had not occurred, the upper echelon threat of national security breaches caused by organized crime groups would not be as high as it is. Although it seems obvious that the government is not doing its best to manage threats from organized crime, one would think that with all the precautionary measures taken by the United States government, the threats would be eliminated. It seems that one of the most important measures carried out by the United States government is the war on drugs. Even with this system in place, statistics have shown that the FBI and the United States government in general have failed to achieve any of their originally intended drug war goals. For example, a news channel reported that after 40 years of war on drugs, more than 1 trillion US dollars have been spent and hundreds of thousands of lives have been spared, but drugs move in and out of United States at will due to organized crime groups (Mendoza,