Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Must Watch update on this weeks events.
Greta Van Susteren: Why do you want to name the Mexican Cartels as terrorists?
Cong. McCaul: Well ... because they are. You look at their most recent tactics in Mexico ... beheadings burning people alive political assassinations and most importantly when you look at the definition of terrorism under law ... to attempt to coerce a government by assassination or kidnapping that squarely defines I think the drug cartels.
Watch Congressman McCaul on Fox News Thursday night discussing his hearing on the Mexican drug cartels & his legislation to put them on the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list here.
Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight Investigations & Management have held a series of Congressional hearings the most recent of which was entitled The U.S. Homeland Security Role in the Mexican War Against Drug Cartels.
