He suggested prophetically that NNBIS might becom"this administration's Achilles Heel for drug law enforcement."
NNBIS, for example, took credit for 136 drug interdiction cases between June 1983 and June 1984.
In January 1984 Bush's office claimed that the combined efforts of the South Florida Task Force and NNBIS "have captured 5 million pounds of marijuana - practically halting the flow of that drug into this part of the country." The claim, as Mullen points out, was "absolutely false," the figure of 5 million pounds not supported even by Bush's own statistics.
Improved intelligence, the third goal of NNBIS, was perhaps its most important mission.