In the movie "Clear and Present Danger" is a movie about a secret coalition being sent into Columbia illegally. A close friend of the President and his family are murdered aboard their yacht in the Caribbean, setting off a chain of events that leads Jack Ryan, Deputy Director of the CIA., into a dangerous confrontation with the Columbian drug cartel. This movie also ask the question, can a drug cartel obtain more power than the United States? Jack Ryan was the CIA Deputy director. He was renamed the director of the CIA after his friend, former CIA director James Greer, who was hospitalized. Jack was a very intelligent and a stand up guy. He didn't have very much knowledge of and wasn't really aware of the real situation that was before him. Greer even told him to watch his back. He knew that there was shifty people in the government that he was working with. Jack Ryan was unaware of the corruption between the drug cartels and the United States government. He was a very determined individual. He almost got himself killed trying to fix the President's power. If Ryan knew all the facts about the real situation, he could of been more productive and there could of been a better outcome.
             James Cutter was the National Security Advisor. He was considered a servant of the President. The President said to him that the drug cartels is a clear and present danger towards the United States and they needed to be stopped. Cutter knew what the President wanted. Cutter was a very decisive person. He sent Ryan to the Supreme Court to get money to support a "little war" to stop the drug cartels. Ryan was under the impression and promised to the Supreme Court that the money won't be for any military use. Cutter knew that he set Ryan. Cutter did this because the President wanted him to. Cutter is also a cold-hearted man. He let the troops, that he sent in Columbia illegally, just get shot up and die by enemy force...