Fifteen government officials shared one podium on Thursday afternoon to announce a new Nashville-based joint Homeland Security Task Force at the Fred D. Thompson Federal Courthouse.

At times, sentences were strewn with too many acronyms for a civilian to keep straight — acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee Robert McGuire convened agents and representatives from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to emphasize collaboration between city, state and federal governments.

The task force will ope rate with a broad scope of work, including investigations related to fentanyl use and tra

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