Treasury Seeks $ to Hire New Specialists on Rogue States
By Jonathan Winer
One small but provocative line-item in President Bush's budget request for the coming year is the request by the U.S. Treasury for $385,000 in new funds for its Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes to "disrupt and dismantle rogue regimes."
According to Treasury, it would use the money to hire additional policy advisors to cover North Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Central Asia "on pressing financial issues."
Reading between the lines, it appears that Treasury wants the additional staff to focus on building cases for designating particular front-companies and bank accounts associated with proliferators and terrorists, leveraging the authorities it has by having the staff to actually do the work needed adequately to prepare the cases and to fan out on the related diplomacy required to let counterparts know about USG intentions.
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