US Financial Pressure on Terrorists and Rogue Regimes
By Michael Jacobson
This afternoon, Pat O'Brien, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes, spoke at a Washington Institute lunch.
Here is an excerpt of his remarks:
Last year, Treasury's Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt spoke to you about a "Treasury Transformed." Today, I would like to build on those remarks and provide further detail on Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI).
I will explain TFI's perspective and strategic approach for combating not only terrorist financing, but also other threats to our national security, including WMD proliferation, rogue nations, kleptocracy, drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime more generally. I would then like to spend some time on TFI's efforts to combat terrorist financing and how those efforts advance the broader U.S. counterterrorism mission. Finally, I want to briefly update you on TFI's efforts to address the particular threats that we face from Iran, with respect to proliferation and its role as a state sponsor of terrorism. These efforts illustrate TFI's broad range of statutory authorities, its effective government and private sector relationships, and substantive expertise in developing a comprehensive strategy to disrupt the ongoing threat posed by Iran. . . . .
To read the rest of the speech, click here.
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