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A review of Julia Morse, “The Bankers’ Blacklist: Unofficial Market Enforcement and the Global Fight Against Illicit Financing” (Cornell University Press, 2021).
Getting a clearer sense of the Taliban’s finances will help develop a more nuanced and balanced picture of the group.
How can the United States address the problem of anonymous corporate ownership?
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
So now that France is "at war" with radical Islam, now that 1.6 million people and forty heads of state and prime ministers have turned out in the streets of Paris, now that the costs to a society of tolerating the most
Two hearings in one week on bitcoin. On Monday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on virtual currencies.
Panel I Jennifer Shasky Calvery (Testimony) Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S.A veteran administration official emailed me just now in response to my piece last night on congressional Republicans and the shutdown: "Nice Piece (on the shutdown)," the official writes. "You are right about the impact it is having. Our sanctions efforts are crippled: Nobody home to detect violations or go after violators." Great.
Keep it up, guys.
If others in the trenches have thoughts about the effect of the shutdown on our national security efforts, shoot me an email.
Cambridge University Press has made this cache of terrorism articles from its international relations journals available for free--until October 6. Check 'em out.
Speaking of OFAC's process for sanctions designations, the 9th Circuit has just ruled against it in a case involving the constitutionality of its designation process, though it also held that the designation of the plaintiff (al-Haramain) was appropriate. The opinion concludes:
In summary, we hold as follows: