A lot of Islamic charities, especially they fill gaps in social services that the state just can't or doesn't provide. How do you shut down a charity that's run by a specific religion without looking like you're targeting one that specific religion itself? It's really hard. You can dismantle the charity and interrupt terrorist cash, but then you piss off all these people that that charity served. And I think there you then have to do other things, not just target. The funds are co-mingled. There is no real difference between the social committee and the militant committee. They're all the same folks and they're all in service in the same goals.
Treasury's War author Juan Zarate joins us to discuss how the US wields its financial power against terrorism, rogue states, and global crime syndicates.
What We Discuss with Juan Zarate:
- Why the Treasury Department became part of the intelligence apparatus of the United States post-9/11 — after resisting such integration for years.
- Sanctions: what are they good for and how do they work?
- How and why criminals (whether they're of the independent, organized, or state-sponsored variety) need banks and financial institutions for any major crime to succeed.
- What the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) system is and how it's used to disrupt terrorist financing around the world.
- For better or worse, what role does cryptocurrency play in all of this?
- And much more...
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