U.S. Stopped Blacklisting Domestic Terror Charities Under Obama

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The damage done by the traitor in the White House is incalculable. The devastating effects of his disastrous administration will be felt for generations to come.

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“U.S. Stopped Blacklisting Domestic Terror Charities Under Obama,” by Eli Lake, Bloomberg, May 12, 2016 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

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The last time the federal government designated a U.S. charity as a front for terrorist fundraising, President Barack Obama had been in office for less than a month and Osama bin Laden was still at large. On Feb. 11, 2009, the Treasury Department designated the Tamil Foundation, a Maryland-based charity allegedly raising funds for the Tamil Tigers, a Sri Lankan foreign terrorist organization that today barely exists.

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Since then, the Obama administration has overseen a financial war against Iran and targeted the oil revenue of the Islamic State. The Treasury Department has pressured banks to cut ties with terrorist fronts and worked closely with Gulf states to modernize financial systems and crack down on dodgy charities and other money launderers.

But the practice of blacklisting charities inside the U.S., a key tool of President George W. Bush’s war on terrorism, has come to a standstill under Obama.

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Many experts and some members of Congress are beginning to ask why. Susan Phalen, the communications director for the House Homeland Security Committee told me this week that her committee was beginning to look into the issue. Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at Treasury, told me, “My understanding, based on conversations with several senior Treasury officials, is that this is no longer a Treasury function.”

Schanzer, who is now the vice president of research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, added that Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence “sees itself as more of an global intelligence shop, leaving the domestic work to domestic agencies like the FBI.” He continued: “My concern is that the FBI may be overwhelmed with direct threats to the homeland, thereby relegating domestic terrorism-finance cases to a third- or fourth-tier priority. Is anyone taking the threat of domestic terrorism finance as seriously as the Treasury did back in its heyday? I don’t know.”

No Treasury official agreed to talk about this issue on the record. But a spokeswoman told me in a written statement that “there is no change in policy regarding designating U.S. persons that violate sanctions, and it is incorrect to claim that Treasury principals or staff have said otherwise.” The spokeswoman added that it remains a priority to take action to protect the U.S. financial system overseas and in the U.S.

And yet an examination of the Treasury’s own website that lists charities designated for terrorist fundraising shows a precipitous drop since Obama came into office. Between the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the February 2009 designation of the Tamil foundation, the U.S. designated eight major U.S.-based charities for terrorist fundraising. These included al-Qaeda fronts such as the U.S. branch of the al-Haramain Foundation and the Benevolence International Foundation. In this period, the U.S. government also blacklisted groups that raised money for the Palestinian terror group Hamas, including the Holy Land Foundation, and for the Lebanese militia and political party Hezbollah, like the Good Will Charitable Organization.

While the Obama administration has not designated any U.S. charities since its first month in office, it has nonetheless continued to squeeze not only al-Qaeda but also Hezbollah and Hamas. On Wednesday, Daniel Glaser, the assistant secretary of Treasury for terrorist financing, told the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies that his office has waged a campaign over the last five years to keep Hezbollah out of the international financial system….

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Always On Watch
Always On Watch
7 years ago

America will reap the whirlwind for years to come because of this!

knight
knight
7 years ago

Off Topic

Today in Tasmania, tried to access Pamela Geller’s site through Department of Education Library system (LINC) and found her site blocked

Must try to unblock the site.

Millionmileman
Millionmileman
7 years ago
Reply to  knight

I can’t get Pam, Rush, Savage, etc at my Wisconsin, Toyota dealership!

knight
knight
7 years ago
Reply to  Millionmileman

You think the Asian car company would be neutral. We must not forget we fought them WW2

Millionmileman
Millionmileman
7 years ago
Reply to  knight

The owner is a Lib and Japan is now a great Ally in the Far East.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

The amazing thing is that there are still those who are victimized by islam, yet support democrats and their support of domestic terrorism.

Dean
Dean
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Those victims think it is because of poverty and Islamophobia but simply couldn’t be from the “religion”. Perhaps once that irrational beliefs are accepted even physical pain won’t cure the intellectual cancer.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  Dean

Anyone reading the qur’an, then watching the tv news can clearly see that islam is subhuman demonic violence. Nothing else.

Dean
Dean
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Of course but substantial numbers of those benefitting from civilization think that it is just savagery and can’t allow themselves to even consider that it IS in the religion. I read the Koran 35 years ago for the benefit of clients and saw that it was simply codification of Arab tribal customs, prejudices and hostilities.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  Dean

It is nothing more than a rationalization of criminal insanity that manipulative control freaks use to enslave the weak mined.

JEANNIEMAC2
JEANNIEMAC2
7 years ago

http://www.libertyforlife.com/law/posse_comitatus_destroyed.htm
Now Obama has right to declare martial law:

“In yet another astonishingly treasonous act the U.S. administration
has eliminated yet another key check to control out of control
government, the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. The Posse Comitatus Act
abolished the use of the U.S. military against our own citizens and
eliminated the ability of the U.S. government to eliminate the U.S.
Constitution and Bill of Rights by declaring Martial Law.
In early 2006 Congress passed bill H.R.5122 granting the President
the right to commandeer Federal and State National Guard Troops for use
against citizens. The bill is entitled the John Warner Defense
Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 2007

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
7 years ago

There are 174 days until the 2016 election. (if there is an election)
One more chance for the people of the USA to get it right.

Sifter
Sifter
7 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

If.

joe smith 323
joe smith 323
7 years ago

they dont defend your border so why would they blackist terrorist organizations?

Dean
Dean
7 years ago

If one just considers his deeds and disregards his words, one might think that he wants Iran to get nukes and missiles, Israel to fold and a free flow of cash to the Islamic cause. He even got re-elected so it must be lot more than just him.

Dean
Dean
7 years ago
Reply to  Dean

But wait, there is his “campaign to degrade and defeat” Isis or is that just a feeble gesture to pacify the public demand for action? Not possible, he’s the President.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

Two predictions about the worst president ever: 1) Before his term is up he will take the podium at the WH press room sporting a pierced ear ring and 2) after he leaves office it will be proven the much maligned “birthers” were right after all.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
7 years ago

Obama’s picture looks like it was from the movie The Devil’s Advocate. Al Pacino was only playing the part, but not Obama.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
7 years ago

And the limp wristed, unprincipled, treacherous Republican Party establishment – and this include Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, and other useless people – the same people who are trying so hard to get rid of Donald Trump and we can bet favour Hillary Clinton over Trump, have contributed to the circumstance by failing – probably deliberately – to get rid of Obama, despite multiple basis for doing so. Before the Congressional Benghazi hearing I, a South African living in Canada, somehow received an appeal to send money to support the man (if we can even call him that!), the Republican who would chair the hearing, so that this oh so ‘audacious’ and skillful person could do a great job burying Hillary Clinton. However, the Republican whose name I forget, turned out yet another Republican wet noodle and the whole matter fizzled out. It mattered not how much Clinton lied and obfuscated, this dumb knucklehead let her off the hook. Such is America today. Cowardice and treachery reigns from the ruling class. A revolution and guillotine are needed. Let the heads roll down the steps of the Capital!

J.W.Lee
J.W.Lee
7 years ago

This is a “green light” (i.e., “Loophole”) for terrorist financiers…and it certainly has enabled them to utilize the U.S. as their “cash cow” to: 1) obtain, and 2) move those funds (internationally) through our financial systems. This is aiding and providing comfort to our enemy, on an enormous scale, and it is Treason.

Metatrona
Metatrona
7 years ago

Why doesn’t Barack send his 2 daughters to Muslim sandland for their educations? And they can learn to wear those hideous tents that females wear there.

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