Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Bush Knows Money Laundering

That's funny. Foreign Policy just conducted a survey of 100 experts on the GWOT, something they call the Terrorism Index. And the area where the experts gave the Bush administration its highest marks was in the effort to track down and freeze the terrorists' money trail through the international banking system:

"It’s worth remembering that this was the one area where the 9/11 Commission gave an A-level grade to the Bush administration. They were savvy to leverage earlier initiatives to combat financial abuse, apply them to terrorist financing, and secure broad international support," says index participant Daniel Drezner, a professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Apparently they know a thing or two about how to shuttle money back and forth without setting off any regulatory alarms. I guess corruption in Washington isn't all bad.

Posted by Judah in:  Global War On Terror   

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