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The Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence is the most crucial, and key national security agency in the United States government. This agency’s role is to operate the department's intelligence and enforcement functions with the tasks of protecting the financial system against illegal use and combating terrorist nations and enablers, producers of weapons of mass destruction, money launderers, drug dealers, and many other security threats.
Terrorism and Financial Intelligence creates and executes U.S. strategies to battle terrorist financing domestically and internationally, creates and executes the National Money Laundering Strategy as well as other policies and programs to fight crime.
Agencies working together are an important device in TFI's prosecution of the war on financial terror. With help, TFI is able to freeze the assets of individuals or groups who intend to commit terrorist acts, along with those individuals who attempt to help terrorists groups. When evaluating persons or organizations for potential designation, the United States works with authorities from other nations and with international organizations, such being the European Union and the United Nations.

Money Laundering

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an international policymaking and highly regarded agency devoted to hinder money laundering and terrorist financing. Created by the G-7 in 1989 in reaction to a growing concern of money laundering, the FATF's mission is to observe members' progress in implementing measures, review money laundering and terrorist financing activities and counter- measures, and promote implementation of measures globally. Individuals of the TFI staff chair the U.S. delegation to the FATF. The FATF has been...

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Works Cited

Josh Rogin (2014). http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/24/u-s-investigating-dennis-rodman-for-busting-sanctions.html
US Department of the Treasury(2013). http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/terrorist-illicit-finance/Pages/Financial-Action-Task-Force.aspx
US Department of the Treasury(2013).http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/terrorist-illicit-finance/Pages/default.aspx
US Department of the Treasury(2013).http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/terrorist-illicit-finance/Pages/Money-Laundering.aspx

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