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Important Player in WoT Missing
With Ambassador Negroponte named to the top intel spot, the question remains, who is minding the terror finance intel shop in Treasury? For more than a year, Treasury's then newly created postion of assistant secretary for Office of Intelligence and Analysis has remained vacant. While assistant secretary Juan Zarate has capably led the other half of Treasury's terror finance unit, the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, the seems to be little rush to fill the intel job. It was a question that came up repeatedly for Zarate during Wednesday's hearing of the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Zarate insisted that filling the post was a top administration priority, but there was no explanation of why it has taken so long, or when someone would actually be named. Maybe they were waiting for Negroponte's appointment, in hopes of letting the new director have a say? Still, the job has been vacant since its creation, before the legislation calling for the appointment of DNI, so there seems to be something else going on. Could it be a lack of focus on the terror finance issues that everyone keeps saying are so important? Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-02-18 |
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