Obama nominated someone qualified to disrupt terrorist financing. Why won't Republicans confirm him?

[Triana]

In the wake of the recent violence in Paris, there’s been quite a bit of discussion, in the United States and elsewhere, about officials using every available tool to combat terrorism. One of the least controversial measures involves attacking terrorist networks’ finances.

With that in mind, it matters a great deal that President Obama has nominated Adam Szubin to serve as the Treasury Department’s under secretary for terrorism and financial crimes. As the Huffington Post reported last week, this specific job “involves tracking terrorists to prevent them from raising money on the black market and elsewhere.”

The good news is, Szubin enjoys bipartisan support, and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) has praised his past work in taking on terrorist financing in previous administrations.

The bad news is, Szubin’s nomination has been pending since mid-April – over 200 days ago – and the Senate Republican leadership hasn’t bothered to bring the nomination to the floor for a vote, despite the fact that he faces no real opposition.

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The Islamic State funds race (translated from French)

The terrorist organization now uses the old Baathist networks to hide in offshore accounts drawn its huge oil wealth, tax, looting, agriculture ...

Daech: a State? A territory ? A little of this, but also "a bloodthirsty predatory economy". Thus the calls an Iraqi scientist who wishes to remain anonymous. While the "Caliphate" is proclaimed under intense shelling and that its territory is reduced (see page 5), executives of the group, amount of shell companies and offshore accounts in tax havens, what could foreshadow be the Islamic state (EI) tomorrow supraterritorial a terrorist group such as Al-Qaeda was in its infancy. This change requires money. Revenue, expenditure and surplus: the organization does not recruit as fighters, but also financial.

Where does the money available to the EI?
First of taxes collected from captive populations. Difficult to estimate the amounts, although Iraqi researchers put the figure at $ 300 million (approximately EUR 279 million) in taxes. The areas under the control of Islamic state are "real breadbasket," including Iraq. Again, by nature, difficult to give a figure, but the smuggling of grain would yield just over $ 200 million. Trafficking in antiquities, 100 million. Kidnapping, forty in 2014. These figures are given by economist Christian Chavagneux, editor in Alternatives économiques.

To this must be added "donors". According to a source attached by Libération, which wishes to remain anonymous donations channeled through Islamist NGOs. Some of these financial flows are from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

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[global1]

1. Because Obama Nominated Him....nt

[grasswire]

2. Rachel covered this the other night.

Important.

[Triana]

3. There ought to be some severe punishment for treasonous bastards who...

...demonstrably care more about destroying the POTUS than about destroying ISIS or other similar dangerous terrorists who are savagely murdering people all over the world.

They're indirectly contributing to ISIS by obstruction.

[meow2u3]

6. Strongly agree that charges should be brought

If those obstructionist bigots faced real criminal charges of seditious conspiracy, advocating the overthrow of the government, and a host of other charges relating to undermining the President, than maybe those pukes will change their tune.

The only reason the pukes try to subvert the President is they have gotten away with it.

[Triana]

7. "The only reason the pukes try to subvert the President is they have gotten away with it"

BINGO.

Can you imagine the outcry by media and others if DEMOCRATIC lawmakers obstructed a GOP President like this?

But it's Obama so no big deal.

Double standard duJour.

[gratuitous]

4. Gosh!

It's almost as if the Republicans are more interested in playing politics than in actually governing the country. But that can't be true, because the popular media would be all over them. Right?

[Triana]

5. Media....

...Useless.