Trump Should Teach Erdogan a Lesson in Law, Not Corruption
The president offered to help Turkey’s strongman beat U.S. courts, John Bolton has revealed. It only helps Iran.
Michael Mukasey
Thirty-Five Former U.S. Officials and Policy Experts Ask Treasury Department to Safeguard Global Financial System by Sanctioning New Iran Trade Vehicle
(Washington, DC, July 16, 2019) – A group of 35 policy experts and former U.S. officials – including two former senators, four former officials with rank of ambassador, and a form...
Press Releases
Letter on New Iran Trade Vehicle
We are writing to respectfully request that you examine whether Iran’s counterpart to a new European trade vehicle formed to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran meets the criteria either for designation for being owned or controlled by designated Iranian entities subject to U.S sanctions, or for designation under Executive Order 13846. We believe it does.
Memos
Former Government Officials, Policy Experts Support SWIFT Sanctions on Iran
FDD scholars among 30 experts who urge removing Iranian banks from financial service
Press Releases
Erdogan’s Hostage Diplomacy
Western Nationals in Turkish Prisons
Monographs
The Biggest Sanctions-Evasion Scheme in Recent History
Yesterday, Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla was found guilty in a Manhattan courtroom for a range of financial crimes. His dramatic trial revealed that tens o...
Op-eds
Turkish Public Lender Joins Erdogan’s Washington Lobbying Spree
Turkey’s second-largest public lender Halkbank has reportedly...
Policy Briefs
Sometimes, strategic counterterrorism is counterintuitive
For almost eight years, I’ve waited for Congress to stand up to President Obama, to demonstrate that the legislative branch is still — as the Founders envisioned — coe...
Op-eds
What does America owe Iran?
An unmarked cargo plane filled with $400 million in cash lands in Tehran. Four American hostages held by Iran’s rulers are set free. These revelations have sparked two controversi...
Op-eds
Osama and the Two Nazirs
Their deaths are instructive.
Op-eds
Why We Need to Know Why — Honoring Attorney General Mukasey
Last night in New York City, I had the privilege of presenting former U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey with the 2012 Freedom Flame Award, an annual honor bestowed by Frank Gaffney’s...
Op-eds
Tea Party Should Oppose Latest Terrorist Bill of Rights
The reckless crew is at it again. Libertarian extremists, who purport to be the face of the tea party movement, and their pals on the Lawyer Left, whose obsession is more rights for mass...
Op-eds
Releasing the Blind Sheikh?
It is too early to tell, but not too early to be very worried.
Op-eds
The Times Swings Its Hatchet at Bush…and Hits Mukasey
Even by low Gray Lady standards, a journalistic abomination.
Op-eds
Surprise! The Times Attacks the Messenger
Linda Greenhouse is conflicted, so obviously the problem is Ed Whelan.
Op-eds
Don’t Give In on FISA Reform, Mr. President
No more delays.
Op-eds
The End of the Waterboarding Controversy?
Mukasey's letter to the Judiciary Committee should be the last word.
Op-eds
Entre Jack Bauer y Dan Abrams
En un lado del debate sobre los interrogatorios a terroristas están los Jack Bauers, aquellos que – al igual que el personaje principal de “24”, la exitosa serie de...
Op-eds
Between Jack Bauer and Dan Abrams
We need a middle ground on terrorist interrogations.
Op-eds
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
On torture and executive power, Democrats sing a different tune when the president is … a Democrat.