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FDD Launches Center on Economic and Financial Power, Names Former Treasury Advisor Eric B. Lorber as Senior Director
(Washington, D.C., January 9, 2019) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) today unveiled its...
Press Releases
Beneficial Ownership: Fighting Illicit International Financial Networks Through Transparency
Download the full testimony here. Chairman Grassley, Ranking Me...
Congressional Testimonies
S. 1241: Modernizing AML Laws to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
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Congressional Testimonies
Lynch and Nisman: Connecting the Dots Between Two Iranian Plots
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings on January 28 for Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, to become attorney general of the United State...
Policy Briefs
‘Representing’ Al-Qaeda
Bravely entering the lion’s den — delivering a speech in praise of left-wing, “pro bono” lawyering to a group of left-wing, pro bono lawyers — Attorney General Eric...
Op-eds
FISA Reform Debacle in the Making?
Collecting intelligence and connecting dots isn’t just good policy. It’s good politics. The reform of FISA -- the ill-conceived, outdated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
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
FISA Deal on the Horizon?
Aggressive foreign intelligence collection is not just an imperative; it's popular.
Op-eds
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
On torture and executive power, Democrats sing a different tune when the president is … a Democrat.
Op-eds
Holder vs. Holder
Why does the Obama Justice Department seem to have trouble mounting a full-throated, compelling legal defense of Osama bin Laden’s killing? The problem for Eric Holder the attorney ge...
Op-eds
Another National-Security Flip-Flop
No sooner did Victor Davis Hanson compile a prodigious list of national-security flip-flops by the Obama Left (posted on the Corner under the title “If We Say It Is, It Is . . . ”) th...
Op-eds
I’ll See Your Cyberwar and Raise You One Subpoena
Referring to the feckless cease-and-desist letter the State Department's Harold Koh sent to Wikileaker Julian Assange, Jonah aptly...
Op-eds
Holder’s Sham Trial
“By prosecuting Ahmed Ghailani in federal court,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a May 21, 2009, statement, “we will ensure that he finally answers for his alleged role in...
Op-eds
The Election and DOJ Oversight
Obviously, there are many things that can be stuffed into the “First Order of Business” file, but one of them ought to be oversight of the Oba...
Op-eds
Civilian Trial For 9/11 Suspects Should Be Off The Table
Holding such a trial would not only put classified information at risk but also put a dozen unlucky jurors potentially in harm's
Op-eds
A Truth Commission?
A growing chorus of critics is demanding the creation of a special commission to "investigate" the Bush administration's alleged abuses of power, especially prosecution of the war on terrori...
Op-eds
The End of the Waterboarding Controversy?
The waterboarding controversy should end with a whimper. It probably won’t, but it should. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has studied U.S. interrogation methods, as he committ...
Op-eds
The Inter-Branch Clash Over Fired U.S. Attorneys
From the very start, the Bush administration’s self-induced debacle over fired United States attorneys has blurred law and politics. Now, the blur has officially grown into the fog of inter...