Treasury's War author Juan Zarate joins us to discuss how the US wields its financial power against terrorism, rogue states, and global crime syndicates.
What We Discuss with Juan Zarate:
- Why the Treasury Department became part of the intelligence apparatus of the United States post-9/11 - after resisting such integration for years.
- Sanctions: what are they good for and how do they work?
- How and why criminals (whether they're of the independent, organized, or state-sponsored variety) need banks and financial institutions for any major crime to succeed.
- What the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) system is and how it's used to disrupt terrorist financing around the world.
- For better or worse, what role does cryptocurrency play in all of this?
- And much more...
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