Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 09/2008

PolicyWatch #1280: Grading U.S. Performance against Terrorism Financing

Michael Jacobson

September 2007

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

In December 2005, the 9-11 Commission's Public Discourse Project issued its final report card on the U.S. government's progress in the war on terror. Overall, the grades were dismal except for the "A-minus" awarded to the efforts against terrorism financing. Nearly two years later, and six years after the September 11 attacks, these efforts remain one of the few areas of government success, though serious challenges have emerged.