TFI's mandate to identify, disrupt and disable illicit foreign funds that threaten our homeland has become one of the Treasury's defining responsibilities. And today we are extending that abiding mission to meet an evolving threat. The resurgence of organized political terrorism has long occupied a blind spot. The international community has struggled to identify this danger, much less defeat it. But as the threat of terrorism evolves, the institution tools that defend against it must adapt. We once understood terrorism principally as an external menace that is no longer the world we inhabit. (39:13–39:25)
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Asserts that organized political terrorism has been a blind spot for the international community, which struggles to address it.
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