Remarks of Acting Under Secretary Adam Szubin on Countering the Financing of Terrorism at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

WASHINGTON – Thank you so much, Dean Nasr and Professor Cohen.  And thank you to SAIS for hosting me today.  Although this is my first time speaking formally at SAIS, I feel like I have a longstanding relationship with this institution.  Many of our best and brightest TFI staff have come from SAIS, including policy staff, intel analysts, sanctions investigators, and enforcement agents.  And I don’t think that’s an accident or simply a fluke of geography. There may be no other school that is instilling its graduates with such economic rigor and strategic judgment. Last month, we marked the fifteenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.  In those fifteen years that have passed, the United States has made great strides in our fight against terrorism.  Our military, intelligence community, law enforcement, and national security professionals have come together to protect our country, as well as our interests and allies abroad.  And it is thanks to their tireless efforts that we have not seen a second attack in the United States on the scale of 9/11.