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Summary of Economic Sanctions Laws and Regulations Authorizing Treasury to Shut Down Charities

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September 15, 2009

The legal authority for the Department of Treasury to designate a person or organization as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) or freeze assets "pending investigation" is based on laws providing for economic sanctions against foreign nations, going back to the Trading With the Enemy Act in 1917 and ending with the Patriot Act.  

Amendment to State Secrets Bill Would Expand Ban on Humanitarian Aid and Other Programs

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June 2, 2009
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March 20, 2007 OMB Watcher Senate Votes Down Effort to Expand Definition of Material Support

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) proposed an amendment to the State Secrets Protection Act (S. 417) on May 21, 2009 when the bill was scheduled for consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was one of several amendments offered, but the committee took no action. However, Kyl's proposal, rejected by the Senate in 2007, would amend the prohibition on providing "material support" to terrorists to include aid to members of their families or those "otherwise associated" with them, subject to a broadly defined intent standard. The proposal contravenes accepted standards of nondiscrimination in humanitarian aid developed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and would criminalize aid based on a subjective and undefined intent standard.