"The Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for most terrorist states and other special programs."
SSG had to propose licensing to raise funds to fight a state sponsors of terrorism, Syria. Treasury issued the license, specifically the Office of Foreign Assets Control. OFAC has an explanation of its mission to meet "US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries" etc.
"OFAC acts under Presidential national emergency powers , as well as authority granted by specific legislation , to impose controls on transactions and freeze assets under US jurisdiction." Office of Foreign Assets Control
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is the Treasury entity that issued the seemingly exclusive license to SSG to raise funds.
As late as July 22, the SSG was identified as the likely conduit for lethal aid to Syrian rebels approved by a House Intelligence Committee. SSG's preeminent role as funding conduit for the rebels in in jeopardy. UK officials are already questioning the group's utility.
All of this raises several questions.
Was the license issued based on presidential "emergency powers" or "specific legislation?"
What role did former Obama 2008 Muslim Outreach Coordinator play in opening the gate for this arrangement?
What quality control monitoring does Treasury have in place to stop an entity licensed under this program from changing its mission?
The whistle blower indicated that SSG UK has pursued oil contracts for months.
Did Treasury know this?
What actions did Treasury take?
Writing in the American Conservative shortly after the SSG won the Treasury license, Philip Giraldi offered this speculation:
"A private group being given 501(c)3 tax deductible status to raise money for an armed rebel group seeking to overthrow the government in a country with which the United States is not at war would appear to be outsourcing to the private sector the sort of thing that the CIA used to do. And the money is supposed to be raised for non-lethal support but the group concedes that as money is fungible it will wind up purchasing weapons anyway. "
Giraldi concluded, "For some reason the expression "useful idiots" comes to mind as well as the inevitable comparisons to Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, which was supported by the US and turned out real well in the end, fabricating intelligence to bring about an unnecessary war with Iraq and later passing American intelligence information on to Iran."
Meanwhile in Syria
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