Debate on the success of terrorist financing efforts featured on NPR

The differing points of view of Dennis Lormel and Michael German on terrorist financing, which were laid out in a Q&A for  moneylaundering.com and  Fortent Inform and our previous post, were picked up as part of a segment on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” today. To listen.

Lormel and German will present opposing views in the panel “Point-Counterpoint: The Fight Against Terrorist Financing,” on Tuesday, March 17, from 9 to 10:15 a.m.

Lormel, currently a managing director at IPSA International, Inc., served for 28 years as an FBI special agent and chief of the bureau’s Financial Crimes Program, as well as directed the FBI’s counter-terrorism initiative after 9/11.

German is a sixteen-year veteran of the FBI, where he served as a Special Agent in domestic terrorism, bank fraud and public corruption investigations. At the FBI,

German also served in undercover operations, helping to prevent several terrorist attacks. He now serves as Policy Counsel on National Security, Immigration and Privacy for the American Civil Liberties Union.