The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury,and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters pertaining to economic and fiscal policy. The secretary is,by custom,a member of the president's cabinet and,by law,a member of the National Security Council.
The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the president of the United States for consideration of national security,military,and foreign policy matters. Based in the White House,it is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States,and composed of senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials.
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States,where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the U.S. Mint. These two agencies are responsible for printing all paper currency and minting coins,while the treasury executes currency circulation in the domestic fiscal system. The USDT collects all federal taxes through the Internal Revenue Service;manages U.S. government debt instruments;licenses and supervises banks and thrift institutions;and advises the legislative and executive branches on matters of fiscal policy. The department is administered by the secretary of the treasury,who is a member of the Cabinet. The treasurer of the United States has limited statutory duties,but advises the Secretary on various matters such as coinage and currency production. Signatures of both officials appear on all Federal Reserve notes.
Paul Henry O'Neill was an American businessman and government official who served as the 72nd United States secretary of the treasury for part of President George W. Bush's first term,from January 2001 to December 2002. Secretary Paul H. O'Neill resigned from the Treasury Department on December 6,2002. Prior to his term as secretary of the treasury,O'Neill was chairman and CEO of industrial giant Alcoa and chairman of the RAND Corporation.
Richard Vincent Allen is a former United States National Security Advisor serving President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982. In 1977,prior to Reagan's presidential election in November 1980,he served as Reagan's chief foreign policy advisor. Since 1983,he has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a past member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is an American think tank based in Washington,D.C. From its founding in 1962 until 1987,it was an affiliate of Georgetown University,initially named the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown University. The center conducts policy studies and strategic analyses of political,economic and security issues throughout the world,with a focus on issues concerning international relations,trade,technology,finance,energy and geostrategy.
Dov S. Zakheim is an American businessman,writer,and former official of the United States government. In the Reagan administration,he held various Department of Defense positions. In 2000,Zakheim was a member of "The Vulcans",a group of foreign policy advisors assisting George W. Bush's presidential campaign. From 2001 to 2004 he was Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Defense.
Fred Charles Iklé was a Swiss-American sociologist and defense expert. Iklé's expertise was in defense and foreign policy,nuclear strategy,and the role of technology in the emerging international order. After a career in academia he was appointed director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1973–1977,before becoming Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He was later a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Department of Defense's Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee,a Distinguished Scholar with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a Director of the National Endowment for Democracy.
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. with campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China.
Robert Bruce Zoellick is an American public official and lawyer who was the 11th president of the World Bank Group,a position he held from July 1,2007,to June 30,2012. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs,United States Deputy Secretary of State and U.S. Trade Representative,from February 7,2001,until February 22,2005. Zoellick has been a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs since ending his term with the World Bank. He is currently a Senior Counselor at Brunswick Group.
Jeremy Shapiro is a research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Previously he was special advisor to the assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to his appointment he was director of research at the "Center on the United States and Europe" at the Brookings Institution. His expertise is in the fields of Civil-military relations,Europe,France,military operations,national security and transatlantic diplomacy.
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields,as well as the Executive MPA and PhD program in Sustainable Development.
The Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA) is a component of the United States Department of the Treasury responsible for the receipt,analysis,collation,and dissemination of foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information related to the operation and responsibilities of the Treasury Department.
The "kill or capture" strategy is a policy adopted in 2007 by the United States in Iraq to confront suspected Iranian operatives in Iraq. These Iranian operatives were accused of supplying various militias in Iraq with technical,financial,and material support so that they can carry out terrorist attacks against U.S.-led Coalition forces.
The United States Deputy National Security Advisor is a member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and the United States National Security Council,serving under the President's National Security Advisor.
Richard A. Falkenrath Jr. served as deputy commissioner of counter-terrorism of the New York City Police Department from 2006 to 2010. He was the third person to hold this position. His predecessors were Frank Libutti and Michael A. Sheehan.
Barton David Gellman is an American author and journalist known for his reports on the September 11 attacks,on Dick Cheney's vice presidency,and on the global surveillance disclosure. Beginning in June 2013,he authored The Washington Post's coverage of the U.S. National Security Agency,based on top secret documents provided to him by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. He published a book for Penguin Press on the rise of the surveillance-industrial state in May 2020,and joined the staff of The Atlantic.
Stuart A. Levey was the first Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence within the United States Department of the Treasury. He was sworn in on July 21,2004 as a political appointee of President George W. Bush. President Barack Obama asked Levey to remain in his position and Levey was one of only a small number of Senate-confirmed Bush appointees who served in the Obama Administration. After leaving the government,Levey joined the private sector as chief legal officer of HSBC,CEO of Diem Association and chief legal officer of Oracle.
Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies (CSS). From 2005 to early 2007 he was a deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity,he served both as a senior official within the department's terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. From 2001 to 2005,Levitt served the Institute as founding director of its Terrorism Research Program,which was established in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Previously,he provided tactical and strategic analytical support for counter-terrorism operations at the FBI,focusing on fundraising and logistical support networks for Middle Eastern terrorist groups. During his FBI service,Levitt participated as a team member in a number of crisis situations,including the terrorist threat surrounding the turn of the millennium and the September 11 attacks.
David Aufhauser,American lawyer,served as the General Counsel of the United States Treasury Department from 2001 to 2004. After 9/11,Aufhauser was a key player in disrupting and freezing further terrorist activity against the United States. He is best known for running the federal government's programs to go after terrorist financing,a major strategy in the war on terror. He ran the National Security Council Committee on Terrorist Financing;oversaw the legal departments of important agencies and divisions within the U.S. Treasury Department including International Banking,Domestic Banking,the U.S. Customs Service,IRS criminal and civil divisions,ATF,Financial Crimes and Money Laundering,and United States Secret Service;and supervised the federal government's multi-agency antiterrorism task force. In his numerous briefings before the House and Senate,he emphasized the importance of teaching tolerance and respect,often making clear distinctions between the vast majority of peaceful people in the Middle East and the practitioners of “counterfeit religion”who preyed on hopelessness to recruit terrorists.
