Juan C. Zarate: Financial Warfare

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, spoke with Juan C. Zarate about his upcoming book: Treasury’s War, The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare, the key points made in his study of counter terrorism since 9/11 and his views on where the United States is going in terms of combatting terrorism.

Juan C. Zarate is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the senior national security analyst for CBS News, and a visiting lecturer of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to that, he served as the deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for combating terrorism, and the first ever assistant secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes. He appears frequently on CBS News programs, PBS's Newshour, NPR, BBC, and has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and more.

In addition, Zarate’s book: Treasury’s War, The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare will be published in September 2013.