Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

The Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence is a position within the United States Department of the Treasury responsible for directing the Treasury's efforts to cut the lines of financial support for terrorists, fight financial crime, enforce economic sanctions against rogue nations, and combat the financial support of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Under Secretary is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The current Under Secretary, confirmed on July 21, 2004, is Stuart A. Levey. [cite web | title="U.S. Treasury - Biography of Stuart Levey, Under Secretary for Terrorism & Financial Crimes" | url=http://www.treas.gov/organization/bios/levey-e.html | accessdate= September 21 | accessyear= 2007 ]

The Under Secretary heads the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Both were created when the administration of President Bush announced on May 8, 2004 that the Executive Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and allocated resources from the Treasury Department would be brought under the new office's control. The Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence also possesses oversight of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (Treasury Department). [cite web | title="Bush Administration Announces Creation of New Office in Ramped up Effort to Fight the Financial War on Terror" | url=http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/js1219.htm | accessdate= September 21 | accessyear= 2007 ]

The position's predecessor, the Under Secretary for Enforcement, managed law enforcement aspects of the Department prior to the reorganization. The Under Secretary for Enforcement provided oversight and policy guidance for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the U.S. Customs Service, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the U.S. Secret Service, the Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control. The Under Secretary also provided policy guidance over the Internal Revenue Service's Crime Investigation.cite web | title="U.S. Treasury - Biography of Jimmy Gurule, Under Secretary for Enforcement" | url=http://www.treas.gov/organization/bios/gurule-e.html | accessdate= September 21 | accessyear= 2007 ] [cite web | title="U.S. Treasury - Duties & Functions of the Under Secretary of Enforcement" | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20060213064754/http://www.treas.gov/education/duties/treas/u-sec-enforcement.shtml | accessdate= February 13 | accessyear= 2006 ]

Several of these agencies are now non-existent or have been moved into other federal departments. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms was split into two separate bureaus, with one handling certain law enforcement aspects and the other handling tax collection aspects. The former was moved into the United States Department of Justice, while the latter was kept within the Department of the Treasury. [cite web | title="About TTB:Home" | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20060618080606/http://www.ttb.gov/about/index.htm | accessdate= June 18 | accessyear= 2006 ] The U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center are now within the Department of Homeland Security. [cite web | title="United States Secret Service: History" | url=http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml | accessdate= September 21 | accessyear= 2007 ] [cite web | title="Welcome to FLETC — Federal Law Enforcement Training Center" | url=http://www.fletc.gov/ | accessdate= September 21 | accessyear= 2007 ] The U.S. Customs Service was moved into the Department of Homeland Security when it became part of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. [cite web | title="CBP.gov - home page" | url=http://www.cbp.gov/ | accessdate= September 21 | accessyear= 2007 ]

Former Under Secretaries of Enforcement include Jimmy Gurule, James E. Johnson, [cite web | title="Nominations Sent to the Senate" | url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/04/20010430-4.html | accessdate= September 21 | accessyear= 2007 ] and Ronald Kenneth Noble. [cite web | title="Secretary General" | url=http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/Governance/SG/noble.asp | accessdate= September 21 | accessyear= 2007 ]

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