Good morning, everybody. Welcome. Im a Senior Advisor here at the csis. Its good to see lots of Friendly Faces in the audience. For those of you new to the headquarters, i know some of our panelists, this is their inaugural visit, welcome. After the session, we will be having a reception. We hope you can join us. Welcome, again. We are being joined via wide stream on internet as well as cspan. Keep in mind youre on tv as well as we are. But were very excited to not only be hosting this pooanel entitled assets. I could not imagine a better set of experts to speak to the range of past, current and future i e issues and challenges. Let me set the stage, in part, because weve gathered about two years ago. In what was happening systemically in terms of dealing with highend corruption. These issues are not new, of course. News a these are issues and regimes that will be with us for a number of years. What we want to do today is talk about an International Community in the u. S. On dealing wi
Something that is slapped together. So its being put together by people right there. I dont get the sense that this is being imported. To the extent that im wrong that this is something more sophisticated my sense is this has happened some time ago. Once the oil is refined you have testified that the assad regime is purchasing some of the oil. Some of it is being smuggled into the southern regions of turkey where you said the price of gasoline is higher than we would expect here. If you are purchasing barrels of oil at 30 or so a barrel you have reason to know this may be illicit oil. Are we doing enough as treasury of the United States to determine who the middle men are that are purchasing oil at 30 a barrel and make sure we are following that money into what accounts . That is exactly what they are doing, identifying the middle men. That is what i discussed more explicitly in my testimony. There is also a significant more diplomatic push to get the turks to do more in southern turke
I think breaking down those boundaries between different parts of government is very much something that weve seen and its translated into legislative action as well. Asset freezing recall, legislation that many countries have adopted. So a holding measure. E. U. Has done that. Switzerland has done that. Just after arab spring. A list of these persons, freeze their assets now. It is not a judicial freeze in the context of judicial action. It is an administrative freeze giving the countries time to prepare their judicial action. I think that sort of innovative legislation is happening. The civil forfeiture legislation that i think in america has been around for a very long time but in many other countries is still relatively new. You see that i wouldnt say proliferating but you see countries taking up those sort of legislations, so what we call nonconviction based legislation where you connect the asset to a crime. Typically on the balance of probabilities. Wont go into too many details
Just as you promised yesterday helped the phillies. They won. Amazing. Cold rain. They do well with that. They certainly did yesterday. A nice beat against the red sox. Take that red sox. Take your umbrella with you if youre heading out the door. More wet weather on the way for today. Just some light rain however. So far not a lot happening at cape may, just a little light drizzle. Radar not even picking up that light drizzle. The steady showers are missing us to the southwest. Close enough though to keep clouds around keep the chance of some showers with us during the day today. 40 degrees is where well be at 6 00. Still in the 40s at 9 00. Well stay in the 40s with clouds and drizzle during the day. 47 degrees at noon time today. Heading out the door right now, first alert traffic reporter Christine Maddela is watching the roads. Good morning. Right now things looking pretty good on the roads. A lot of green out there. The schuylkill expressway 295 into south jersey but there are wet
But there is an accident in hatboro. Montgomery county. County line road and madison avenue to be aware of. Crews still on the scene. Theyve been ought there for about a half hour. Taking a look at drive times, still looking good on 95. The schuylkill expressway. Thats going to slow down within the next hour. And taking a look at bensalem mechanicsville road shut down at street road due to an accident. A car hit a pole there. As youre trying to navigate around there, knights road is your best bet. We just got on scene to that crash. This is in bensalem. Here is a live picture. And as christine mentioned, investigators say a driver lost control and crashed into a utility pole. The victim was taken to the hospital. We do not know his condition. Well keep you posted, though. In recent weeks, we have seen a number of disturbing crimes in philadelphia committed, police say, by some very young people in this area. And we wanted to know why this is happening and whats being done about it. Tra