Loading ...OFAC’s Banality of Evil: Small US Agency Victimizes Millions of Foreign Innocents
As tourists complete their strolls to the White House from the east along Pennsylvania Avenue, they pass a relatively unremarkable, columned office building that overlooks Lafayette Square — oblivious that, behind its walls, bureaucrats are quietly inflicting poverty, illness and death on innumerable innocents around the world.
The Freedman’s Bank Building doesn’t house CIA or Department of Defense officials, but rather the US Treasury’s little-known Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Instead of orchestrating airstrikes or insurgencies, these bureaucrats impose mass suffering via economic warfare, collectively serving as the tip of the spear that is America’s ever-expanding economic sanctions regime.
Meanwhile, those who linger at OFAC in roles that sustain broad economic sanctions should confront a damning fact: they’re earning a paycheck by victimizing innocent men, women and children on a massive scale.
Never heard of this group before — probably a good thing!