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Freezing Assets In The War On Terror: Ofac And The Fourth Amendment, Rebecca Kagan Sternhell
Freezing Assets In The War On Terror: Ofac And The Fourth Amendment, Rebecca Kagan Sternhell
Rebecca Kagan Sternhell
In 2001, President Bush issued Executive Order 13224 declaring a state of national emergency and triggering an array of emergency powers. Chief among these powers was the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”), which permits the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) to freeze the assets and accounts of suspected terrorists and their affiliates. Recently OFAC has gone after U.S. charities. Three US charities filed suit alleging Fourth Amendment violations. Each organization received a different judicial determination on the Fourth Amendment question. The paper discusses these three cases and demonstrates no consensus on the Fourth Amendment issue. There …