Looking back on a decade of efforts to block terrorist financing, former U.S. officials and investigators remember days that were hectic and exhilarating.
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a Senate-approved bill that would pressure foreign financial institutions to disclose their U.S. clients and extend government subpoena powers of financial records.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that would potentially discontinue use of a controversial emergency law enforcement subpoena by 2012.
The FBI has yet to resolve problems with how it uses special subpoena authorities granted under the Patriot Act, according to the U.S. Justice Department's Inspector General.
A March report on national security letter subpoenas stated that some companies provided excessive information about their customers during terrorist investigations.
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