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Subcommittee examines State Department plan to rehouse Counterterrorism Bureau and elevate its status
Summary
Witnesses told the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that moving the Bureau of Counterterrorism into the State Department's security cluster and elevating its head could improve coordination, but experts warned outcomes depend on leadership and resourcing.
The Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa met to examine the placement, authorities and capacity of the State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism and whether the bureau should be relocated within State's organizational chart or elevated to assistant-secretary rank.
Why it matters: reorganization could change how the bureau coordinates sanctions, security assistance and diplomacy across interagency partners, potentially affecting the United States' ability to detect and disrupt terrorist threats abroad.
Ambassador Nathan A. Sales, former coordinator for…
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