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>vesti.ru (google translate)

>Relations with France, Russia attaches great importance. Therefore, it is in any case does not want to influence the presidential elections in this country. The Russian Federation reserves the right to communicate with the representatives of all political forces. This was stated by President of the Russian FederationVladimir Putin in the Kremlin at a meeting with the presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in France.

>Putin said that Russia is trying to maintain smooth relations with the representatives of the current government, as well as with representatives of the opposition, reports "Interfax" .

>According to him, Russia does not want to influence the presidential race in France. However, it reserves the right to communicate with all the representatives of all political forces in the country. In the same way, according to the President of the Russian Federation, received Russian partners, for example, in Europe and in the United States.

>>124596
>US backed the taliban against the Russians.
>Russians now back the taliban against the US
pottery?

>>124597
Maybe, but the US is spreading freedom, Russia is spreading autocracy

>>124603
its true

Now, it is no longer necessary to create awareness of the procedure. He estimates that he does about 1,500 rhinoplasties per year, but the number is closely dependent on the cyclical nature of the economy.

“If the [economic] situation is bad, there are fewer operations; if the situation is good, there are many more operations,” he said. The recent economic downturn has hurt, he said, “Now is not a good time for Armenia. The economic situation is not very good, so not many people have operations.”

But it is not only Armenian citizens who get nose jobs in Armenia. A developed infrastructure and low costs (when compared to the West) have facilitated a medical tourism boom, one driven mainly by demand for plastic surgery. Raffi Elliott, CEO and co-founder of a medical package tour company, said that his clientele among the Armenian Diaspora is disproportionately coming to get rhinoplasties.

For a nation with a strong sense of pride and national identity, the trend to make the “Armenian nose” look less Armenian can seem contradictory. Danielyan, who sports a humble nose himself, says that these days people are more looking to get noses that suit their faces, rather than simply copying the popular small, curved, Slavic noses. However, he does continue to get many requests to recreate Angelina Jolie’s nose, the most popular celebrity example when it comes to rhinoplasty.

With nose surgeries becoming more accessible, accepted, and popular, is there a danger of the “Armenian nose” disappearing? Danielyan laughed and recalled a question he got from one of his patients: “If I get my nose fixed, will my child get my new nose?”

A rhinoplasty does nothing to the genes, of course, so the characteristics are not likely to change, he explained.

Elliott, the medical tourism entrepreneur, also expressed his respect for the emblematic feature: “I like the Armenian nose. It gives character.”

And some Armenian women are bucking the trend: one pop singer, Silva Hakobyan, has shot down tabloid rumors that she plans to reduce her quintessentially Armenian nose, and says she is proud of her natural features.

Many women still worry that typically Armenian features may damage one’s marriage prospects, Danielyan said, noting that the most common rationale stated by his patients is the wish to find a partner. “If you have a big nose, you won’t get married, and if you don’t marry, it’s not good,” he said.

Rouben Abrahamyan, the winner of the inaugural Most Armenian Nose competition – and its only male entrant – says he still feels bad for his runner up. “She was very beautiful, but her big nose damaged her appearance,” said Abrahamyan, a journalist and university lecturer in Yerevan. He entered the contest because he had an injury to his nose that caused difficulty breathing, and is glad to have that cleared up. Still, he said, “I felt like changing places with her so that she could have a better nose. In my case, it was just a medical treatment, but she would look better with a smaller nose.”

>(((Rhinoplasty)))

While human breast milk, goat’s milk, sheep’s milk and all other mammalian milks only contain A2 type protein; the A1 protein seems to be only found in European dairy cows

‘While human breast milk, goat’s milk, sheep’s milk and all other mammalian milks only contain A2 type protein; the A1 protein seems to be only found in European dairy cows,’ says Miller. ‘It is thought that A1 appeared approximately 5000 years ago; and this happened to be in conjunction with the start of intensive dairy farming. However, if you travel to places such as Africa and India, the local cows only produce A2 protein in their milks.’

If you drink cow’s milk, you’re probably getting the A1 protein

‘If you drink regular cows’ milk, chances are you are consuming some A1 protein.’

Miller explains the A1 protein may be responsible for the symptoms we associate with lactose intolerance, from bloating to constipation and skin problems such as eczema.

If you’re not familiar with it yet, a2 Milk is a new milk on the block which comes from cows that only produce the A2 protein. It has been shown to cause none of the digestive discomfort, constipation or bloating that regular A1 protein containing cows’ milk can lead to.

Research from China – where reportedly up to 90 per cent of the population cannot drink cows’ milk – shows it may be tolerable to those who think they can’t drink milk.

The study, published in the Nutrition Journal in April last year, took 45 people from Shanghai, which has some of the highest prevalence of milk intolerance and gave half a2 Milk and the other half regular cows’ milk for two weeks, without telling anyone which they were drinking. They consumed no other dairy products at this time.

‘All the participants in the study reported they didn’t drink cows’ milk because they had milk intolerance and 23 of the 45 were confirmed as lactose intolerant with further testing’ explains Miller.

‘All of those who drank the A1-containing cows’ milk reported issues such as bloating and stomach pain but those who drank a2 Milk had no symptoms whatsoever.’

In the study, people drinking the a2 milk didn’t show the same IBS symptoms as those drinking regular milk

Moreover, the study subjects were also given a ‘smart pill’ to swallow, a tiny camera that photographed the gut for issues such as inflammation, they also measured for inflammation in the blood. Those drinking a2 Milk showed no signs of inflammation while those drinking the A1-containing cows’ milk did.

They also looked at how long it took for that pill to pass through the body, in order to measure ‘gut transit time’ of the two milks – this showed what effect the milk is having on their digestion time. Those drinking A1-containing cows’ milk took 6.6 hours longer than those drinking a2 Milk. ‘This indicates that if regular cows’ milk causes constipation issues, a2 Milk is far less likely to do this’ Miller asserts.

Those drinking a2 Milk showed no signs of inflammation while those drinking the A1-containing cows’ milk did.

More recently Dr Anthony Hobson, Clinical Director at The Functional Gut Clinic in Harley Street, conducted his own trial on 12 patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) to see if their symptoms might improve with a2 Milk. After an overnight fast, six were randomly assigned either A1-containing cows’ milk or a2 Milk. Those on the A1-containing cows’ milk described an increase in their typical symptoms such as bloating and abdominal pain. Those drinking the a2 Milk™ reported mild or no symptoms at all.

The British Dietetic Association acknowledges this difference in cows’ milk within its guidelines on IBS. ‘The latest IBS guidelines acknowledge that there are differences in digestion with A1 and A2-containing milks’ continues Rick Miller. The BDA suggested that more research is definitely welcomed. ‘People with IBS who think their problem is down to milk intolerance may see a difference in their symptoms if they try a2 Milk instead of regular cow’s milk,’ adds Miller.

People with IBS symptoms such as tummy pain who avoid milk may be intolerant to the A1 protein in it, not the lactose

Julie Thompson, registered dietitian with the British Dietetic Association and co-author of the new IBS guidelines said ‘this is a progressive time for research into the condition of IBS, and the growing evidence around the A1/A2 beta-casein proteins and their impact on digestion was deemed important enough to include in the discussion of the BDA’s recent report. Some people with IBS still report problems on consumption of lactose free milk, suggesting it could be a reaction to the A1 beta-casein protein in this group of individuals. We welcome further research into this topic, specifically in IBS.’

‘Increasingly, this research is showing that there are many people who may have been misdiagnosed and labelled as lactose intolerant, when in fact, they could simply switch to a new type of cows’ milk and see if their symptoms disappear,’ says Miller

a2 Milk is available in the milk section of most supermarkets for £1.39 per litre – we tested it – and it tastes exactly the same as regular cows’ milk!

Commenting before someone blows this out of proportion and vilifies California.

>>120005
They should just do their Calexit and die of AIDS 20 years from now.

I hope that doesn't pass

>>124827
I congratulate you for posting a youtube clip that's from an actual news report. It seems to be a hard thing to do for most people who post youtube clips on this board. However, it's a shame this isn't really news beyond being a lifestyle/human interest fluff piece. Oh well, beggers can't be choosers and at least for once it's a story about Ukraine which doesn't have anything to do with Putin's shenanigans.

>>124829

thank you for being whining bitch. also you are great ignoring fat nazi screaming from higher parliament position "sieg heil" "ukraine uber alles".

top kek nigga.

>>124831
The world is full of whining bitches, Anon, you jjust haven't learned to whine yet.

>>124743
Truly, the first /pol/ president.

>>124743
repost
>>124522

>Russia-generated bots are one piece of a cyber puzzle that counterintelligence agents have sought to solve for nearly a year to determine the extent of the Moscow government’s electronic broadside.

>“This may be one of the most highly impactful information operations in the history of intelligence,” said one former U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

>Bureau director James Comey confirmed Monday at a House Intelligence Committee hearing what long has been reported: that the FBI is investigating possible links between individuals in the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian campaign to influence the election and whether there was any coordination between the two.

>The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, one of multiple congressional panels examining Russia’s intervention, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that there was “circumstantial evidence of collusion.” There also is “direct evidence . . . of deception, and that’s where we begin the investigation,” said Rep. Adam Schiff of California.

>U.S. intelligence agencies charged in January that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the offensive, in which cyber operatives also hacked tens of thousands of emails from Democratic National Committee staff, Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta and other Democrats.

>A top priority of investigators is to determine who delivered those hacked emails to WikiLeaks, a London-based transparency site that published them online, the sources said. News stories about the emails embarrassed Clinton at key points in the campaign. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has denied that the Russian government was the source of the email dump.
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>As for the bots, they carried links not only to news stories but also to Democratic emails posted on WikiLeaks, especially those hacked from Podesta and made public in October, said Philip Howard, a professor at the Oxford University Internet Institute who has researched the bot attacks.

>Howard said that, as an example, bots had spread links to fictional stories that accused Clinton of involvement in running a child-sex ring in the basement of a Washington pizza parlor. The posts inspired a North Carolina man to drive to Washington and fire an assault weapon in the restaurant, according to police reports.

>Howard’s study of bot-generated Twitter traffic during last fall’s Trump-Clinton campaign debates showed that bot messages favorable to Trump significantly outnumbered those sympathetic to Clinton.

>He said his research showed that Americans who call themselves “patriotic programmers” also activated bots to aid Trump. In interviews, they described coding the computer commands in their spare time, Howard said.

>Unlike counterintelligence investigators with more cyber-sleuthing capabilities, Howard has not established that Russia was the source of the bot attacks he studied.

>Russia also used “trolls,” hundreds of computer operatives who pretended to be Trump supporters and posted stories or comments on the internet complimentary to Trump or disparaging to Clinton. Sources close to the inquiry said those operatives likely worked from a facility in St. Petersburg, Russia, dedicated to that tactic.

>“Russian bots and internet trolls sought to propagate stories underground,” said Mike Carpenter, a former senior Pentagon official during the Obama administration whose job focused on Russia. “Those stories got amplified by fringe elements of our media like Breitbart.”
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>“They very carefully timed release of information to shift the news cycle away from stories that clearly hurt Mr. Trump, such as his inappropriate conduct over the years,” he said, referring to the October release of a video in which Trump bragged about grabbing women’s genitals. That event corresponded with a surge in bot-related traffic spreading anti-Clinton stories.

>An additional Russian tool was the news from its prime propaganda machine, Russia Today, with a global television and digital media operation and a U.S. arm, RT America.

>Last Nov. 19, Breitbart announced that its website traffic had set a record the previous 31 days with 300 million page views, driven substantially by social media.

>Breitbart, which has drawn criticism for pursuing a white nationalist agenda, was formerly led by Stephen Bannon, who became chief executive officer of Trump’s election campaign last August and now serves as Trump’s strategic adviser in the White House. The news site’s former national security editor, Sebastian Gorka, was a national security adviser to Trump’s campaign and presidential transition team. He now works as a key Trump counterterrorism adviser.

>Breitbart’s chief executive officer, Larry Solov, did not respond to phone and email requests seeking comment.

>Bannon and Gorka have controversial profiles. Bannon has been accused of taking anti-immigrant and racist positions. Last week, the Jewish newspaper Forward reported that Gorka had taken a lifelong loyalty oath to a Hungarian far-right group that for decades was allied with the Nazi Party.

>The White House declined to respond to questions about Gorka.
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surely our president isn't hoping for terrorist attacks

surely

I'm surprised the NYPD got $110m to fight terrorism, yearly.

Just tell the counter terrorists to go eco for awhile, duh!

>Around ten police cars were called to Flinders Street Station in Melbourne’s CBD this morning due to reports a person was looking at pictures of dead bodies on their phone.

This sentence alone is laughably unbelievable. it sounds like he committed a thought crime or something.

that's fucking ridiculous. what if he was a med student, or a forensics student? even if it wasn't, there's nothing legally wrong with looking at dead bodies. maybe that's his fetish, who the fuck cares. it's not just fucking aussies either, it's a global problem: people panic immediately. in 20 years there WILL be thought crimes, because that's the way people's attitudes are shifting: everyone is guilty, and since it's just some fuck on the street who you don't even know their names, you might as well just call the police. fuck, i would have a hard time staying calm if someone called the cops on me for something stupid like that. there would be an actual problem very quickly

>>124486
>it's a global problem: people panic immediately
Yeah.
This has nothing to do with libtardism and the like.

This is a general trend.
People feel entitled to chimp out at the slightest notice.
Everyone is looking for safe spaces from this and that... But truth is people should develop skills to be able to manage unpleasant interactions.

We have reached a point in which unpleasantness is seen tantamount to threatening someone.

Some times social interactions just don't work as expected.

Plus, I don't like this whole idea of calling the cops at the shortest notice. When I was living in Melbourne, I was surprised at how people would recur to a public officers for the slightest stuff. Fact is, Australians pride themselves to be an assertive people; yet it seems to me they keep avoiding confrontation by demanding the State to deal with this or that.

Why can't i find the Assange press conference of today. Was it hacked by the CIA

>>124582
Ecuadorians

assange is so annoying

>(super quite mumbling) umm.. err... uhh..

With that shitty ass low quality graphic. It makes it look like he's computer generated or some shit, not helpful when his audience is conspiracy theorists.

>“When you think about millions of customers handing over their bank account credentials to third parties, who currently have no real oversight or examination of their security controls, you start to understand why our members get pretty nervous,” said Jason Kratovil, the vice president for government affairs for payments at the Financial Services Roundtable, which represents the largest banks.

>The tech companies, in turn, complain that the steps being taken by banks will not lead to better security and are motivated, instead, by a fear that the data will allow the financial upstarts to offer better deals on loans and checking accounts.

>William Harris, the founder of Personal Capital, a San Francisco-based start-up, said the problems with getting access to data from banks had grown worse over the last year. To him, it was a sign that the banks viewed open access to data as a threat to their business, given that it would allow customers to see how much they pay for financial products.

>“It’s pretty clear the real intent of the banks is to limit this data because it puts their business model at risk,” he said.

>The clash over personal financial data points to a broader recognition that personal digital records are among the most valuable currencies in the increasingly digital economy.

>Corporations are eager to gain access to the digital trails that people leave behind to determine which products are marketed to what consumers and at what prices. The data — and who can have access to it — ultimately affects how much people pay for everything from a home loan to car insurance.

>But the law has been slow to keep up with the quickly evolving ways that companies seek to hold onto customer data or share it with other companies.
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>The European authorities have largely decided that consumers, not companies, own the digital records associated with their accounts. As a result, European banks are generally being forced to make it easy for their customers to share their financial data with whomever they choose.

>In the United States, the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act broadly directed banks to make electronic records available to consumers, but there has been little detail on what that means in practice.

>The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, has made it clear that he believes banks have not been willing enough to give customers control over their own data.

>“We recognize that data access makes it possible to realize the many benefits of competition and innovation,” Mr. Cordray said in a speech this month in New York. “We remain concerned about reports of some institutions that may be limiting or restricting access unduly.”

>Mr. Cordray has been moving toward writing new rules on this front, but it is uncertain if he and the bureau will survive and push the banks to open up under the Trump administration.

>Banks, in the meantime, have taken the initiative by pushing technology companies to accept new agreements on how they use the data they pull from the banks.

>One of the primary companies that help move data between the banks and the start-ups is Envestnet Yodlee. The company said that in the last two months, several large banks had told it that it would lose access to at least some data in the near future if it did not agree to new restrictions on the data it is pulling.

>Some of the banks have said they do not want to share the interest rates and fees that they charge customers, even when customers ask for that information to be passed along, said Steve Boms, the vice president for government affairs at Yodlee.
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>Mr. Boms said that his company was pushing back against the requests because “with data limitations you are hindering the ability of millions of consumers to save more and optimize their finances.”

>JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, which have been among the most aggressive in seeking new agreements, said they would pass along any information that customers wanted, as long as the customers themselves requested it.

>JPMorgan is hoping to create a dashboard on its website where customers can choose to turn on or off the data flowing from the bank to any outside provider.

>The banks say they are pushing for new data agreements in an effort to stop technology companies from getting access to customer data in ways that the customers might not understand, or that could create security risks.

>Right now, few rules or standards exist for how technology companies can use the data they collect from customers. It is also not entirely clear who would be held liable if a data breach at a service like Venmo or Mint led to financial losses for a customer.

>“It is in everybody’s best interest to come to more robust arrangements, from a security perspective,” said Brett Pitts, the head of digital for Wells Fargo Virtual Channels.

>In January, both JPMorgan and Wells Fargo signed agreements with Intuit — the owner of Mint, TurboTax and QuickBooks — that will give Intuit more streamlined access to data from the banks, in exchange for new rules about how Intuit uses the data.

>The banks have said they want the agreement with Intuit to be a model for similar agreements with other technology companies.
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related?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hackers-flood-twitter-swastikas-nazi-turkey-germany-netherlands/

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough in a case that stoked fears across the United States.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld described the suspect as a hacker, but said his motives were still unclear. Israeli media identified him as an American-Israeli dual citizen and said he had been found unfit for compulsory service in the Israeli military.

"He's the guy who was behind the JCC threats," Rosenfeld said, referring to the dozens of anonymous threats phoned in to Jewish community centers in the U.S. over the past two months.

The Anti-Defamation League says there have been more than 120 bomb threats against U.S. Jewish community centers and day schools in the U.S. since Jan. 9. Those threats led to evacuations of the buildings, upset Jewish communities and raised fears of rising anti-Semitism. The threats were accompanied by acts of vandalism on several Jewish cemeteries.

The threats led to criticism of the White House for not speaking out fast enough. Last month, the White House denounced the threats and rejected "anti-Semitic and hateful threats in the strongest terms."

>>124471
Rosenfeld said the suspect allegedly placed dozens of threatening phone calls to public venues, synagogues and community buildings in the U.S., New Zealand and Australia. He also placed a threat to Delta Airlines, causing a flight in February 2015 to make an emergency landing.

Rosenfeld said the man, from the south of Israel, used advanced technologies to mask the origin of his calls and communications to synagogues, community buildings and public venues. He said police searched his house Thursday morning and discovered antennas and satellite equipment.

"He didn't use regular phone lines. He used different computer systems so he couldn't be backtracked," Rosenfeld said.

After an intensive investigation in cooperation with FBI representatives who arrived in Israel, as well as other police organizations from various countries, technology was used to track down the suspect who had made the threats around the world, Rosenfeld said.

In Washington, the FBI confirmed the arrest but had no other comment.

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>Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld described the suspect as a hacker, but said his motives were still unclear.
>"He's the guy who was behind the JCC threats," Rosenfeld said, referring to the dozens of anonymous threats phoned in to Jewish community centers in the U.S. over the past two months.
yeah what could the motive behind an isreali jew threatening jews be idk oh well lol weird

>hey rabbi whatcha doin?
i hate it when /pol/ memes come to life.

>Manafort, who was Trump’s unpaid campaign chairman from March until August last year, has been a leading focus of the U.S. government’s investigation into whether Trump associates co-ordinated with Moscow to meddle in the 2016 campaign. This week, the AP revealed his secret work for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago.

>Federal prosecutors became interested in Manafort’s activities years ago as part of a broad investigation to recover stolen Ukrainian assets after the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych there in early 2014. No U.S. criminal charges have ever been filed in the case.

>It was not immediately clear what time period was covered under the government request for information about Manafort’s financial transactions in Cyprus. Manafort was known to route financial transactions through Cyprus, according to records of international wire transfers obtained by the AP and public court documents filed in a 2014 legal dispute in the Cayman Islands.

>In the 2014 case, Manafort used Cypriot shell companies as part of a nearly US$19 million deal with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska to purchase Ukrainian cable television provider Black Sea Cable. Deripaska said that after taking the money, Manafort and his associates stopped responding to Deripaska’s queries about how the funds had been used.

>As part of their investigation, U.S. officials were expected to look into millions of dollars’ worth of wire transfers to Manafort. In one case, the AP found that a Manafort-linked company received a $1 million payment in October 2009 from a mysterious firm through the Bank of Cyprus. The $1 million payment left the account the same day — split in two, roughly $500,000 disbursements to accounts with no obvious owner.
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>There is nothing inherently illicit about using multiple companies as Manafort was doing. But it was unclear why he would have been involved with companies in Cyprus, known for its history of money laundering before joining the European Union, with unclear sources of the money flowing in to them and with such secrecy surrounding the firms’ connections to Manafort.

>A Treasury Department spokesman, Stephen Hudak, declined to answer the AP’s questions about Manafort’s records. “We often get press inquiries concerning individuals and our policy is to never confirm, nor deny the existence, or non-existence, of any potential investigation,” Hudak said.

>Cypriot officials said further information would have to come to the agency through a formal request to the Cypriot Ministry of Justice and Public Order — under a mutual legal assistance treaty — although no request has been made, according to two officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case.

>Democrats on Capitol Hill who are part of two congressional investigations of Trump associates said the new disclosures about Manafort’s work for the Russian billionaire guarantee that Manafort will be sought as a key witness in upcoming hearings. Sen. Martin Heinrich, who is a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said revelations about Manafort’s work were “serious and disturbing.”

>The AP’s reporting about Manafort’s activities “undermines the groundless assertions that the administration has been making that there are no ties between President Trump and Russia. This is not a drip, drip, drip,” said Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier of California, a member of the House intelligence committee. “This is now dam-breaking with water flushing out with all kinds of entanglements.”
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>The White House said Trump had not been aware of Manafort’s work on behalf of Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006. “To suggest that the president knew who his clients were from 10 years ago is a bit insane,” Press Secretary Sean Spicer said. “I don’t know what he got paid to do,” Spicer said, adding, “There’s no suggestion he did anything improper.”

>Spicer declined to comment Thursday on the information about the offshore financial transactions.

>The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN, was established in 1990 and became a Treasury Department bureau soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. It collects a vast repository of records that financial institutions are required to report under the Bank Secrecy Act, such as suspicious activity reports and currency transaction reports, and assists law enforcement agencies in helping analyze complex data.

>The agency is a part of an international network of so-called financial intelligence units that share information with each other in money laundering and terrorism financing investigations. Its work has been critical in helping officials piece money trails together and identify leads for criminal investigators.