Anti-Terrorism Debarment Project

For 20 years Washington treated debarment as a dead letter while terror-linked groups cashed federal checks. The Forum built the enforcement framework that ended that. The four verbs are the method: debar them from federal funding, derisk them out of the financial system, delist them from nonprofit registries, and designate them where the evidence supports it.

A terror designation makes headlines. A debarment stops checks. Suspension and debarment reach across the entire federal government at once: a debarred organization is barred from grants and contracts governmentwide, and the debarment is public, searchable, and durable. It is the rare enforcement tool that requires no new statute, no jury, and no appropriation, only a case file strong enough to move an agency.

14 cases are open now. The model moves agency by agency until the checks stop, and every completed case becomes precedent that makes the next one faster.