Intelligence
A seasoned Ivy League lawyer
who began his career defending the right of religious groups to display menorahs
on government property, Cohen was the Obama administration’s top Iran sanctions
official as the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and
financial intelligence.
But in other respects, the
51-year-old Cohen’s ascent to deputy director is less typical.
A number of Jews have long
alleged that they hit speed bumps in the American security services, their
careers in some cases temporarily obstructed over security clearance questions.
For others, accusations of espionage based on ties to Israel, however remote,
have driven them from their jobs following home raids and round-the-clock
surveillance.
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