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== Project Cassandra ==
{{Main|Project Cassandra}}
In 2008 the Special Operations part of the agency launched a multi-agency effort named [[Project Cassandra]]<ref>Meyer, Josh. (18 December 2017). "The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook". [https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/ Politico website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217223918/https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/ |date=December 17, 2017 }} Retrieved 24 December 2017.</ref> to investigate [[Hezbollah]] for allegations of illicit drug trafficking and terrorist financing. The investigation identified an Iranian cell in the U.S. which worked in concert with a Lebanese bank called the Lebanese Canadian Bank to launder money using the purchase of used automobiles exported to Africa. Project Cassandra also identified hemispheric drug syndicates involved in cocaine trafficking in order to finance Hezbollah activities. The Department of Justice issued several sealed indictments but declined to seize, prosecute, extradite, or further investigate likely targets of these alleged foreign criminal activities operating in the United States due to White House diplomatic objectives involving the international nuclear agreement with Iran.<ref>Meyer, 2017</ref> On December 22, 2017, Attorney General [[Jeff Sessions]] ordered a review of prior cases in the project.<ref>Hacohen, Hagay and Wilner, Michael. (23 December 2017). "Sessions Orders a Review of Project Cassandra". [http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Sessions-orders-a-review-of-Project-Cassandra-519806 Jerusalem Post website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225175935/http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Sessions-orders-a-review-of-Project-Cassandra-519806 |date=December 25, 2017 }} Retrieved 25 December 2017.</ref>