A proposed system to vet recipients of grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development for links to terrorism will be imposed at first only in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, according to today’s Washington Post. The article cited materials presented at a meeting on Tuesday of agency officials and contractors, and said that the agency would consider the pilot program in light of comments received until September in order to determine if the vetting system will be expanded globally.
College officials who run programs that receive grants from the federal agency initially worried that the new vetting system would subject them to costly, cumbersome scrutiny. Tuesday’s meeting suggests that those fears were misplaced, at least in part. —JJ Hermes
