The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has failed to enforce laws requiring they bar organizations that support error and failed to certify that recipients do not support terrorism, two researchers wrote in Pajamas Media.

"In at least 74 cases, according to a December 2007 audit, the [USAID] mission 'failed to comply” with the anti-terrorism requirements of Executive Order 13224. It failed to vet subcontractors and require anti-terrorism certification for all contractors and subcontractors who received money," wrote Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy and Alyssa A. Lappen, a senior fellow at the center.

They said that the mission claimed the prohibition is "technically an anti-corruption measure and not an anti-terrorism measure."