{"id":618958,"date":"2026-06-24T06:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/catholic-leaders-us-authorities-challenge-clarity-act-over-illicit-activity\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:52:42","slug":"catholic-leaders-us-authorities-challenge-clarity-act-over-illicit-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/catholic-leaders-us-authorities-challenge-clarity-act-over-illicit-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic leaders, US authorities challenge CLARITY Act over illicit activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRegulatory certainty should not come at the expense of accountability, transparency, victim protection, or public safety,\u201d the law enforcement associations said. <\/p>\n<p>A group of law enforcement organizations and a coalition of Catholic organizations have become the latest two groups urging caution over the US CLARITY Act, which is heading for a key hearing in July.<\/p>\n<p>In letters sent Tuesday, four law enforcement organizations reached out to White House officials with concerns that the CLARITY Act could create oversight gaps when it comes to illicit activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegulatory certainty should not come at the expense of accountability, transparency, victim protection, or public safety,\u201d they said. The Alliance to End Human Trafficking, founded by US Catholic Sisters, said these oversights could make it harder to crack down on human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/law-enforcement-and-catholic-groups-warn-clarity-act-facilitates-crypto-crime?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_medium&amp;utm_campaign=rss_feed_medium\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRegulatory certainty should not come at the expense of accountability, transparency, victim protection, or public safety,\u201d the law enforcement associations said. A group of law enforcement organizations and a coalition of Catholic organizations have become the latest two groups urging caution over the US CLARITY Act, which is heading for a key hearing in July. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-618958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}