I kept hearing Wolf Blitzer saying that all this information was in public domain...what a big fat liar. Yes, the President said we were looking at banking information....I think most assumed that would be wire transfers coming into the United States....and not all wire transfers throughout Europe.
But why was it declassified, and who was the authorized source? And, if the WSJ is working in the best interests of the U.S., why would they go ahead and publish information just because the NYT did? The plot is thicker than first thought, imho.
Don't get me wrong, I put the majority of the blame on this leak to the Slimes. I just also questions the Post's, WSJ etc's decision to also go with the story is also suspect in some ways now that they are coming out against the Slimes.
It's a sad fact that our government was forced to declassify previously classified information, used in the war on terror, because we have an overzealous press.