Who is releasing this information? Why are they not in handcuffs?
Why are we not freaking prosecuting these people?
I thought this was another attack against the Swiftvets
hang 'em high.
Your friend and ally,
Osama bin Laden
I take it that the President no longer wanted it to be secret. Maybe to head off more scandal from unplanned leaks.
So how many classified programs has NYT compromised?
I've lost count.
Well now wasn't there something called "Able Danger", it is not as though government has never ever collected data.
Right on, if I was in the government in a position to do so, I would march over and arrest a bunch of them on this story.
What is the definition of sedition? Look in the dictionary under New Your Times.....
You notice that within a day, unnamed "intelligence officials" were claiming that the newly reported WMD were of no importance. Now we have intelligence people spilling more beans on the front page of the New York Times.
The CIA mutiny is still underway. What are you going to do about it, Mr. President?
Revealing classified information to the enemy is still a crime. The supposedly disgruntled officer who does it is still a double agent. It doesn't matter that he uses the front page of the newspaper as his drop. If the enemy has to decode the secret message left under a culvert, or if he can read is in plain text with his morning coffee, the effect is the same. Wartime information has been purposely revealed to the enemy.
In peace-time that rates life in prison. Just ask Aldrich Ames. He's probably kicking himself for not using the Times to transmit his data. He'd be a media hero today, enjoying his CIA retirement with his KGB supplement, and no one could say boo.
In war-time, the penalty should be something more than prison; in war-time, spilling information to the enemy should rate being dropkicked into the ocean after a long and detailed interrogation.
Islamists have been aware of the paper trail of money transfers, for centuries.
Everytime enemies of Islamists start using bank records or banking industry tips to close the net on Islamists, the hawala networks in the New World is increased in strength.
Hawala will overcome this attempt to encapsulate their money transferring systems.
"... secret ..." ????
It's not secret anymore - what a bunch of dunces!
I wonder what would happen if the home-grown or foreign terrorists could be convinced that the US would fall apart if they blew up the NYTs. I mean if they think the Sears tower will bring us to our knees....
Sulzberger is disloyal.
The Bush administration has made no secret of its campaign to disrupt terrorist financing, and President Bush, Treasury officials and others have spoken publicly about those efforts. Administration officials, however, asked The New York Times not to publish this article, saying that disclosure of the Swift program could jeopardize its effectiveness. They also enlisted several current and former officials, both Democrat and Republican, to vouch for its value.
Bill Keller, the newspaper's executive editor, said: "We have listened closely to the administration's arguments for withholding this information, and given them the most serious and respectful consideration. We remain convinced that the administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data, however carefully targeted use of it may
I take a different view on this. I can't help but wonder how many Freepers would be calling for Clinton's head if he had done this. I'm all for combating terrorists, but in my view the Administration is beginning to look like they are goose stepping across the Constitution in their efforts. The real question is, what are they doing that we don't know about? I had no problem with the wiretapping/CDR reporting issue, but this one is, in my humble opinion, a violation of the 4th Amendment. If we permit this to be established as a precedent, we have to ask ourselves what Hillary would do with this kind of power.