SCUM.....lowlife scum sucking....&%#!@^!!!!
I really sense the media has sunk the democrats. They are the enemy's newspapers.
"Although there is no direct connection, the programme has echoes of a recently revealed US surveillance programme in which millions of international and domestic phone calls and e-mails were monitored, correspondents say."
Bull!
Bill Keller needs to be held accountable for the damage he has done to the security of this country.
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This SH!T has GOT to STOP!!!
The New York Times should be closed as a subversive organisation and anyone caught with one of their papers be prosecuted for financing terror.
You realize Bush's poll numbers went up to 44%. So they had to come out with this!!!
This is the same method the US government uses to track drug dealers and mafia money. All legal.
Ping me if it's not..
The government needs to show some balls and obtain subpoenas against these reporters revealing these classified programs so we can find out their sources.
If the NYT believes they have a constitutional right to reveal classified programs without having to reveal their sources and without legal penalty, let them try that argument in court. Most of the American people will, I believe, side with the government and not the NYT when it comes to revealing classified surveillance methods used against terrorists.
The media has changed. In World War II, the major media would never have published something like this, tipping off the enemy to our methods of surveillance.
So now it's time for law enforcement to change, too. We need to prosecute those revealing these classified programs. If we need new laws so that reporters can be convicted as well as the source, so be it. We do have, and ought to have, a method by which whistleblowers can reveal wrong-doing within the government. This does not appear to fall within that exception.
Bank Data Secretly Reviewed by U.S. to Fight Terror
And Washington Post article:
Bank Records Secretly Tapped
Administration Began Using Global Database Shortly After 2001 Attacks
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Terrorism investigators had sought access to SWIFT's database since the 1990s, but other government and industry authorities balked at the potential blow to confidence in the banking system. After the 2001 attacks, President Bush overrode those objections and invoked his powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to "investigate, regulate or prohibit" any foreign financial transaction linked to "an unusual and extraordinary threat."
Levey and other officials emphasized that the government has confined its financial surveillance to legitimate terrorism investigations and tightly targeted searches.
After identifying a suspect, Levey said, "you can do a search, and you can determine whom he sent money to, and who sent money to him."
"The way the SWIFT data works, you would have all kinds of concrete information -- addresses, phone numbers, real names, account numbers, a lot of stuff we can really work with, the kind of actionable information that government officials can really follow up on," Levey said.
He spoke about the program after it became clear the New York Times was planning to publish an article about it. The Times and other news organizations posted articles online last night.
Levey maintained that the government has "put into place very robust controls to make sure we are only using this information for anti-terrorism purposes."
The interesting thing to me is that they finally convinced SWIFT to open its records. That has been sought ever since the WOD started. SWIFT resisted furiously throughout the 1980s.
Maybe 9/11 made believers out of some Belgians, too.
this would be great in the fight against pornography and gambling.
And Interpol has done it for years in Europe, big deal about nothing.
I hope this liberal "whistle-blower" is caught and prosecuted.
I'm not sure what all the hoopla on the left is about. My understanding is that the information that the government was analyzing was openly available. It's not like they were tapping phones or spying on anyone. They were crunching numbers and plowing through information available to any central bank through entirely legal channels.