Bush slams leak of terror finance story ["The disclosure of this program is disgraceful,"....]

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[Sub-Driver]

Bush slams leak of terror finance story

10 minutes ago

President Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a secret anti-terrorism program that taps into an immense international database of confidential financial records. "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful," he said.

"For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America," Bush said. He said the disclosure of the program "makes it harder to win this war on terror."

The program has been going on since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. It was disclosed last week by several news organizations.

Using broad government subpoenas, the program allows U.S. counterterrorism analysts to obtain financial information from a vast database maintained by a company based in Belgium. It routes about 11 million financial transactions daily among 7,800 banks and other financial institutions in 200 countries.

"Congress was briefed and what we did was fully authorized under the law," Bush said, talking with reporters in the Roosevelt Room after meeting with groups that support U.S. troops in Iraq.

[The G Man]

Go W!!!

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[jveritas]

Excellent. It is time to do something about the treasonous liberal media and make a lesson to all of them by going after the head of Hate and Treason, the New York Times.

[Londo Molari]

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, MR. PRESIDENT!!!!!!

Someone needs to be in jail for this!

[Suzy Quzy]

HANG THE LEAKERS AND THE TIMES!!

[The G Man]

Worth repeating:

"For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America," Bush said. He said the disclosure of the program "makes it harder to win this war on terror."

[pgyanke]

Great! SO DO SOMETHING, MR PRESIDENT!

[SE Mom]

NYT ping:)

[Doctor Stochastic]

This program can also be used to screen for drug dealing, illegal political contributions, money laundering, large real estate purchases, large stock transactions, other large financial transactions, legal political contributions, tobacco purchases, etc.

[Lazamataz]

President Bush on Monday sharply condemned

That ain't s**t.

I need to see the DA start prosecuting.

[RoseofTexas]

They way to fight these Bastards is to include the CHILDREN! He needs to say that the NYSLIMES endangered our Children! If there is one thing the American Folk get real stirred up is when the America children's lives are at stake....HE NEEDS TO HAMMER IT INTO THE AMERICAN MINDS..day in and day out...keep telling the folk the NYSLIMES is the enemy within!!

[weezel]

The slimes has chosen sides, and they chose alqeda.

[NonValueAdded]

Only if you route them through Belgium.

[Red Badger]

Special Prosecutor! Investigate, Indict, Try, Sentence and EXECUTE!.........

[calex59]

President Bush on Monday sharply condemned That ain't s**t. I need to see the DA start prosecuting.

I agree, kinda like a UN resolution isn't it?

[RoseofTexas]

ooops...The, instead of they..it's early!

[DCPatriot]

I believe the NYT is just itching for the federal government to come after them.

The old adage "there is no such thing as bad publicity..."fits here.

Thousands of people in the US and Europe knew about this policy. To even frog march the government leaker would prove fruitless.

No sir. Just having the administration publicly denounce it should be enough. The NYT is a dying paper anyway. It's not even the #1 daily in NYC.

Just an opinion....of course.

[jveritas]

This needs to be in the "breaking news section".

[Mo1]

. He said the disclosure of the program "makes it harder to win this war on terror."

That is exactly what the New York Times wants

They want to see people die so they can blame the president on their front page

The people at the NY Slimes are SICK POS

[pissant]

Wouldn't you love to smack that hideous smile off that poofer?