Posted on 06/26/2006 8:23:26 AM PDT by 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.
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If this is Tuesday, it must be routed through Belgium.
The U.S. government had better use more than words to stop this. The NYT has declared war on the citizens of the United States. They will print any thing they can get their hands on that will damage the United States prosecution of war on Islamic terrorist. They have decided that they will be on the side of the head choppers.
Whats with the Larry King suspenders look ? POS he is...
Until the President tells the AG to prosecute, this is little more than political grandstanding.
OTOH, if he means what he says, the AG will prosecute. That's the measure, IMO.
They can't do that. The Top Dog has already pre-judged the case. Prosecution is out of the question. /sarc tab off
What is and could you provide a reference?
I caught the question and answer part of the discussion on Fox a little while ago. His whole demeanor changed. He was pissed. His tone was different. You could tell he means business when he talks about the WOT. How anyone could not see this is beyond me.
I didn't know that al franken worked directly for the slimes??
I agree. Don't complain about the story getting out, do something about it!!
Im assuming this is the guy?
Yea , right, let them get away with it..The NYT would have us all killed in their obcession with trying to slander Bush ..They are a leftist/anti American rag ..TRAITORS ..Could it be ANYMORE obvious to you that this is sedition and well beyond opinion and freedom of the press?
That's Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger, publisher of the NY Times and noted Marxist, self-hating, American.
It's hard to find the adjectives for Bill Keller- the only one I've got that approximates is: FUBAR
He looks like a stone-cold faggot.
One step at a time, Laz.
Bush traditionally comes out with this type of statement even as the DoJ or other appropriate authority is working behind the scenes to satisfy your, and my, and every other outraged, citizen's great desire to prosecute this type of activity and keep the offending party within the law.
I heard about this program chatting with friend who works at a bank. He told me about it 9 months ago. It's been operational for a couple years. The software was created by a fellow out of Hong Kong. It triangulates everything about a person. The days of signing over a check for cash and thinking it's okay for omission from your taxable income should be coming to a close. It looks at signatures, everything. I thought it was created to catch underground economy tax cheats but apparently it has other uses :).
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