Posted on 06/27/2006 8:20:46 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
When will we decide when treason is treason
Their reporters on the front can take up "point" with patrols or otherwise cover the story on their own...
typical lib hypocrites... they support the troops, just not any Christian, Republican, heterosexual troops...
f'ing asshats..
If you ever wanted hard proof that the NY Times will print whatever it thinks will advantage its political allies and/or damage its enemies regardless of principle or consistency or even the need to address a past, contradictory assertion... here ya go.
I hope and pray that President Bush will instruct AG Gonzales to indict the NY Slimes.
Never happen. The best we can hope for is that they will go for the leaker. Then they could drag in the NYT to reveal the source. Televise this and hammer the Times. Jail those that would not reveal the source. No other action will be taken since we have a problem - the JD.
I have been hoping the Justice Dept would finally begin to do its job for a couple of years now but no, the administration is too afraid of the Times to allow Justice to act.
It looks like other people are picking up on your research.
Welcome to Free Republic. I'll take Secretary Snow's statements that the NYT did to this program over a new freeper's statements and questions.
Hey TROLL! Do they know that we were doing this using the SWIFT system?
I smell ozone...
We'll never hear from that freeper again. He outted himself too soon.
Obviously they did not know we were monitoring their cell phone usage early on in Afghanistan because after it was leaked by the press the cell phone activity ceased or was used sparingly. So yes, the terrorists are stupid and you cannot assume intelligence on their part.
What if one of the so called terrorists were not reminded of the fact that we are monitoring financial messages and transfers and he/she slips up and tries a financial transaction? With the NY Times leaking this information, they have just provided the enemy with information, or reminded them, to be waring of such transactions that will make it harder for us to take them out.
It seems you're wrong.
If ALL terrorists knew what we were doing, some of these wouldn't have been captured using the SWIFT program:
SWIFT data have "enabled us ... to identify terror suspects that we didn't know, as well as to find addresses and other identifiers for those terrorists that we did know about. It provided key links in our investigations of al-Qaida and other deadly terrorist groups."
Levey declined to identify any terrorist apprehended as a result of the SWIFT data, but Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, said the information had helped capture Nurjaman Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali, an Indonesian described by Bush as "one of the world's most lethal terrorists" after his 2004 arrest in connection with the Bali bombing that killed 202 people the previous year.
"It's provided information on domestic terror cells," Snow said. "It helped identify a Brooklyn man convicted on terrorism-related charges last year."
SWIFT's extensive U.S. operations enabled Treasury to issue what the organization called "compulsory" subpoenas in this country, officials said Friday. But Levey insisted that stringent safeguards were put in place to protect banking privacy and to ensure that U.S. intelligence had access only to records of persons whose possible terrorist connections it could prove.
"We started with really narrowly crafted subpoenas all tied to terrorism," Treasury Secretary Snow said. But because SWIFT "didn't have the ability to extract the particular information from their broad database ... they said, 'We'll give you all the data.'" Once a suspect was identified, U.S. officials had to present SWIFT with evidence of terrorist connections - in the form of a name on a watch list, or a classified cable - and were allowed to access information tied only to that name.
Rev. White
Since Jun 27, 2006
"Help me understand this. Do you actually believe terrorists have no idea we do this stuff? They have no idea we're tracking phone calls and financial transactions? No one can be that stupid."
Nice try, one day Brown Shirted left wing troll!
By the way your posting of this inane reply has left an electronic bread crumb trail to you. You had best hope, who ever pays you is listed as one receiving funds from the al Qaeda serial killers.
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