Posted on 06/28/2006 11:14:55 AM PDT by pissant
Oh, but it's okay for the Swiss to house all the criminal money in the world, no problem...
Another obvious terrorist front group at work.
Thanks allot, NYT's....
WTF is wrong with these people? Are they cowards, socialists or meatheads?
Apparently so. It's just another fake "civil rights" group trying to undermine the WOT.
Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C.
Principal Office Holders and Staff
05/09/2005
Trustees
Professor Ian Angell, London School of Economics
Karen Banks, Association for Progressive Communications
Dr Ian Brown, University College London
Dr Fleur Fisher, Healthcare consultant
Alex Hamilton, Latham & Watkins, solicitors
Mark Thomas, Broadcaster
Dr Steve Wright, University of Leeds
Secretary
Alex Hamilton, Latham & Watkins, solicitors
Staff
Simon Davies, Director
David Banisar, Deputy Director & Director the Freedom of Information Programme
Dr Gus Hosein, Senior Fellow & Project Director of Terrorism and the Open Society Programme
Rosemary Walsh, Legal Counsel
Research Team
Jens Franz
Marc Gilman
Nick Pauro
http://www.privacyinternational.org/
Yep. Financed by Pinchy and Soros, most likely.
Time to prosecute the bastards.
all of the above.
Worthless leftists all, I'm quite sure. I'm suprised to not see Bob Barr's name on the list.
It's about circumventing the fact that we weren't offended at not being invited into the EU. Big whoop.
The Belgian government has surrendered. Thanks NY Crimes: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-06-28T151524Z_01_L28908490_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-SWIFT-BELGIUM.xml
Mostly myth. The Swiss are openly cooperative in criminal investigations, but AFAIK they don't turn over records wholesale the way SWIFT did. But it would not surprise me in the least if there's a little SWIFT in Switz.
How many Islamic countries and Communist dictatorships are there in the world? My guess is it is pretty close to 32.
The EU is about as worthless as the UN.
non-governmental organization
A civil liberties group
London-based watchdog
"The U.S. does not need SWIFT to spy on its own citizens' finances,"
"The Europeans should say 'no,'" she said.
Belgian Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx has ordered an investigation into the U.S. use of data, and Canada's privacy commissioner also said it was investigating.
I'm surprised that the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center aren't involved yet. Add Greenpeace, Amesty International and all the other Lefty NGOs.
How many of those give the time of day to "civil rights" groups. My guess is that they are concentrating on Europe.
Of course, cooperation is for sale, too.
They should stick to making waffles and chocolate.
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