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The fact that they are chasing the money is not new," Frankel said of the anti-terrorist methods being used by the federal government. "For the last couple of years, the administration has been boasting about how they have cut off the money. I find it hard to believe that this information is of much use to the terrorists"
The loony left Kool Aid drinkers just keep spewing out these same dumbass talking point like zombies.
Petterico debunked this straw argument more clearly than most here:
"This is not the point, as I explained here. The issue is not that the stories told the terrorists we were watching financial transactions, but that the stories told them how.
Drug dealers know that police watch their transactions and sometimes send in undercover cops to buy from them. But I think the cops might still object, and the dealers might be very pleased indeed, if we pointed out the secret locations from which the cops conduct their surveillance, or if we gave them the names and full physical descriptions of all undercover officers working in their area.
Additionally, if the terrorists already knew all this, how did we catch so many of them with the program?
Terrorists are not supermen. They don’t know everything, and many of them clearly did not know about Swift. Now they do."
http://patterico.com/2006/06/28/4790/debunking-the-lefties-arguments-about-the-swift-program-in-one-convenient-post/