Gollie, Ollie - it wasn't Tom Cruise that said "Show me the money"! It was Cuba Gooding, Jr.
And Oliver North turned on President Reagan and spilled the beans on Iran Contra to stay out of jail.
Hey Ollie! The secretary still disavows any knowledge of your actions.
The NYT editors originally said said they had to go public because it's the public's right to know about such a secret program. They have since changed that excuse to the fact that there is no harm in their reporting on this program because everyone knew about it anyway. So which one is it?
Civil rights groups certainly didn't know about it. But they do now and are threatening to sue the financial institutions involved in the EU.
Co-Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Kean said that very few people even in the banking world know about SWIFT and how it works, and almost no one would have had any idea that the US was able to get access to this data.
Kean further said that: "The terrorists didn't know the financial transactions went through this one group. Treasury told me, this was a method of financial tracking that people didn't understand, that nobody knew this was how things were done. Top-notch people in the US didn't even know
Ollie North ping*
Hoo ah!!! to Ollie North!