The reason they haven't indicted anyone for treason?
They wouldn't have a case. There wasn't a thing in the NY Times article(yes, I read every word of it) that exposes operational details of the program that weren't already in the public domain.
From a 2002 UN report:
"The settlement of international transactions is usually handled through correspondent banking relationships or large-value message and payment systems, such as the SWIFT, Fedwire or CHIPS systems in the United States of America. Such international clearance centres are critical to processing international banking transactions and are rich with payment information. The United States has begun to apply new monitoring techniques to spot and verify suspicious transactions. The Group recommends the adoption of similar mechanisms by other countries."
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N02/725/72/PDF/N0272572.pdf?OpenElement
If what you say is true, then why the outrage by President Bush and their administration????
This is why we need to get "US OUT OF THE UN"!
I'll even take this one step further . . . Even if the Times DID expose details of the U.S. monitoring that was not already in the public domain, the U.S. would probably be unable to file any criminal charges against the Times anyway.
If the Times' source is a foreign national who works for the organization in Belgium that oversees this database, then the U.S. can't possibly charge anyone in the case.
If what you've posted here is true, then I think we should all go out and buy boatloads of New York Times stock on Monday. Any media company that can print a headline story about something that has been known for four years and pass it off as "news" -- and engender the kind of response we've seen from the GOP -- ought to inspire a lot of awe in us.