Re: [privacy] U.S. Government Mining Banking Data in Anti-Terror Effort

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

Good idea, let's close down the freedom of the press because they told
everyone that SWIFT exists, and that they store data on bank transfers,
and that any sensible person trying to track money transfers would use
that data.

Next, let's close down any newspaper that mentions the fact that Iraq was 
invaded in 2003 and that we still have soldiers there.



On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Dude VanWinkle wrote:

> On 6/22/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> > Via The Los Angeles Times.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > The U.S. government, without the knowledge of many banks and their
> > customers, has engaged for years in a secret effort to track terrorist
> > financing by reviewing confidential information on transfers of money
> > between banks worldwide.
>
>
> Via the Metro http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/ap/NY_Terror_Finances_Reaction.html
>
> NY lawmaker seeks criminal probe of NY Times
>
> by devlin barrett / associated press writer
>
> JUN 25, 2006 11:00 PM EDT
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the House Homeland Security
> Committee urged the Bush administration Sunday to seek criminal
> charges against The New York Times for reporting on a secret
> financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.
>
> Rep. Peter King blasted the newspaper's decision last week to report
> that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine
> messages within a massive international database of money-transfer
> records.
>
> "I am asking the Attorney General to begin an investigation and
> prosecution of The New York Times -- the reporters, the editors and
> the publisher," said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. "We're at war, and for
> the Times to release information about secret operations and methods
> is treasonous."
>
> The conservative lawmaker called the paper "pompous, arrogant, and
> more concerned about a left-wing elitist agenda than it is about the
> security of the American people."
>
> Conservatives have expressed outrage against the media ever since the
> Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times first reported on the
> money-monitoring program, but King's call for a criminal prosecution
> is the strongest denunciation to date.
>
> King said he thought investigators should also examine the reports by
> the Journal and Los Angeles Times, but said the greater focus should
> be on The New York Times, because of their previous reporting on a
> secret domestic wiretapping program.
> ----------------------------
>
> -JP<who shudders at the thought>
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