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What Treasury Told the NY/LA Times About SWIFT

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Posted by Captain America 2006-07-05 00:36|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "We thought that once the reporters and editors understood that one, these were not warrantless searches, and two, that this was a successful program that had netted real bad guys, and three, that it was a program that was helping us with current, ongoing cases, they would agree to hold off or just not do a story," says the U.S. Treasury official. "But it became clear that nothing we said was going sway them. Whomever they were talking to, whoever was leaking the stuff, had them sold on this story."

The more I read about this, the more angry I get. As far as I'm concerned, Keller and his ilk should all be doing perp walks. Today.

Posted by PBMcL 2006-07-05 01:25|| 2006-07-05 01:25|| Front Page Top

#2 And the leakers are goddamn traitors who should be shot. Today.

Posted by PBMcL 2006-07-05 01:27|| 2006-07-05 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 BTW, heard on Fox today that the Congressional breifings for this program were expanded only recently (March?). Hell of a coincidence, eh?

Posted by PBMcL 2006-07-05 01:34|| 2006-07-05 01:34|| Front Page Top

#4 There's an opportunity here; set up a website with all the contact details etc of all the advertisers in the NYT and LAT.

Then, have several form letters available; "Dear Sir, ... NYT treacherous action ... withdraw support for your company ... yours sincerely"

Send message to info@bigcompany.com, customer_relations@...com, CEO@... as well as to their FAX numbers

Advertise said website on as many blogs and websites as you can find, and pass the word around. I originally wrote "non-liberal websites" but on reflection, there will be a large number of liberals who will see this as a treasonous action too.

Thoughts?

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-07-05 01:41|| 2006-07-05 01:41|| Front Page Top

#5 SWIFT viewed the data requests as legal. BTW SWIFT is headquartered in Belgium and I'm fairly sure all international transfers are processed there (I've work with SWIFT systems in the past).

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-07-05 03:58|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-05 03:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Second order effects are DOD and other agencies will lock Treasury and DOJ out of any information loop. They will try to protect their program, and rightly so. This give the terrorists a second minor victory now that we have an information seam between agencies.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-07-05 05:40|| 2006-07-05 05:40|| Front Page Top

#7 The media is the enemy.
Rope.
Tree.
Journalist.
Some assembly required.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-05 09:18|| 2006-07-05 09:18|| Front Page Top

#8 As Rudyard Kipling said, hangin's too good for them. The leakers and the journalists that published what was leaked need to be dragged through the Mojave Desert behind a deuce and a half for a week or three.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-07-05 16:11|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-05 16:11|| Front Page Top

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