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Posted on 06/26/2006 8:23:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bush slams leak of terror finance story
10 minutes ago
President Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a secret anti-terrorism program that taps into an immense international database of confidential financial records. "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful," he said.
"For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America," Bush said. He said the disclosure of the program "makes it harder to win this war on terror."
The program has been going on since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. It was disclosed last week by several news organizations.
Using broad government subpoenas, the program allows U.S. counterterrorism analysts to obtain financial information from a vast database maintained by a company based in Belgium. It routes about 11 million financial transactions daily among 7,800 banks and other financial institutions in 200 countries.
"Congress was briefed and what we did was fully authorized under the law," Bush said, talking with reporters in the Roosevelt Room after meeting with groups that support U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Excellent. It is time to do something about the treasonous liberal media and make a lesson to all of them by going after the head of Hate and Treason, the New York Times.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, MR. PRESIDENT!!!!!!
Someone needs to be in jail for this!
HANG THE LEAKERS AND THE TIMES!!
"For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America," Bush said. He said the disclosure of the program "makes it harder to win this war on terror."
Great! SO DO SOMETHING, MR PRESIDENT!
NYT ping:)
This program can also be used to screen for drug dealing, illegal political contributions, money laundering, large real estate purchases, large stock transactions, other large financial transactions, legal political contributions, tobacco purchases, etc.
That ain't s**t.
I need to see the DA start prosecuting.
The slimes has chosen sides, and they chose alqeda.
Only if you route them through Belgium.
Special Prosecutor! Investigate, Indict, Try, Sentence and EXECUTE!.........
I agree, kinda like a UN resolution isn't it?
ooops...The, instead of they..it's early!
The old adage "there is no such thing as bad publicity..."fits here.
Thousands of people in the US and Europe knew about this policy. To even frog march the government leaker would prove fruitless.
No sir. Just having the administration publicly denounce it should be enough. The NYT is a dying paper anyway. It's not even the #1 daily in NYC.
Just an opinion....of course.
This needs to be in the "breaking news section".
That is exactly what the New York Times wants
They want to see people die so they can blame the president on their front page
The people at the NY Slimes are SICK POS
Wouldn't you love to smack that hideous smile off that poofer?
If this is Tuesday, it must be routed through Belgium.
The U.S. government had better use more than words to stop this. The NYT has declared war on the citizens of the United States. They will print any thing they can get their hands on that will damage the United States prosecution of war on Islamic terrorist. They have decided that they will be on the side of the head choppers.
Whats with the Larry King suspenders look ? POS he is...
Until the President tells the AG to prosecute, this is little more than political grandstanding.
OTOH, if he means what he says, the AG will prosecute. That's the measure, IMO.
They can't do that. The Top Dog has already pre-judged the case. Prosecution is out of the question. /sarc tab off
What is and could you provide a reference?
I caught the question and answer part of the discussion on Fox a little while ago. His whole demeanor changed. He was pissed. His tone was different. You could tell he means business when he talks about the WOT. How anyone could not see this is beyond me.
I didn't know that al franken worked directly for the slimes??
I agree. Don't complain about the story getting out, do something about it!!
Im assuming this is the guy?
Yea , right, let them get away with it..The NYT would have us all killed in their obcession with trying to slander Bush ..They are a leftist/anti American rag ..TRAITORS ..Could it be ANYMORE obvious to you that this is sedition and well beyond opinion and freedom of the press?
That's Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger, publisher of the NY Times and noted Marxist, self-hating, American.
It's hard to find the adjectives for Bill Keller- the only one I've got that approximates is: FUBAR
He looks like a stone-cold faggot.
One step at a time, Laz.
Bush traditionally comes out with this type of statement even as the DoJ or other appropriate authority is working behind the scenes to satisfy your, and my, and every other outraged, citizen's great desire to prosecute this type of activity and keep the offending party within the law.
I heard about this program chatting with friend who works at a bank. He told me about it 9 months ago. It's been operational for a couple years. The software was created by a fellow out of Hong Kong. It triangulates everything about a person. The days of signing over a check for cash and thinking it's okay for omission from your taxable income should be coming to a close. It looks at signatures, everything. I thought it was created to catch underground economy tax cheats but apparently it has other uses :).
And that's exactly why they disclosed it. Deeds such as these should be proof that editors from papers such as the NYT must be either loony or perhaps demon-possessed. I don't understand how hyper-liberals perceive they would fare better under Sharia law than they do now. Truly, these folks are sick in the head. Do they have half a clue on what would happen to their rather fast-and-loose lifestyle and worldview should they succede in handing America over to it's enemies? Are they seriously expecting they'll be continuing to be attending their "Diversity Days" parades? Do they seriously expect that our would-be new overlords will contribute to the ACLU? What on earth do they expect or want as the outcome of their treasonous actions?
Many things said and done during this war have been disgraceful, even treasonous. From the Slimes to slimey Dems,leaks and more leaks, the Slimes, lies and more leaks, the Slimes, etc. Any repercussions yet after everything? It won't start now.
Rather than prosecute this and let the left once again spin things to their advantage ("FREEDOM OF PRESS!" etc.), I'd much rather wage a public campaign by the Administration whereby they constantly and forcefully rebuke the NY Times for this and hopefully allow it to become conventional wisdom with the general public that the MSM is not on our side.
Disgraceful...makes it harder...
Isn't that what he said the last time they did overt damage to national security?
"DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, MR. PRESIDENT!!!!!! "
I agree. Have a prime time national address tonight and announce that leakers and those that publish past and future leaks will be punished by allowable law and that includes members of the US Congress.
While he is at he should tell Arlen Specter to shut up.
Question: If someone were to call the FBI and report this "reporter" as a traitor and as having abetted the enemy... do you think the FBI would investigate? Can I, and several thousands of my best friends, sue this guy for putting our lives in danger?
So what is he going to DO about it?
This link NY Times pushing to be charged? UPDATED at the Anchoress site directs you to a site that states an opinion on that possibility:
The Scratching Post - KTCat is a marketer who is wondering if perhaps the NY Times IS deliberately trying to provoke the WH into making charges against them
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