Just answer me this:
Why is it that the liberal media and Democrats had near heart attacks when they thought Karl Rove outed a secret agent of the CIA, her position being classified information.
Yet, when the media itself knowingly prints on the front page a story giving details of classified information that has destroyed what has now been described by 9-11 commission officials as a very successful program, the liberals could care less???? They even defend it.
Its called clear political hypocrisy.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Blowing the whistle on classified information
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Except it wasn't so much a secret.
Nothing operational was revealed in that article that anyone who ever bothered to listen to the president couldn't have figured out for themselves.
when did Bush say in your link that they used SWIFT???
I don't have the time to read the whole thing right now, so just point it out to me...
if people on the Right and left, people from the 9-11 commish. all say it was a good program, if even Dem's told the NYT not to run the story, there must be some truth to it...
I love this exchange between a reporter and Treasury Secretary Snow:
"Q But the existence of this organization is no secret. . . ."
"MR. SNOW: Are you kidding? Are you talking about Swift? When did you know about Swift before? . . ."
"Q Let me ask a follow up. Are you saying that the financial experts in the terrorist ranks would not know about an organization that works for 7,800 different financial institutions in 200 countries?"
"MR. SNOW: I'm saying, yes. I think that a lot of people didn't know about the existence of Swift."
I didn't know about it, and the terrorists didn't know this program was being monitored, and many, many on both sides of the political fense say it hurts the war on teror...how hard it that to understand???
Why are you defending the Times?
It makes no sense...
Ding Ding Ding....Swift WEBSITE!!!!
Statement on compliance
Cooperating in the global fight against abuse of the financial system for illegal activities
SWIFT is solely a carrier of messages between financial institutions. The information in these messages is issued and controlled exclusively by the sending and receiving institutions. SWIFT does not hold assets nor manage accounts on behalf of customers. It does not clear or settle transactions.
Given its importance in the financial community, SWIFT takes its role in the global fight against money laundering and other illegal activities extremely seriously:
1. Responsibilities - It is SWIFT policy that its services should not be used to facilitate illegal activities. Users are urged to take all reasonable steps to prevent any misuse of the SWIFT system.
2. Cooperation - SWIFT has a history of cooperating in good faith with authorities such as central banks, treasury departments, law enforcement agencies and appropriate international organisations, such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF*), in their efforts to combat abuse of the financial system for illegal activities.
3. No comment policy - Due to the sensitive nature of these contacts, SWIFT does not comment on them.
The challenge facing the financial industry is to implement measures that prevent illegal behaviour without penalising the efficient processing of legitimate financial transactions. SWIFT is fully committed to doing its part to address this challenge and remains committed to its policy of cooperation to fight money laundering and illegal activities within the scope of its activity.
* The FATF is an inter-governmental body, which develops and promotes policies to combat money laundering. The FATF monitors progress in building effective anti-money laundering systems, it reviews laundering techniques, and it promotes the adoption and implementation of money laundering counter-measures in non-member countries.
Here's the page.
http://www.swift.com/index.cfm?item_id=6149
The president has spoken about tracking down the money many times. None of this was a secret except to the uninterested and uninformed...certainly not to a crafty terrorist.
By the way, why only mention the times, the Wall st. journal published it at the same time.
This is all bluster and ballyho ment to churn up rage from the radical righties...not gonna work...again.
OOOOOOOOO SWIFT... such a big secret they put up a web site for all to view! Gee, wonder if the terrorists are gonna come get us now? LOL
Game,
You didn't know about it? Well, by golly, I guess that PROVES that the Times spilled the beans.
How hard is that to understand? Very hard since most of what you said is simply not true.
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