The logic on this is just plain odd. The story goes like this:
The US Government proposes an NSA program to track all global financial transfers.
The government on Friday confirmed the existence of the programme after it was disclosed by US newspapers. It said that since September 11 2001, the Treasury has probed suspect financial flows using the database maintained by Swift, a Belgium-based co-operative used by the world’s big banks to route about $6,000 billion a day in international financial transactions.
In an interview with the FT, Mr Levey said the US notified the central banks of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Japan about the programme. But he said the Treasury contacted only some of those countries’ governments directly.
Then, the New York Times breaks the story, or at least reports on it.
WASHINGTON, June 23 — The White House vigorously defended today a secret program of combing through a vast international data base containing banking transactions involving thousands of Americans. Vice President Dick Cheney and other officials said the program, whose existence was revealed on Thursday night by The New York Times, was both legal and necessary to deter terrorism.
But the response from some US Conservatives is really interesting. Apparently, the press isn’t supposed to report on activities carried out in secret by the NSA.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005433.htm
We’re back to the good ol’ days, aren’t we?
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