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Originally Posted by powerclown
Curious how the NYT et al lather themselves into hysterics over Plame and how the government supposedly exposed her covert status (through the press, needless to say), and heralded her anti-war husband a hero, yet have no trouble pursuing and publishing a seemingly endless stream of government secrets directly involving the security of the country.
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Even more curious that you ignore the spectacle of the white house press secretary, and the under secretary of the U.S. Treasury, blatantly telling bold faced lies....not half truths.....brazen lies...to the entire world. Who do you think, instructed them both to do that?
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http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js4334.htm
June 23, 2006
JS-4334
Statement of Under Secretary Stuart Levey on
the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program
"...SWIFT is the premier messaging service used by banks around the world to issue international transfers, which makes its data exceptionally valuable. <h3>I would note that SWIFT is predominantly used for overseas transfers.....
.....Until today, we have not discussed this program in public for an obvious reason: the value of the program came from the fact that terrorists didn't know it existed.</h3> They may have heard us talking about "following the money," but they didn't know that we were obtaining terrorist-related data from SWIFT. Many may not have even known what SWIFT was.
With today's revelations, this is unfortunately no longer true. This is a grave loss.
<h3>The terrorists we are pursuing are deadly serious and take every precaution to keep their plans and methods to themselves.</h3> We cannot expect to continue disrupting their activities if our most valuable programs are exposed on the front page of our newspapers...."
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What can we conclude from what Mr. Levey said ?
<b>1.)SWIFT was secret until it was disclosed in newspaper reporting on June 22, and that "The terrorists we are pursuing are deadly serious and take every precaution to keep their plans and methods to themselves.".</b>
A few days later, Tony Snow, the press spokesperson for the POTUS speaks:
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0060627-3.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 27, 2006
Press Briefing by Tony Snow......
"Q I guess what I'm asking is -- and I'm sorry for not being specific enough <b>-- but is there the belief that even though terrorists had clearly been tipped off</b> from the very beginning by the President that there was going to be an aggressive attempt to get as much financial information as possible, <b>that they did not know about the SWIFT Bank?</b>
<h3>MR. SNOW: I am absolutely sure they didn't know about SWIFT.</h3> There are -- when you have key government officials around the world saying, we didn't know about it -- there may have been a lot of activity, but it is a program that was not well-known, including among people who have pretty high positions in the banking industry. So, yes, this is not the sort of thing that everybody knew."...
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But....you "know what you "know".....and what you "know", includes:
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Originally Posted by powerclown
Curious how the NYT et al.....yet have no trouble pursuing and publishing a seemingly endless stream of government secrets directly involving the security of the country.
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but.....not this.....noooooo, not this:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...aden082898.htm
Bin Laden's Finances Are Moving Target
By John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 28, 1998; Page A01
.......The CIA and agents with Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network also will try to lay tripwires to find out when bin Laden moves funds by plugging into the computerized systems of bank transaction monitoring services – operated by the Federal Reserve and private organizations called SWIFT and CHIPS – that record the billions of dollars coursing through the global banking system daily. ..
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