For Bush, apparently, the "hard work" just got harder. DAMN newspapers!

[Human Torch]

Bush condemns leak of terror finance info

By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent 48 minutes ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060626/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_terrorist_financing



WASHINGTON - President Bush said Monday it was "disgraceful" that the news media had disclosed a secret CIA-Treasury program to track millions of financial records in search of terrorist suspects. The White House accused The New York Times of breaking a long tradition of keeping wartime secrets.

"The fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror," Bush said, leaning forward and jabbing his finger during a brief question-and-answer session with reporters in the Roosevelt Room.

The Times has defended its effort, saying publication has served America's public interest.

The newspaper, along with the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal, revealed last week that Treasury officials, beginning shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, had obtained access to an extensive international financial data base — the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or Swift.

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:evilgrin:

[MnFats]

1. disgraceful, indeed. thank God the press up and does its job at times...

ridiculous.

what's disgraceful is the sodomy this president has committed on the Constitution, mostly without a peep from the public, when there should be rioting in the streets and on every campus in the country...

[katmondoo]

2. It is only Ok to leak information about undercover CIA agents

and wiretap at will as long as it all comes from the WH.

[Totally Committed]

3. One of the Signs of Fascism is "Controlled Media":

Controlled mass media - Sometimes the media are controlled directly by clumsy government functionaries. At other times, sympathetic corporate media insiders shape the themes indirectly, and therefor more skillfully. Image regularly trumps content as the "news" is presented breathlessly and with flashy stage effects.

A practiced formula of tenacious repetition brings even the most absurd lie into acceptance over time. By design, the very language itself and the coloration employed will push alternate views "out of the mainstream".

The terms of any remaining debate are narrowly defined to the state's advantage, making it easy to marginalize a truly differing perspective. Censorship and "self-censorship", especially in wartime, is common.

If you are as concerned with the chilling effect that the Bush Administration is trying to have and the control it is trying to exercize over what can and cannot be printed in our newspapers or reported on our airwaves, check out this thread, too:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2697134

An uninformed electorate will continue to vote Republican.

TC

[calimary]

6. That's why kkkarl rove once said that "too much education isn't

necessarily a good thing."

[JuniperLea]

4. I wasn't aware that newspapers had a security clearance

and were privy to all that secret stuff!

Seems BushCo are the leakers... dumbasses.

[Vickers]

5. Hey Dumbass, you better get those terrorist sympathisers at whitehouse.gov

Oh geez, they were just posting YOUR OWN FUCKING WORDS!!!

:rofl:

What a totally incompetent tool!

:rofl:

P.S. HT, is that picture of Keef from Hail Hail Rock and Roll?

[Doctor_J]

7. ANother day, another excuse

I wonder if they're tracking the $$ records of the Saudis that the entire BFEE has been doing business with for decades.

[Monkeyman]

8. Hey he said I don't read newspapers

Funny does he now read the Times

[Doctor_J]

9. Oh, no! Now Al Queda knows we're tracking their bank accounts!

Before that liberal NYT opened their dignity, Al Queda didn't know we were monitoring their phone calls OR their bank accounts. Now they have our whole plan! OMFG!