The President Speaks To The NY and LA Times
Maybe this time we will do something about this disgraceful behavior by some newspapers...and while we're at it find the asshole who leaked the story in the first place.
US President George W. Bush attacked as "disgraceful" the public disclosure of a secret government program to monitor international finances and track down terrorist funding.
"Congress was briefed, and what we did was fully authorized under the law. and the disclosure of this program is disgraceful," Bush told reporters in the wake of last week's revelations of the roughly five-year-old program.
"We're at war with a bunch of people who want to hurt the United States of America. And for people to leak that program, and for a newspaper to publish it, does great harm to the United States of America," he said...
Read the rest HERE
ALSO!!!
The Secretary of the Treasury weighs in...
Snow to Keller [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Mr. Bill Keller, Managing Editor
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Dear Mr. Keller:
The New York Times' decision to disclose the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, a robust and classified effort to map terrorist networks through the use of financial data, was irresponsible and harmful to the security of Americans and freedom-loving people worldwide. In choosing to expose this program, despite repeated pleas from high-level officials on both sides of the aisle, including myself, the Times undermined a highly successful counter-terrorism program and alerted terrorists to the methods and sources used to track their money trails....the rest is HERE
US President George W. Bush attacked as "disgraceful" the public disclosure of a secret government program to monitor international finances and track down terrorist funding.
"Congress was briefed, and what we did was fully authorized under the law. and the disclosure of this program is disgraceful," Bush told reporters in the wake of last week's revelations of the roughly five-year-old program.
"We're at war with a bunch of people who want to hurt the United States of America. And for people to leak that program, and for a newspaper to publish it, does great harm to the United States of America," he said...
Read the rest HERE
ALSO!!!
The Secretary of the Treasury weighs in...
Snow to Keller [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Mr. Bill Keller, Managing Editor
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Dear Mr. Keller:
The New York Times' decision to disclose the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, a robust and classified effort to map terrorist networks through the use of financial data, was irresponsible and harmful to the security of Americans and freedom-loving people worldwide. In choosing to expose this program, despite repeated pleas from high-level officials on both sides of the aisle, including myself, the Times undermined a highly successful counter-terrorism program and alerted terrorists to the methods and sources used to track their money trails....the rest is HERE
posted by Outlaw 13 at 20:01
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