Thread: U.S. tracks bank records in terror investigations

“One of the most important tools in the fight against terror is our ability to choke off funds for the terrorists.”

Now, how can the People choke off funds that Bushco extorted from his war of Lies?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13492032/

This story first broke in the New York Times. Who ever is leaking this stuff to the needs to be caught and prosecuted. They are undermining our ability to track these people down. Everytime these Top Secret programs are released to the public. The enemy makes adjustments. I truley beleive that the NY times is allowing there hatred of the bush admin. to do anything they can to cause controversy. the problem is they are assisting al Qaeda.

SO you are saying that whoever realizes that the governemtn is violating the law and letting the people know should be prosecuted? I dissagree - they are the essence of American justice. Those woo are breaking the law by allowing warrantless seaizures of financial transactions should be prosecuted, not those who warn the people about it.

Was a law violated?

Search and seizure of a person's property/posessions can not be done without a warrant. Financial records a a record of property trading of a person. You need a warrant.

There are many time past when court cases were lost by the prosecution because they searched financial records without a warrant.

Treasury Department officials said they used broad subpoenas to collect the financial records from an international system known as Swift. Stuart Levey, Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, called the subpoenas “a legal and proper use of our authorities.”
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While confirming the newspaper reports, both Levey and Perino expressed concern that disclosure of the program could undermine efforts to track terrorism-related activities.

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The service generally doesn’t detect private, individual transactions in the United States, such as withdrawals from an ATM or bank deposits. It is aimed mostly at international transfers.

Oh phew! For a minute there I thought US citizens might be having their rights trampled. Thank God it's only the other 5 billion of us that will be affected. Well, if we were innocent we wouldn't be foreigners. I say nuke us all... who the hell do we think we are keeping our financial secrets away from filthy rich Texas oilmen. If we have nothing to hide, why on earth would we object to a fanatic religious group, constantly fighting off allegations of corruption and abuse of funds, having complete access to the legally private financial information of people in foreign countries.

Honeslty tell me that if China had your information you would say, "Oh I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I worry that a foreign power is monitering my private information secretly, and in fact, I would really like to prosecute the news agency that revealed this very explosive information."

Hoenslty... honestly tell me that makes sense to you. That you will voluntarily give all your private banking information to a foreign government.

Would you for once ... THINK before just denying everything against the political party you blindly support. Wrong is wrong... doesn't matter if the person doing it is in your little neo-con club or not.

Well, this is right up there with the phone records thing. Big Brother is watching.
Pookie