Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times Continue to Commit Treason: Revealing State Secrets

Bank Records Secretly Tapped
Administration Began Using Global Database Shortly After 2001 Attacks

By Barton Gellman, Paul Blustein and Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 23, 2006; Page A01

The Bush administration, relying on a presidential declaration of emergency, has secretly been tapping into a vast global database of confidential financial transactions for nearly five years, according to U.S. government and industry officials.

Initiated shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the surveillance program has used a broad new interpretation of the Treasury Department's administrative powers to bypass traditional banking privacy protections. It has swept in large volumes of international money transfers, including many made by U.S. citizens and residents, in an effort to track the locations, identities and activities of suspected terrorists.

Current and former counterterrorism officials said the program works in parallel with the previously reported surveillance of international telephone calls, faxes and e-mails by the National Security Agency, which has eavesdropped without warrants on more than 5,000 Americans suspected of terrorist links. Together with a hundredfold expansion of the FBI's use of "national security letters" to obtain communications and banking records, the secret NSA and Treasury programs have built unprecedented government databases of private transactions, most of them involving people who prove irrelevant to terrorism investigators.

Stuart Levey, undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in an interview last night that the newly disclosed program -- the existence of which the government sought to conceal -- has used the agency's powers of administrative subpoena to compel an international banking consortium to open its records. The Brussels-based cooperative, known as the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, links about 7,800 banks and brokerages and handles billions of transactions a year.

It's become almost trite that Paleo-media outlets like the Washington Post and the New York Al Jazeerah Times are working as hard as they can to defeat Americas efforts in the War on Terror. Just like the Times revelations about the alleged Black Ops Prisons which apparently don't exist, and the international phone-call monitoring, this story in the Post once more strikes a blow for Al Qaeda.

This publication of this story is unconscionable. The Washington Post has chosen to reveal another of our weapons in the fight against the Global Islamic Jihad against the West. How proud these reporters' families must be that they have chosen to publicize information that can only damage our national security.

I believe it is time for Congress to investigate the leaking of these stories and place the leakers and the publicizers of those leaks on trial. In a time of war, and make no mistake we are at war no matter how vehemently the Democrats try to deny it, the revelation of this type of information is treason. It is clearly a case of giving "aid and comfort to the enemy."

In their desperation to damage and defeat the Bush Administration, the propaganda outlets of the Democrat Party (the Paleo-media) is willing to compromise your security. The penalty for this action according to the Constitution includes the death penalty.

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