The Bush administration has launched a full-throated attack on the New York Times in response to the newspaper’s disclosure of a secret programme which the White House says is designed to track financial transactions by terrorists.
Officials from George W Bush on down have blasted the newspaper, with the president calling the reporting “disgraceful”.
Trouble is, the secret doesn’t appear to have been all that secret.
None Too Swift (Keith Olbermann @ One Good Move)
The top Google hit for [swift] is, well, SWIFT, “Cooperating in the global fight against abuse of the financial system for illegal activities.”
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