Oh, right. As if any terrorist organization, other than the made-up ones in Miami who needed instructions from their FBI handler every step of the way, doesn't already have a sophisticated infrastructure, and doesn't already expect their every action to be scrutinized, including financial transactions. Color me skeptical.
NYT:
Bush Condemns Report on Bank Records
President Bush called the disclosure of a program to secretly monitor the transactions of suspects “disgraceful.”
WaPo:
Bush Condemns Bank Record Search Leak
President Bush said today that a secret program to search global bank records for terrorism-related transactions was “fully authorized” under U.S. law, and he denounced the public disclosure of the program as “disgraceful.”
No, more likely some Republicans (and Democrats like Joe Biden) have fielded irate phone calls from large corporate donors wondering if this database will exist long enough for the IRS to get their investigators access to it? Or long enough that the next administration will be able to use it in 2009. I would imagine some rather powerful folks are quite disturbed by the news that the clowns currently running the country have created such a compilation of data.
