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Originally posted by Rodeo
If Kene speaks to anyone other than Byron York of the National Review about this, and so far he has not, maybe we will find out why he thinks disclosure damaged the program. So far, reporting on his comments is limited to a single publication that supports this administration faithfully. If Kean is outraged like the president, he has had plenty of opportunity to express that outrage, but has not.
This isn't chemistry, or rocket science. If terrorists did not know that we were monitoring international banking transactions, then disclosure has given them a heads-up.
I have a hard time believing they did not know this. I did, and I'm not a terrorist.
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Personally, I think the NYT is a POS for publishing that story. It did nothing to help, and can only harm the security of the country. It is especially hypocritical for them to have supported the very same program in their editorial in late Sept. 2001. Perhaps there was some detail of the program that was divulged, but I don't know. I do have to agree with you, however, that terrorists would not have to look real hard to find information on the Internet about bank monitoring programs. Take a look at
this PDF document on the US Treasury web site as an example.