SWIFT Banking America

After the NY Times article revealing the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Communication) program was published, Bush, Cheney and the rest of the Potemkin Party openly chastised the Times for revealing a key tool in the war on terror. Representative Peter King demanded that the NY Times be charged under the Espionage Act. The Potemkins stated that now the terrorists will know that their finances are being tracked. Oh, thou doth protest too much.

This reaction from the Potemkins even illicited laughter from Tom Brokaw. And a Boston Globe interview with Victor D. Comras , a former US diplomat, demonstrated the obvious. Comras oversaw efforts at the United Nations to improve international measures to combat terror financing. Comras said: "Unless they were pretty dumb, they had to assume their transactions were being monitored... We have spent the last four years bragging how effective we have been in tracking terrorist financing."

To add to this, the clandestive, super duper, double, triple, top secret SWIFT has it's own website! It also has it's own monthly magazine! Thankfully our Edward R. Murrow- Keith Olbermann - uncovered both the website and the magazine, but he also aired the many video clips of Bush bragging about the 'bank tapping' of terrorists.

How dare the Times report on a program that the president has mentioned again and again and again. Exactly why did Bush and Cheney react so passionately about this article? Could it be that this administration isn't bank tapping terrorists, but rather Americans. More directly, Americans donating to Moveon.org or that other terrorist organization (according to the NSA) PETA!? Now exactly who is guilty of treason?