The furor over New York Times reporting on international banking monitors via the Belgium SWIFT system are just blow-hards spitting dust into the wind.
If this was such a double-secret burn-before-reading program, then why did I learned of this "classified" method two years before GwB himself announced "his" initiative a few short months after 9-11 and four years before his Treasury Dept takes a gaggle of reporters overseas just to strut the money-tracking acumen "they" created...
These goats gloat when the "leak" is on their to-do list, but clutch chest and fein mortal wounds to the sheep when "leaks" aren't.
Maybe Steve Colbert can start minting the political version of an Oscar.
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