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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (63755)	6/26/2006 3:27:37 PM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

You are very much mistaken if you think the NYT, LAT and WSJ stories on financial surveillance were disclosing something previously unknown. In fact -- not that facts seem to matter in these "discussions" -- the US SWIFT program was so well known among counter-terrorism and security cultists that reference was made to it in UN annual reports. It has been discussed publicly since 2002: “The settlement of international transactions is usually handled through correspondent banking relationships or large-value message and payment systems, such as the SWIFT, Fedwire or CHIPS systems in the United States of America. Such international clearance centres are critical to processing international banking transactions and are rich with payment information. The United States has begun to apply new monitoring techniques to spot and verify suspicious transactions. The Group recommends the adoption of similar mechanisms by other countries.” daccessdds.un.org