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Quote by: rmnunez Marconious, from where I see it it seems more like an agenda-driven media resucitating an old story, as you note, the US government has been talking about tracking terrorists' financial transactions for a long time, I think there's even some Rumsfeld quote on great success with this. As I posted, relevant resolutions called for sharing financial information to track potentially terrorist activity go back to the first week post-911, so it is old news.
This story didn't resonate back then and doesn't elicit much public debate again, other than to highlight the perfidy of the NYT. |
The NYT thought that it would be interesting to their readers so they printed it, as has always been the way of news.
I was far more disturbed by calls to punish the NYT for reporting on a story that harms no one, except possibly some politicians. The freedom of the press was not created to make politicians look good and raise poll numbers.
The reaction of those who are saying that what they did was wrong also proves that this was worthy of print since many apparently didnt know about the program or that the terrorists have already switched to different methods to move their money.