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US Treasury Secretary John Snow has defended a secret programme which has been tracking international money transactions for nearly five years.
"This programme is an effective weapon in the larger war on terror," he said.
The scheme, which has sifted huge amounts of data from an international banking consortium, was revealed by the New York Times newspaper on Friday.
The US treasury says the programme was strictly confined to the records of suspected foreign terrorists.
Although there is no direct connection, the programme has echoes of a recently revealed US surveillance programme in which millions of international and domestic phone calls and e-mails were monitored, correspondents say.
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This - among other procedures - is part of intelligence services' activities.
Since it has been lasting for decades, there is not much field for sensation.
The questions :
- how is that possible some irresponsible guys have access to some sensitive informations
- what the publisher has achieved
In both cases, private factors overcame the case itself. Stupidity rules, so far.