Monday, June 26, 2006

bush is mad that more of his illegal activities were exposed

Bush slams leak of terror finance story
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a secret anti-terrorism program that taps into an immense international database of confidential financial records. "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful," he said.

"For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America," Bush said. He said the disclosure of the program "makes it harder to win this war on terror."

The program has been going on since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. It was disclosed last week by several news organizations.

Using broad government subpoenas, the program allows U.S. counterterrorism analysts to obtain financial information from a vast database maintained by a company based in Belgium. It routes about 11 million financial transactions daily among 7,800 banks and other financial institutions in 200 countries.

"Congress was briefed and what we did was fully authorized under the law," Bush said, talking with reporters in the Roosevelt Room after meeting with groups that support U.S. troops in Iraq.

"We're at war with a bunch of people who want to hurt the United States of America," the president said. "What we were doing was the right thing."


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Doesn't he sound like a petulant 6 year old when he's angry?
Does he really believe that the terrorists are as dumb as he thinks the American public is? Does he think that they don't know that our government is watching them?
Or, more likely, this hurts his "war on terrorism" because now the "terrorists" and the American public all know that bush is no better than the dictators he claims to be fighting.