Tuesday, July 18, 2006

National Security Breached Again

"Left-leaning blog No Quarter has some observations about a breach he feels was far more damaging than the SWIFT revelations:
Let's start with the revelation that the CIA and the FBI have been given access to Western Union data and have used this information to track and disrupt several terrorist networks. Take a look at page 231-233, where Suskind details how the Western Union data was passed to the Israelies and used to track operatives of Palestinain Islamic Jihad (PIJ). According to Suskind, a Western Union official gave the FBI info about a PIJ transaction in April 2003:
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Even to me this does look to be over the top, why in the world would a story contain this kind of information? until I find out different I'm with you on this one.

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