NYT & Banking Data Distraction

Here we go again. Another spying-on-us tale to gasp and tsk-tsk and get the knickers in a knot. A knot that will have as much impact and relevance as did Wilson-Plame and Fitzmas. Or al-Zarqawi's dead and resurrected and dead again saga.

The tale will die faster than the too stupid to even argue headlines for or against torture. Quicker than Judy Liar Miller in the spotlight for going to jail to protect her source before giving up the name of her source to the slightly longer-lasting hero Patrick Fitzmas who has not and will not and never intended to deliver the goods (Cheney or Rove or Bush heads on a platter).

Because - it comes from the same NYT, employers of Judy Liar Miller, whose "exclusives" on WMD came from Ahmad Chalabi who everyone with one eye and half a brain knew was also a liar.

The same NYT who aided and abetted the BushCo case for war.

The same NYT who "broke" the warrantless surveillance of phone calls and e-mails into and out of the U.S., which also lasted slightly longer than a headline.

This week, the used-to-lie NYT is the hero under fire because the newspaper is attacked and accused of compromising national security when it exposed a Treasury Department program that secretly monitors worldwide money transfers - to track terrorist financing.

The "government" monitored Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications. SWIFT is a dedicated computer network to support funds transfer messages internationally between member banks world-wide. SWIFT's global network handles approximately 3.5 million messages daily with an average daily transaction of several trillion US dollars.

Geeze, where does the NYT get all this information to expose since there really is no media, only government propaganda apparatus.

And, none other than Arlen Specter, good old JFK magic-bullet boy, is protecting the nation, busy at work on bill S.2453 which would "provide the president with the means to protect against terrorism without compromising the very civil liberties he seeks to safeguard."

Come on people – the US government, decades ago, degenerated into a large group of highly-bribed pathological liars who can barely remember their lines and perform appropriately without lots of rehearsal.

The elite thugs running the theater are casting for much bigger fish than we the people, if they're casting at all. They've always monitored your barely break even account down at First State. Your "very civil liberties" are all safe as long as you don't rile up the niggers on the plantation.

Dammit I knew my transfers to Singapore and Belgium weren't secure.