’)It’s all about getting the base upset to help the right win the election this fall. Froomkin excerpts this relevant information in his column today.
On MSNBC, Chris Matthews spoke with Ron Suskind, author of the new book “The One Percent Doctrine.” Matthews noted that Suskind specifically wrote in his book that Al Qaeda got wise to electronic transfer surveillance after a while.
Matthews: “So in other words, the bad guys figured out how we were catching them.”
Suskind: “Right, it’s a process of deduction. After a while, you catch enough of them, they’re not idiots. They say, ‘Well, we can’t do the things we were doing.’ They’re not leaving electronic trails like they were.’ “
Once again, the right wing plays the rubes for the suckers they are.
The Bush Administration won’t prosecute it because there’s no law breaking and they’ve got no case. It’s all just theater for the war nerds.
Maybe soon, domestic criminals will get wise to the fact that police may be tapping their phones. After that, tapping phones will be of no value!
So Oliver Willis, TomY, and the NYT all know for a fact that the SWIFT operation was no longer of any use. Thank goodness we have all of you deciding what we should be doing to catch or kill terrorists! As Frameone would say…idiots.
Hey, I’m sure Gonzalez will charge the NYT with treason if it’s as clear-cut as (giggle) the Powerline guys (giggle) and Intapundit (snicker) and Michelle Malkin so confidently insist.
What is Suskind’s security clearance level? Briefed in on TS code word? Nooooo! Sec Snow is. He is the man legally accountable. He says:
“You have defended your decision to compromise this program by asserting that “terror financiers know” our methods for tracking their funds and have already moved to other methods to send money. The fact that your editors believe themselves to be qualified to assess how terrorists are moving money betrays a breathtaking arrogance and a deep misunderstanding of this program and how it works. While terrorists are relying more heavily than before on cumbersome methods to move money, such as cash couriers, we have continued to see them using the formal financial system, which has made this particular program incredibly valuable.”
Yeah, go with Matthews’ TV guy. Fits your agenda.
Dugger, the man in charge says its “incredibly valuable”
How about it, TomY…was the SWIFT program no longer of any use?
“No value.” “Fake.”
Funny, here is what the NYT itself had to say:
I wonder, did the people who sent out the DNC talking points faxes even read the Times article?
Get ready for this one: “Osama Bin Laden had no real value. He was only a figurehead, not a real leader.”
The attack on Bali was an attack on Australians, commonly considered by most rational people to be an ally of ours.
Maybe soon, domestic criminals will get wise to the fact that police may be tapping their phones. After that, tapping phones will be of no value!
Hahahahahahaaaaaa……Good one.
This is such a joke. Oliver and Co. bitch and moan like little girls that the Bush administration isn’t doing anything to get terrorists or prevent terrorist attacks (Oliver falls back on his “around the world” argument while refusing to address the fact that United States and our installations around the world have been terror attack free and that attack at a nightclub in Bali is an “attack on the west.” Even though Bali is in the Far East.). A program such as this obviously is helping, and the NY Times decides to just throw fucking caution to the wind and tell the world.
Now we have to read and listen to these same simps telling us that revealing the program was in place is no big deal because the terrorists were hip to it anyway.
It’s hard to imagine anybody could be so obtuse. But apparently it is another sympton of BDS.
oh for christ sakes oliver
we have not had an attack on america since 9/11. you leftists have to resort to “6 degrees of separation” tactics to try to draw the US into it.Bush’s tactics have worked for 5 years now, and no amount of BDS or “elephant rock” analogies will change it.
In spite of the lefties best attempts, America remains safe.
drpedro,
“we have not had an attack on america since 9/11. you leftists have to resort to 6 degrees of separation tactics to try to draw the US into it.Bush s tactics have worked for 5 years now, and no amount of BDS or elephant rock analogies will change it.”
The problem with this is that we don’t know that Bush’s tactics have worked, or to be more specific, whether another attack would have occurred had these tactics not been utilized (in other words, correlation v. causation). Also, the first WTC attack took place in 1993, so I at least have no idea what, if any, timetable terrorist organizations are operating under.
I think about it in terms of the precautions taken in the months/years leading up to Y2K. Certainly, no major, Earth-shattering disasters came to pass, but we may well never know whether the disasters would have occurred otherwise.
pedro:
we have not had an attack on america since 9/11. you leftists have to resort to 6 degrees of separation tactics to try to draw the US into it.Bush s tactics have worked for 5 years now, and no amount of BDS or elephant rock analogies will change it.
No, thankfully we have not. But the rest of the policy, i.e. invading countries that did not attack or threaten us has nothing to do with it. Furthermore, I just don’t buy into the line that we are fighting them over there so we dont have to fight them over here. Ask the folks in GB and Spain how they feel about it.