--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/11/06 12:13:47 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [MDixon wrote:] > > All the programs the Bush Administration was using like the NSA > > and Banking program of following money transactions were used > > in Great Britain to bust them. > > You know all these details? > > No, not all. But these were covered yesterday on many different > news stories on NBC, CNBC, CNN, and FOX. The British had been > watching these 24 and I think they said others for quite some time > and they had been using the same program the NSA has been running > and also observing their banking transactions between Great Britain > and Pakistan and some other countries. The United States had > offered the British information on this group in the past two weeks > also. I'm just glad the New York Times didn't hear about this > before the bust.
An update on this. According to a story in today's Washington Post, neither the Brits nor the Americans utilized a warrantless wiretapping program to track down the terrorist plotters: http://tinyurl.com/o2p2e So all the right-wing ranting and raving about how these arrests showed that warrantless wiretrapping was essential to prevent terrorist attacks was a complete crock: we do NOT have to choose between the rule of law and fighting terrorism. We do NOT have to give the executive unlimited, unrestrained power in order to be protected. The arrests also explode another right-wing myth, that what the Times revealed about the warrantless eavesdropping program damaged national security by letting terrorists know they were being surveilled, and that they would immediately change the way they communicated so they couldn't be detected. And once again, just for the record: Republican attempts to mislead and deceive the voters notwithstanding, Democrats do NOT oppose secret wiretapping or money-tracking in the interests of national security. To the contrary, they *advocate* these measures as long as there is oversight--as there was in the case of the British bombers. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
