Quote Originally Posted by DEVELISH
What the US - no wait - the Bush administration did was tab into another continents banking information system without having proper legitimation to do so. Just because some texan Schmock said "hello, we are the US, resistance is futile - will be assimilated" is also no proper way of aproaching a company NOR is this "legitimatin" enough for handing over sensitive data.

I am also not amused of the data handling by SWIFT since Belgium has Dataprotection Laws and the EU has Dataprotection laws as well (you might have heared that the EU called the submission of passenger data flying over or to US terreroy illegitimate).
Yes I find it interesting that the EU is so big on privacy yet they let this happen without so much as a peep to let their citizens know it was going on.


Quote Originally Posted by DEVELISH
Why doesn't the Bush Administration disclose which "terrorists" they caught or how much money they froze (or assimilated into the war-funds)? They happily disclosed pictures of dead soldiers and terrorists eventhou this was against international rules. Oh yeah - It might be because the US took a step away from the Geneve Conventions which regulates treatments of humans in war. No Rules Apply....
Why can an administration rectify each and everything with "war on terror"?
They haven't disclosed any "catches" because their haven't been any significant ones I'm sure.

In 5 years using this "tool" they haven't caught Bin Laden. Just another neo conservative government taking away rights by using fear to scare people into submission. I'm seriously surprised that in the new millenium this has worked! They must all be smoking their cigars giggling at how much they've gotten away with and they are right, we've all turned into a bunch of whining sheep IMHO