nytimes.com — The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.
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skoredJan 13, 2007
This seems to be the understatement of the year: Carl Kropf, a spokesman for the director of national intelligence, said intelligence agencies like the C.I.A. used the letters on only a ?limited basis.?
Closed AccountJan 14, 2007
If we get hit again it will be because people like you and your attitudes make America hated.Your arrogance and ideas of manifest destiny only inflame people.Yes, they are assh**es -- but instead of leaving them alone you must keep pushing them...Sad thing is that all this has nothing to do with our welfare but more so the health of multi-nationals that could care less about you and whom pay very little or nothing to the US government in taxation.When the world is awash in oil and OPEC is thinking about switching to the Euro its important to keep those pumps shut. By doing so, however, we are creating a generation of haters that saw their parents killed by our cluster bombs. They are the ones that will attack in ten years. And to think that if we had just spent this HALF A TRILLION on making diesel autos run on vegetable oil or creating solar-mirror-to-steam-turbine farms in the US southwest desert we could have cut oil use drastically...so sad
urbancommandoJan 14, 2007
WTF? Does this article even mention Bush? The man can't even take a sip of f**king coffee without it warranting his impeachment.The other day I read an article about Bush donating money to a library and some how the article was turned into an article about how Bush did this or that in Iraq.I'm not saying the man is a god or is always correct, but don't pin everything that happens on him. Next thing I know I will be hearing Bush single handedly caused global warming.
urbancommandoJan 14, 2007
@goat2 blind anything is misinformed and ignorant.
tubatechnoJan 15, 2007
"is it just me or do these kinds of headlines come, say, about 5 years too late? Seriously, I thought everyone heard about the government snooping on all our financial and internet data back then. (then again, I live in the UK so this stuff has been going on for much longer)"Diggers are notorious for having short politic interests. They think politics started when they were born...
williamdyerJan 15, 2007
It's time we started jacking up Big Brother and the people who run it.
williamdyerJan 15, 2007
Holy s**t, is JJ finally getting the idea that the government is NOT our friend?