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Originally Posted by MaggieL

And he's out there trying to take a moderate position ahead of the chairman of the House Homeland Security Comittee who's calling for indictments and prosecution.

Why bother getting one's hand dirty when theres always a dog on a leash willing to do it for you.

GW is still the leader of the party. It's really not hard to set up a good cop, bad cop and let the other guy look like the hardass. Mind you, GW probably couldn't do it, but Rove sure could.

So if you think it's "dirty work" I guess you won't want a special prosecutor a la Fitzgerald appointed *this* time...

Sad to see present-day "journalists" in the MSM going through the cargo-cult motions trying to re-create Woodward/Bernstein/Ellsberg. But this isn't Vietnam and Bush isn't Nixon, no matter how many are smitten with nostalgia envy. "Always perfectly prepared to fight the previous war..."

True, Nixon is a Cub scout by comparison.

It looks like Canada will now be a center of money transfer scrutiny.

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Toronto will become the permanent home to a global organization aiming to combat international money laundering and terrorist financing, the federal government announced Friday.

The stated purpose is;

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"This government has announced significant new measures to help increase Canada’s capability to detect and respond to a potential terrorist attack," said Day. "Whether it is strengthening our own laws, enhancing transportation and border security, working with international allies or combating the crime of terrorist financing, we are taking action to protect Canadians."

Maybe the Canadian government may not want any surprises from US investigations.

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The finance minister, who stressed that Canadians who conduct overseas banking are subject to foreign government scrutiny, said the issue involves balancing the needs of privacy and law enforcement.

Canada's privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, recently called an inquiry into whether Canadian transactions were probed as part of a U.S. financial monitoring program.

That link is members only.:(

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

And just for the record, the NYT itself is now unconvinced that it should have done what it did.

It basically says it is still a close call and the only reason not to publish is because the program might be legal and there was no proof of abuse.

Of course this begs the question of how they would find out about abuse of a program they were lucky to even discover existed.

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

Sad to see present-day "journalists" in the MSM going through the cargo-cult motions trying to re-create Woodward/Bernstein/Ellsberg.

This is actually very clever writing even if we totally disagree on Bush. :)

did someone say they needed one of these?