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Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/wa...html?th&emc=th
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN
Published: June 23, 2006
WASHINGTON, June 22 — Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials

Why don't our special forces just start jack-stepping now?

Also, what is to stop those doing this from practicing insider trading? No one would know and there would be no way to track it.

If you post a link don't post the entire fuckin article. Christ

Don't you think you could have been a bit more polite about that?

Why yes, yes I do. Thank you

And Again...
Privacy rules broken at border, audit finds

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I call Godwin's Law.

There is nothing remotely mild to my dislike or off-hand to my comparison. The similarities are exact.

Then they aren't similarities. ;-)

Look...simply claiming "it's true" doesn't exempt you from Godwin's Law. Everybody who violates Godwin's Law is willing to swear on a stack of ${book} that they're "just being accurate".

Besides, it's either "goose-stepping" or "jack-booted".

How so? The Nazis weren't the only jack booted, goose stepping, totalitarian regime to abuse their citizenry.
I don't see a valid Godwin's without a specific reference to the Nazis.:confused:

I say let him go with a warning this time, and a two beer penalty (his cooler) for conjoining jackboot/goosestep with an expired poetic license.

Well, you wouldn't, since you agree with him...this is that "just being accurate" thing I was referring to. And he affirmed that that's what he meant, too.

Must be innocent because he didn't use the N-word, eh? How "nuanced".

Exactly where did I say I agreed with him? :eyebrow:

On every other post on the "Bush is Big Brother" meme. Are you claiming you don't agree with him, or just waving a red herring?

Interesting image.:D

However, stating that Bruce is giving someone a free pass just because he agrees with them is also a 'red herring'. You are assigning an unproven motive in an attempt to shift debate away from the merit of the original argument.