Boston Globe
Public records -- including government documents posted on the Internet, congressional testimony, guidelines for bank examiners, and even an executive order President Bush signed in September 2001 -- reveal how US authorities have openly sought new tools to track terrorist financing since 2001, reports
Bryan Bender. Former White House counterterrorism official
Roger Cressey says: "There have been public references to SWIFT before. The White House is overreaching when they say [the New York Times committed] a crime against the war on terror. It has been in the public domain before." || Related
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"What's really been exposed in this case isn't entirely clear" (ChiTrib)
