Treason by any other name..

WASHINGTON: President George W.Bush has branded the US news media “disgraceful” for disclosing a secret government program to monitor international finances and track terrorist funding.

The New York Times reported on Friday that the US Government had secretly monitored thousands of international banking transactions since the attacks on New York and Washington in order to track suspected terrorists.

The newspaper refused government requests not to publish the story, prompting other major media to follow with their own reports.

I’m definitely with George here but then I’m old fashioned enough to think that aiding and abetting the enemy in war time is treason and perpetrators of such acts should be at least incarcerated for the duration. Like Hicks. Some Democrats have criticised the program as another step in an aggressive Bush administration expansion of executive-branch powers. But US officials claim its database has provided valuable information about ties between suspected terrorists and groups financing them. And a result closer to home;

It has also reportedly led to the capture of al-Qa’ida operative Riduan Isamuddin Hambali, believed to have planned the 2002 bombings in Bali.

The Left will still argue argue against it even though the programme brought results; on the basis that anything that puts Bush in a bad light must be supported.