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US spying operation exposed :Peter King calls for SWIFT justice

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Monday June 26, 2006 17:28author by tom eile

Senator Peter King ,chairman of the US House of Representatives' homeland security committee and long time friend of the Irish peace process has called for the prosecution of “treasonous” New York Times editors and journalists for reporting details of a huge US government spying operation. Since September 11 2001 the US Treasury Department has been secretly collecting financial data from the world’s largest financial communications network—the Belgium-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT.

see :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,180581....html
background:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jun2006/spy-j24.shtml

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author by Peter Nolanpublication date Sat Jul 01, 2006 23:59author address author phone

He's a member of the House, so he's Representative King.

Thanks for the correction
author by tom eilepublication date Sun Jul 02, 2006 15:31author address author phone

The NYT has always supported the Iraqi war , but for King and the neo-cons critical support is not good enough .
see:
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005434.htm
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/27/pio_liberal...p.php

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