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Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror — 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 …
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Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Mining Bank Transfer Data in Anti-Terror Effort — WASHINGTON — The U.S. government, without the knowledge of many banks and their customers, has engaged for years in a secret effort to track terrorist financing by reviewing confidential information on transfers of money between banks worldwide.
Justin Bachman / Associated Press:
Media Refuses to Hold Surveillance Story — The Bush administration and The New York Times are again at odds over national security, this time with new reports of a broad government effort to track global financial transfers. — The newspaper, which in December broke news of an effort …
Michelle Malkin:
NYTIMES BLABBERMOUTHS STRIKE AGAIN — ***update: The Los Angeles Times piles on and flaps its mouth, too...The story is the blabbermouth media's refusal to act responsibly and learn when to shut up...*** — Dammit. These people don't know when to stop.
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:New York Times Publishes Classified Details of Legal and (Formerly) …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:NYT Reveals Secret Banking Anti-Terrorist Program
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CNN:
FBI arrests 7 in domestic terrorism probe — Raids being conducted in Miami area — WASHINGTON (CNN) — FBI agents were raiding sites in Miami, Florida, on Thursday in connection with a domestic terrorism investigation, law enforcement sources said. — Officials said no weapons …
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CNN:
Indictment: Suspects wanted to 'kill all the devils we can' — Terror plot targeted Chicago's Sears Tower — MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — A federal indictment against seven men revealed Friday details of what the government said was a plan intended to "kill all the devils we can."
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Kelli Kennedy / Associated Press:
Official: 7 arrested in Sears Tower plot — MIAMI - Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., including the FBI office here, a federal law enforcement official said.
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Evan Benn / Miami Herald:
Anti-terror arrests made in Miami raid — FBI agents backed by state and local law enforcement cordoned off an area of Liberty City and made several arrests on Thursday as part of what U.S. officials called a significant terror-related investigation. — There was no immediate threat to Miami, officials said.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: FBI stages terror raid in Miami (Update: ABC says plan was to bomb Sears Tower) (Update: "Jihad") — Just across on CNN. Early reports say the area's flooded with agents. Six to eight suspects are thought to have been arrested, and they're not believed to be Muslim.
Times of London:
Peace deal offers Iraq insurgents an amnesty — From Ned Parker in Baghdad and Tom Baldwin — THE Iraqi Government will announce a sweeping peace plan as early as Sunday in a last-ditch effort to end the Sunni insurgency that has taken the country to the brink of civil war.
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Austin Bay Blog:
Iran versus Iraq/the Iraqi government's peace offer to the Sunnis — Wretchard at the Belmont Club examines GEN Casey's decision to highlight Iran's role in the Iraqi insurgency. He also notes a new "peace feeler" (including an amnesty offer) from the Iraqi government to the Sunni holdouts.
Susan Schmidt / Washington Post:
Senate's Abramoff Report Disputes Rep. Ney — Indian Affairs Panel Cites Lobbyist Abuse of Tax Exemptions — In the fall of 2004, Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) told Senate investigators that he was unfamiliar with a Texas Indian tribe represented by lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Philip Shenon / New York Times:Senate Report Lists Lobbyist's Payments to Ex-Leader of Christian Coalition
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Lee Siegel / The New Republic:
BLOG THIS: — In response to Jason Zengerle's most recent post on The Plank—"Hope you're not tired of this Kos stuff"—no, I for one am definitely not tired of Zengerle's artful and honest exposure of someone who, more and more, seems to represent the purest, most classical strain of hypocrisy.
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Polls, Pundits and Pols — (June 22, 2006) — The new efforts by Republicans in Congress, and in the media, to use Iraq to their advantage by branding Democrats as favoring a "cut-and-run'" policy, has received wide coverage in the past week. Often pundits, and even reporters …
Justin Gillis / Washington Post:
New Fuel Source Grows on the Prairie — With Oil Prices Up, Biomass Looks More Feasible — IMPERIAL, Neb. — Just outside this town in the middle of the great American prairie, 37 miles from the nearest traffic light, stands a huge pile of cornstalks and leaves.
Amir Taheri / Jerusalem Post:
Eye of the Storm: Kuwait makes history — Next week, Kuwaitis will go to the polls to elect a new National Assembly which will, in turn, approve a new prime minister and cabinet. — The Kuwaitis will be making history for a number of reasons. This is the first election in which women …
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