Congress- Resolved: Do As The President Says, Not As He Does

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Terror Tracking Report Prompts Backlash In US Congress

By John Godfrey, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/149092131?

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Republicans plan Thursdsay to bring to the U.S. House floor a non-binding resolution warning media outlets that they are "expected" not to disclose classified information such as the existence of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has authored his own non-binding resolution calling on the Justice Department to "vigorously and tirelessly investigate and prosecute" unauthorized leaks to the media.

The resolutions come in response to news reports disclosing the Bush administration's Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, a special bank surveillance program to track terrorist financing.

Some terrorist financing experts say the White House is overreacting.

The Bush Administration has bragged for years that it is tracking terrorist finances. And, a 2002 advisory group to the U.N. Security Council specifically mentioned that the U.S. had already begun to tap the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication network for terrorist financing information.

[gademocrat7]

1. This group of rethugs are really over the top.

Where does it end? Hopefully in November.

[RoseMead]

3. I don't know

but every journalist in the country needs to stand up to this crap. This is a non-binding resolution, it is meaningless other than as intimidation.

[librechik]

2. "such as the existence of the Terrorist Finance Program"????????????

EVERYBODY KNEW ABOUT THIS PROGRAM!!!!!!!!

It WAS NOT CLASSIFIED!!!!!!

NOBODY IS OPPOSED TO THIS PROGRAM!!!!!


REPUBLICANS: WRONG AGAIN!!!!!!!

All these cowards do is whine about not getting their way, even when they get it.