When in doubt, ask if we’ve ever thought about moving to Cuba

Posted by Mary Mancini on July 3, 2006 under Uncategorized |

Our last caller this morning couldn’t defend his position on the “treasonous” New York Times adeptly enough so he resorted to asking if we’ve ever thought about moving to Cuba. The game is: when in doubt, attack the patriotism of the one who disagrees with you. Tired, I know.

So here’s the New York Times article about the Bush administration sifting through bank records. And here is the same information printed (since 2001) on the White House’s web site. It is a secret that the terrorists already knew.

What we didn’t know, and what the NY Times thankfully clued us in on, is that as much as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Snow want you to believe that the story is about the leaking of classified information, it is not. The story is that your government is circumventing the proper channels to get the information it wants.* It’s a power grab by an Executive branch who do not believe in the fundamental building blocks of our Republic - checks and balances. Are they looking for information about terrorists? About you? About the opposition party? Who knows?

If this doesn’t set off alarm bells, if you’re on the side that trusts the Bush administration to “do the right thing,” please read the NY Times article and in every place where the name “Bush” or “Cheney” appears, replace it with “Clinton” or “Gore.”

Now how do you feel about it?

*”The program, however, is a significant departure from typical practice in how the government acquires Americans’ financial records. Treasury officials did not seek individual court-approved warrants or subpoenas to examine specific transactions, instead relying on broad administrative subpoenas for millions of records from the cooperative, known as Swift.”

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