June 26, 2006
KARL IS BACK, BABY, AND BETTER THAN EVER
Bush slams leak of terror finance story (Terence Hunt, AP, 6/26/06)
President Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a program to secretly monitor the financial transactions of suspected terrorists. "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful," he said.If this leak wasn't a Rove operation, it ought to have been. Posted by David Cohen at June 26, 2006 1:49 PM"For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America," Bush said, jabbing his finger for emphasis. He said the disclosure of the program "makes it harder to win this war on terror."
The program has been going on since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. It was disclosed last week by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
Hugh Hewitt seems to be suggesting that it was only the NYT and the LAT that published the story. I also saw the story on the front page of the WSJ ... does anyone know definitively which paper broke the story ... in other words, sabotaged the program?
Posted by: JD at June 26, 2006 7:47 PMI believe that after it became clear that the NYT and LAT were going to publish, Treasury Department officials agreed to an interview on the record with the WSJ.
Posted by: David Cohen at June 26, 2006 8:03 PM