Pentagon viewing Americans' bank records... do you agree with this?

Question

The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.

The C.I.A. has also been issuing what are known as national security letters to gain access to financial records from American companies, though it has done so only rarely, intelligence officials say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/washington/14spy.html?ei=5065&en=d84fecd8f4b5e4cf&ex=1169355600&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070114/D8ML1VU01.html

Answer 1

I don't have a problem with it. I'm not doing anything wrong.

Every credit-giving organization in the world can see your bank records, so what's one more?

Answer 2

i think of that some issues that would desire to not be disclosed. i don't know with regards to the variety of deaths. yet you sited one time the place they only have been off by 900 as adversarial to a million,a hundred. I do think of each and every infantrymen dying might desire to be venerated and concept-approximately an incredible sacrifice. notwithstanding if, i think of there is so lots extra deception happening interior the information. The media will checklist the deaths popular. they have not executed this in the different conflict and there have been many extra deaths in maximum of our previous wars. Many interior the media and the democratic occasion desire the infantrymen deaths reported not because of the fact they desire the actuality available. they're doing it for propaganda motives to smear Bush.

Answer 3

Shows what the "Bush Haters" know, this law was passed in the late 80's....long before Bush was in office. LOL, so blinded by what the Libs spout off 24/7.
Oh, and by the way, if you pay child support in any of the 50 states, the Child Support Enforcement Offices nationwide do the same thing.

Answer 4

It's interesting.

Wingnuts scream they're ready to die for their country, failing to understand that America is the constitution, not their local McDonalds.

But then they say they'd gladly give up the freedoms that make America the greatest nation on earth to prevent themselves from dying in some terrorist attack. They talk big, but really are cowards.

You have to decide if you'll live for freedom or die as a slave.

Answer 5

Sounds like the Talon program...another program out of the Pentagon, also a domestic "intelligence" gathering program.

Answer 6

NO I CERTAINLY DO NOT, that is just another Constitution that their breaking , but they have broke so many , what's one more.
We have no freedom of any nature, you afraid to walk down the street you may be breaking a new law Bush dreamed up. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, and Rice need to let us check theirs, since they've been in office or out. Sure a lot of billions missing or as they say got lost, I was just wondering, HHMMNNN.

Answer 7

Difficult question. How do we weigh the values of protection of our democratic rights as opposed to protection against terror attacks?As much as I'm opposed to the Bush Administration and all it stands for, I can understand the the reason for this access in cases where their is due cause for suspicion.

Answer 8

There is so much money laundering going on in this country, especially by anti-Americans and terrorists, it is about time the Government checks bank records and gets our security in check.

Answer 9

I think if it catches terrorists and they can use my constant overdrafting of checking account and my over-limit of credit cards, more power to them.
If you think most people's piddling bank records hold some fascination for the CIA, guess again.
They really are after bigger fish than you unless you are a Columbian drug lord's front..

Answer 10

Can anyone say... Soviet union? Seems like Bush has his own little brand of communism..... Goodbye freedom in America.

This is just the beginning.