U.S. Seeks Access to Bank Records to Deter Terror

The Bush regime just doesn't know when to quit!! Not only is the Patriot Act a serious infringement on the privacy of the American people where they can conduct secret searches on your home, and examine library records to see what your reading, they now claim they need your bank records......all this in the name of deterring terrorism. The New York Times reports: The Bush administration is developing a plan to give the government access to possibly hundreds of millions of international banking records in an effort to trace and deter terrorist financing, even as many bankers say they already feel besieged by government antiterrorism rules that they consider overly burdensome. The initiative, as conceived by a working group within the Treasury Department, would vastly expand the government's database of financial transactions by gaining access to logs of international wire transfers into and out of American banks. Such overseas transactions were used by the Sept. 11 hijackers to wire more than $130,000, officials said, and are still believed to be vulnerable to terrorist financiers. MORE.....