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And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Oops, they did it again. The disclosure of this program is disgraceful. For a newspaper to publish

it does great harm to the United States of America. President Bush, Vice President Cheney,

and most Republicans in Congress are angry at the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times,

and the Wall Street Journal, but mostly the New York Times, for writing a front-page piece offering details of the

program by which the government tracks terrorists by following their money. Critics say that the

media have put lives at risk because, as Ohio Republican Mike Oxley put it, what's the average

terrorist to think? He's going to find a different way to move his money around. That's what he's going to do.

What the Times and the other news outlets reported was that the government was tracking the

global banking industry about $6 trillion daily through a Belgian cooperative called

Swift. This despite the urges of White House officials who claimed that disclosure could jeopardize the program's effectiveness.

On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted along party lines to pass a non-binding resolution expecting, quote,

the cooperation of all news media organizations in protecting the lives of Americans and the capability of the government to

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