Rep. Seeks Charges Against Papers Terror Reporting
June 25, 2006 by Homeland Security NTARC News
Filed under Homeland Security News
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.
Rep. Peter King cited The New York Times in particular for publishing a story last week that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records.
