America's Anger Attacks

Richard Marsden, The Business of Emotions

...The President and Vice-President are angry too, especially yesterday. They are angry at the New York Times for daring to print a story which revealed the Bush administration's secret program of financial surveillance, ostensibly aimed at detecting transactions among suspected terrorists. The government used subpoenas to compel the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) to allow it access to its records of transactions involving 7,800 financial institutions around the world. This nicely compliments the U.S. surveillance of millions of international and domestic phone calls and e-mails...

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